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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. Gartner describes this concept as a platform-based system that supports an “internal gig economy.”

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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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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. 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.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

The importance of talented employees for a young firm’s success is undisputed, yet we know relatively little about how exactly employees contribute to a startup’s success. But what kind of hires help ensure a startup’s success?

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

SRI’s expertise plays an important role in what is now Gallup Consulting because the merger actually expanded Gallup’s knowledge base and expertise, increasing its value to worldwide corporations and other organizations. . Be warned that their training is not as formal as most top firms.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. 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. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

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. What kind of training or supervision or mentorship would the women receive? And when I say smaller, I don’t mean dinky.