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Consulting Firms 101 Video Series

Management Consulted

In this video series, we compare the firms using 6 different metrics: Branding/prestige. Tier 2 Firms: Oliver Wyman, Accenture, Booz & Co., Curious to know what they are? Salary/compensation. Exit opportunities. Interviews. Top 3 Firms: McKinsey, Bain, and BCG. Big 4 Firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC. Kearney, and more.

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Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little

Harvard Business

Although 23% were making strides in all three areas, just 6% were investing heavily in all three — and those “experiential organizations” (Adobe, Accenture, Facebook, Microsoft, and others) saw performance gains. I wasn’t able to find every single metric for every single company, but the results were still striking.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. These future-oriented Deere managers believe that frequent monitoring of motivation has become as essential to understanding the health and functioning of their teams as operational and financial metrics are to understanding whether the business is firing on all cylinders. Insight Center.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics. According to a survey by the UN and Accenture , 63% of executives believe that sustainability will cause major changes in their businesses in the next five years.

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. Transforming a relatively simple idea into a $19 billion windfall, it turns out, was more about solving problems with the tools at hand than inventing new solutions from scratch.

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How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success

Harvard Business

see business results suffer more during the organizational changes (over half of M&A-driven reorgs see significant and very significant drops — of more than 5% and more than 10%, respectively — in the operating metrics of the units affected, as compared with 33% for other reorgs). Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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