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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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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Are compliance/governance rules working? Is everyone on the same page re: standards and procedures?

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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

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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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. These services focused on business management and information technology.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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

Tom Spencer

They then assemble a team which, depending on the size and scope of the project, is likely to include engagement managers, subject matter experts, associates and analysts. Some of these top consulting firms also have strong alumni networks in industry, finance, law and government.