Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A forward-looking ESG strategy deepens customer relationships and loyalty, improves the ability to attract and retain talent, reduces regulatory risk, increases the ability to attract capital, and results in increased resilience driven by a more nuanced understanding of stakeholder expectations. .

Case Study 78

Case Study Case Studies Enterprise Leadership 78

Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

We used the STAR model to help them take a holistic and practical approach to thinking through how to build an enterprise capability. . Center-led global team provides integration mechanisms, including common processes and tools, and clear decision guardrails to be utilized across the enterprise. . STAR model component .

Management 65

Management Enterprise Metrics Change Management 65

Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

A forward-looking ESG strategy deepens customer relationships and loyalty, improves the ability to attract and retain talent, reduces regulatory risk, increases the ability to attract capital, and results in increased resilience, driven by a more nuanced understanding of stakeholder expectations. Be clear about specific goals.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. These are the three biggest challenges we’ve seen: Integrating digital talent into the core business. However, one serious challenge that often arises with accelerators is how to integrate new talent into the core business.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. Jim Womack, author and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute, describes this classic problem as “the loud voice of the CEO at the top becoming a faint whisper by the time it reaches the front lines of the organization.”

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Guidelines Operations Talent Sports 140

Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Operating Model. Prior to honing in on individual business units or lines of business, a few questions can help clarify tradeoff decisions and ensure an enterprise view: How unique are the businesses?

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Talent Agile Exercises 50

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units. “Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Businesses are increasingly turning to more powerful technologies to optimize their operations and deliver new innovations, but these large-scale projects can be unwieldy and disruptive if they aren’t coordinated and managed properly. These areas represent potential risks that you’ll need to address before they derail your efforts.

Enterprise 72

Enterprise Data Operations System 72

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The matrix is designed to bring forth the voices that need to influence key enterprise trade-off decisions (e.g., long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). These many voices create predictable tension that is often mistaken as something harmful.

Automotive 50

Automotive Enterprise Operations Agile 50

Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment helped the executive leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and unify the group around a single strategic view of the business and its future.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 29, 2022

Our project management consultants have helped numerous enterprises define their ERP initiatives, and even companies with experienced internal project teams often struggle to scope these high-impact, high-risk efforts. If you’re having trouble completing that step, consider these 3 tips to help you on your way.

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Enterprise Operations Training Training 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Talent wars will decide the winners and losers in the next decade. Getting access to great talent and unleashing motivation and discretionary effort are arguably the most important jobs for leaders in all areas of every business and government agency. To win the talent war, companies need to change. Accessing Talent.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. The head of operations chimed in: His five most recent checkouts had complained about breakfast, and the cost of compensating guests for disappointing experiences was getting out of control. Insight Center.

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Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 31

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Successfully identifying, developing, and retaining leadership talent is critical for any organization’s long-term success. That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR.

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Talent Management Leadership Development 28

LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Technology disruption, the war for talent, inflation, and recessionary pressures are creating the perfect storm for many businesses. Empower your teams to operate more efficiently and effectively and break down silos that impede open communication and collaboration. Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy?

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Talent 36

Brimstone Consulting

JULY 1, 2021

Additionally, the leaders did not see themselves as having decision-making power and they operated in organizational silos. Together, these issues were negatively impacting the operational efficiency of the organization and employee engagement. I’m incredibly grateful for your insight and coaching.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Complaints about HR include things from weak, reactive business partnering to poor talent recruitment and development, from time-wasting processes to incomprehensible communications. Next, consider talent. The best companies get a 29% boost in productivity from their talent. It can be measured in three ways: Time.

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Energy Talent Enterprise Productivity 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 16, 2016

No other business process has more impact on shaping culture than company-wide talent development forums. As they plan chess moves among promotable candidates, they learn to trust and they play more of an enterprise leadership role, often becoming a more collaborative leadership team. Amy Kates & Greg Kesler.

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Development Talent Enterprise Leadership 50

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. One of the problems Infosys consulted did face, however, was finding the right talent. IT Operations. Enterprise Processes.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And even within individual categories, you’ll find a diverse cross-section of SMBs, multinational enterprises, boutique firms, and even solo freelancers – plus a wide range of business models and organizational structures. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By the time your facility finally comes online, attracting the right talent could be far more challenging. Depending on where your new facility is located, your organization may have anticipated a drop in any number of operational expenses. Manufacturing workloads experience conflicts. Funding options fade away.

Transportation 52

Transportation Enterprise Financial Productivity 52

Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

At the same time, the talent component shouldn’t be left aside: data alone cannot lead companies to success without human expertise to use in an efficient way. . McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. The Data-Driven Enterprise of 2025. References .

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

Modern businesses follow the talent and many talented individuals are embracing their independence from companies, going off the books and onto their own as freelancers. The Necessity of C-suites in Micro to Enterprise Level Businesses. Formerly, C-suite teams were typically associated with enterprise level organizations.

SMB 60

SMB Enterprise Talent Efficiency 60

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The challenge is ineffective and incomplete activation.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

Large companies now recognise that the environment and communities in which they operate can contribute significantly to their bottom line. This realisation has led to an increasing focus on CSR, which involves operating in a way that benefits society over the long term. Here are three examples of skill-based volunteering.

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Financial Metrics Examples Operations 88

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2018

Ostensibly, young companies are “acqui-hired” more for their best people than for any real interest in their products, services, or ongoing operations. Talent acquisition is acqui-hiring’s main purpose, say innovation pundits — everything else matters less. Consider Jet.com founder Marc Lore: Walmart paid $3.3

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Talent How To Agile 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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System Management Nonprofit Operations 37

Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23.

Hotels 52

Hotels Training Training Exercises 52

Kates Kesler

AUGUST 19, 2016

We look at functions as “capability builders” – charged with building the processes, systems, and talent that can identify and move knowledge, ideas, and insights into the strategic decision making of the company. This can only be achieved if there is an enterprise view on talent, budget, resources, and priorities.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. In what Gartner calls a third era of enterprise IT, existing investments must be rebalanced and combined with new, disruptive technologies. Aligned Organizational Culture and Capabilities.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. Learning from Big Companies.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

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Company Enterprise System Leadership 28

1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Instead of supporting a few business processes, a managed services provider provides end-to-end operational support and enhancements for a seamless end-user experience. CXaaS operations are typically managed by a third-party partner on behalf of a brand. What are the top reasons to work with a managed services provider?

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 6, 2018

Simply put, management consulting is a profession that requires practitioners to possess solid and wide business common sense, deep professional knowledge in 1-2 domains (such as Marketing, Retail, Operation), and most importantly, intellectual capability to solve complicated business problems for clients. The third factor is, which country?

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Industry Consulting Oliver Wyman McKinsey 79

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The reason?

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