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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Covid-19 exposed which companies in an industry could change direction quickly and respond to new consumer, employee, regulatory, and supply demands, turning adversity into opportunity. Highly regulated industries typically have more centralized oversight functions. Today’s organizations need to move faster than ever before.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Operating Model. Instead of blanket statements such as ‘keeping all high performers,’ viewing talent through a strategic lens can be a useful criteria to make objective tradeoff choices. Customers.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. We recently worked with a high-growth medical device company that makes sophisticated hardware and software systems.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

Most importantly, though, it demands an ultra-specialized talent pool that, according to latest reports, currently stands at only 22,000 PhD-level experts worldwide — a remarkably small pool. trillion, it’s clear why the battle to recruit from this scarce group has become the industry’s defining challenge.

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Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

Working as an in-house consultant within a corporate industry rather than in a consulting firm may mean that your day to day dealings will be working with technology focused people with a different skill set to yours who are developing the new strategic areas that need to be explored. How much do you need to know? Word will soon get around.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

Last year Facebook became the second largest e-commerce company in Africa after Jumia, the industry leader. But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations.