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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

January 2015: I email Joe via LinkedIn: Hello Joe, I see you've been in your new job 6 months already. July 2015: Joe changes jobs again, going back to a company where he worked years before. Of course, let me know if you ever need any consulting talent. He replies: Will do Liz. I certainly hope it’s going well!

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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5 Things We Learned About Creating a Successful Workplace Diversity Program

Harvard Business

In 2015, UCAR appointed Brinkworth as the Director for Diversity, Education, and Outreach (DEO), (later called the Chief Diversity Officer), and was tasked with making UCAR more diverse and inclusive. Like many technical workplaces, UCAR, which has approximately 1400 employees, has struggled to recruit and retain women and people of color.

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The Right Way to Use Analytics Isn’t for Planning

Harvard Business

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. Laura Schneider for HBR. The failures continue.

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Towers Watson Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Note: To continue the merger and consolidation excitement, Willis Group (a large insurance provider interested largely in the actuarial practice of Towers Watson) and Towers Watson announced on June 30, 2015 that they had agreed to a $18B merger. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Talent Assessment. Talent Management.

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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