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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

Are compliance/governance rules working? Market trends? Leading organizations have the agility and flexibility needed to respond to disruptions, evolve with market conditions, and act on emerging trends without clunky processes holding them back. How long does it take to bring those solutions to market? The bottom line?

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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

The chance to make more people more valuable worldwide is a market opportunity that could and should prove bigger than bots. The critical organizational challenges going forward revolve less around technological implementations than around data and analytics governance. ”

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

IBM’s target market for consulting services became the clients who were willing to pay for higher-value corporate services packages of research, software and services. Information Technology. Marketing Sales & Service. Financial Markets. Government. Corporate Governance. Fast forward to today.

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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. Some of these top consulting firms also have strong alumni networks in industry, finance, law and government.