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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS). The cases usually take ~15 minutes to complete and the interviewers love it if you include some form of technology implementation into your recommendation. IBM’s first realized customers needed more than hardware in 1989. Duke University.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business

I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects. Reflecting on her experience, she says: “I’m astonished by what I learned that I could immediately use to upgrade my own work.

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Effective Governance: Overcoming Bias and Inertia

Tom Spencer

In this article, we will delve into the heart of these challenges and provide actionable tips to overcome them. This can be done by fostering a culture of innovation, leveraging new data analytics and communication technologies, implementing cross-functional teams, and empowering those teams to make key decisions.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

The critical organizational challenges going forward revolve less around technological implementations than around data and analytics governance. The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

In fact, we were actually engaged not in a technology-implementation program but in a huge change-management initiative. Nothing in the law required hospitals or doctors to adopt or meaningfully use electronic health records. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse.

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The Value of Engaging Stakeholders

Gina Abudi

Last year, three particular projects in which I was involved with clients was focused on managing the change management and communication process for large technology projects the clients were undertaking within the organization. The post The Value of Engaging Stakeholders appeared first on Gina Abudi.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business

Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications.

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