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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

Change management is not just a skill or a process. This post will dive deeper into building the change and project management capabilities that underpin transformation governance. . Integrated portfolio management. . Change management (CM) excellence. . Project management (PM) excellence.

Management

Management Enterprise Metrics Change Management

To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Capabilities. Metrics and Rewards.

Talent

Talent Metrics Accenture Development

To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

When thinking about diversity and inclusion, organizations need to take a more holistic view of the organization; many organizations focus their efforts too narrowly on talent practices and do not consider the broader organization design. The focus on “fixing” a talent problem comes too late. Capabilities. Metrics and Rewards.

Talent

Talent Metrics Accenture Development

What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. That said, professional services firms have some important things in common.

Industry

Industry SMB Software Talent

Organization Design for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Kates Kesler

JULY 6, 2020

And, the best way we have found to change an organizational system is to make the change a strategic objective, and then holistically consider how structures, management and decision processes, and talent and rewards practices reinforce behaviors. Does the strategy adequately represent employees, customers, and communities?

Talent

Talent System Culture Meeting

So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Kates Kesler

JANUARY 18, 2022

She had hired top talent, built assets, and delivered high quality demonstration projects. Cari faces a common problem: An executive leadership team decides to build a capability critical to the company’s strategy and future success. But a year later they have little to show for it. Keep the complexity away from the client.

Enterprise

Enterprise Talent Accenture Energy

Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

JANUARY 20, 2016

So how do you manage people where you do not have the practical knowledge of their subject and the job they do? Appreciate the differences between tech and strategy - What might seem like an easy thing to change from an aesthetic point of view on a website might not be so simple to change from the coding point of view.

Management

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

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization? Centralized: Some work and decisions need to be placed at the enterprise level, often when the strategy requires policies or controls to enhance risk management and protect the brand.

Agile

Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent

Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As a company strategy becomes more dynamic and ambitious, leaders will often shift to a matrixed organization model to help the business excel at doing more than one thing simultaneously. Extracting the benefits of healthy tension requires a thoughtful approach for managing the convergence of dimensions in a matrix.

Automotive

Automotive Enterprise Operations Agile

Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More specifically, we were able to go over a few common questions about the differences in recruiting at a ‘target university’ and a ‘non-target university’ for management consulting. Why did you decide to pursue management consulting? Jeff : I had little idea about management consulting until my second year at university.

Recruiting

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. To manage this complexity, our client created a c-suite role called the Chief Ecosystem Officer. This leader directly manages only a small number of people.

Accenture

Accenture Engineering Methodologies Productivity

The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This is a key talent challenge for most organizations, and a talent gap that needs to be closed, starting at the top – with the role of the CEO. Every CEO should be cultivating these behaviors to maximize innovative thinking: The most innovative leaders: Manage Risk. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

Development

Development Leadership Trends Study

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

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

The impact has been consequential: ICT is rapidly moving Africa toward knowledge-based economic structures and information societies, comprising networks of individuals, firms, and states that are linked electronically and in interdependent relationships. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

Telecommunications

Telecommunications Banking Knowledge Base Data

Why Should Business Leaders Worry about Health and Education?

Henman Performance Executive

JULY 11, 2011

Benjamin Freakly, “Our nation faces critical challenges that threaten our ability to produce the healthy, highly educated and skilled workforce essential to remain competitive in a knowledge-based global economy.”. Crisis Management. Talent Management. Advice for Consultants. Coaching and Mentoring. Communication.

Education

Education Conference Knowledge Base Journal

Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Linda’s company, Talent Reconnect, offers returnships that are aimed mostly at women who have graduated from top business schools but who had 2 to 5 years of post-MBA experience before opting out. It’s obvious the hiring managers know what they’re hiring. It’s backed by Sequoia.

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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

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To Little, Too Late: Why many Diversity and Inclusion efforts fall short

What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Organization Design for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

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

Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

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

Why Should Business Leaders Worry about Health and Education?

Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

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