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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. We recently worked with a high-growth medical device company that makes sophisticated hardware and software systems. Jaclyn Kates. Kates Kesler, part of Accenture.

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Prepare Your Facility Relocation Project Team for a Productive Site Assessment

PM Alliance

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? Mobilize internal subject matter experts, from production line supervisors to maintenance personnel and engineers. Facility relocation projects can be long and complex efforts.

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Keeping Your Strategy Meetings Focused on the Long Term

Harvard Business

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. And a very visible acquisition under Mauricio’s leadership is struggling. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises. Stu Heinecke.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture. Only after a lot of stakeholder management and leadership intervention did the pilot get back on track.

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How to Present to Executives

Prudent Pedal

You should have done much research, questioning, probing and testing of your prospect or leadership team before formulating your recommendations. Don’t waste executives’ time because you’re operating on outdated information. Executives drive the engine, but you control the track switches. This is not a lecture. next steps.

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Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Sustaining Results Achieved Through the Lean Methodology. Sensitivity to operations. Creating greater value requires a multi-pronged approach.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. I discovered management consulting through this internship.