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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

However, for organisations to fully benefit from big data they will need to review their decision-making processes, and become more agile and responsive to new insights in order to realise the full value of big data ( EY, 2016 ). Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017.

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When Top-Down Change Isn’t Working, Hand the Keys to Frontline Staff

BCG

Article Thursday, June 08, 2017 The World Bank turned to agile methodologies, implemented from the bottom up, to improve operational efficiency and employee satisfaction. Operations head Kyle Peters describes the challenges and successes.

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How Can Digital Suppliers Accelerate Customers’ Transformations?

BCG

Article Thursday, March 09, 2017. They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. Companies “get it.”

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. The rise of contractual employment offers businesses the benefit of agility and adaptability by turning full-time employees into freelancers. wages) into a variable cost (i.e.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 1 – Artificial Intelligence)

Tom Spencer

So with customers expecting more personalized, agile, and on-demand delivery, insurers are now racing to keep pace and deliver more relevant solutions for a changing user landscape. What’s more, the digital revolution is demanding internal changes to drive digital transformation within the organization and operate in more cost-effective ways.

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Leaner, Faster, and Better with DevOps

BCG

Article Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Agile methodologies have given companies just what they need in the digital era: a collaborative and flexible way to develop software. DevOps calls for some staff from IT operations, which traditionally works apart from developers, to be brought onto cross-functional agile teams.

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Nurturing Psychological Safety in the Workplace Through an Age-Diverse Lens

Harmonious Workplaces

This tendency can have significant consequences in a workplace reliant on knowledge sharing and interpersonal communication for organizational agility, underscoring the heightened importance of fostering psychological safety (Edmondson, 2018). “A However, we both leaned in. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships , 17 (1), 1–24.

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