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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

Effective governance serves as the bedrock for organizations, providing a framework for sound decision-making, personal accountability, and strategic direction. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where disruption and uncertainty are the norm, robust governance structures have never been more important.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide. For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor.

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

Harvard Business

But why stop with industrial assets? The critical organizational challenges going forward revolve less around technological implementations than around data and analytics governance. ” As the volume, velocity, variety, and value of data increases, so does the importance of governance. ”

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. Government. Automotive. Chemicals and Petroleum. Electronics.

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

Tom Spencer

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Having said this, there are four key challenges that may prevent this new model from disrupting the industry.