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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. Strategy and Capabilities. Many organizations have a compelling, inspirational strategy supported by organizational capabilities. Operating Model. Customers.

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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . How do we acquire project and change management talent? . Talent is sourced centrally through a mix of external hiring and internal transfers. Christie Irizarry.

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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. A common strategy is created by representatives of the network and is broadly communicated.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

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.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

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. long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability).

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing.

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Tecchies vs Business minds - managing people in different departments

freshminds

So how do you manage people where you do not have the practical knowledge of their subject and the job they do? Understand the topic you are working on - To be a useful, co-operative and approachable team member in a tech focused team, don't isolate yourself from the group by seemingly having no relevant knowledge at all.