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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.

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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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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. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). And it will mean getting comfortable with influence derived from sources other than positional power, such as a decision right that is tipped one way or another for key operating issues or budget control that is granted to a new unit/function.2

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. Talent Marketplaces Talent marketplaces connect organization with on-demand talent like independent consultants or experts with skills outside of their core business model. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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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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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.