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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business

For example, one earthquake engineer, Stuart, had a career breakthrough when he joined a large structural investigation project led by a team of senior partners in his firm. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases.

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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

Scalability Issues: Large projects involving multiple consultants, like enterprise level technology implementation, will be difficult to effectively execute through this model. Mudassar Shaikh is an engineer at heart, management consultant by profession, entrepreneur by spirit, and student by essence.