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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. In this article, we’ll provide a high-level overview of where the professional services industry is right now – and what current conditions mean for project-based organizations. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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

Kates Kesler

She had hired top talent, built assets, and delivered high quality demonstration projects. They do all the right things: create a strategy, announce a leader, build and buy the talent needed, research and implement best practices, purchase new technology, and roll-out training. But a year later they have little to show for it.

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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. 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. Start slow, finish fast.

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

Kates Kesler

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. And where they need to let go of decisions to create speed but also to develop talent.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Specifically, how can we ensure that we are appropriately looking ahead, curating market opportunities, and defining holistic responses to address the specific needs of our customers? Doesn’t the Chief Marketing Officer look at opportunities out in the market?

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

2 And as market conditions, companies, and products and services evolve, so too should the organization and interaction models.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. This new knowledge-base resulted in new large contracts; many contractual partners are still in force today. Gallup, Inc.