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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. What can I do?”

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Click here to learn more from Accenture. There’s no time to lose.

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An Overview of Software Consulting

Tom Spencer

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. The city hired Accenture to modernize its civil service, which led Accenture to create an app to manage daily maintenance in the city by alerting relevant technicians. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth.

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What Management Consulting Looks Like Post Covid-19

Tom Spencer

The main objective for each project is value-add for the client, and technology can improve both the effectiveness of the solutions offered as well as the efficiency with which those solutions are created. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business

But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Take the paint shop.