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

Progressus

Are compliance/governance rules working? Are processes/technologies implemented as part of a holistic strategy? Is everyone on the same page re: standards and procedures? Can everyone access the information they need? Is it easy to communicate/collaborate with colleagues and clients? Do processes produce the right outcome?

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

Harvard Business

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. “Know thyself” needs to become “Know thyselves.”

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Government. Corporate Governance. The cases usually take ~15 minutes to complete and the interviewers love it if you include some form of technology implementation into your recommendation. Automotive. Chemicals and Petroleum. Communications. Consumer Products. Electronics. Energy & Utilities. Financial Markets.

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

Harvard Business

In fact, we were actually engaged not in a technology-implementation program but in a huge change-management initiative. Understanding that people affected by government policy want to be heard, I took every meeting I could with representatives of health care stakeholders, especially physicians and hospitals.

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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.