Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

Digital currencies are revolutionizing the financial world, creating new opportunities and challenges for consumers, financial institutions, and governments. While cryptocurrencies promise to deliver more efficient, transparent, and accessible financial systems, the rise of crypto is also driven by broader concerns.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. PPM tools help allocate resources efficiently by analyzing availability, workload, and skill sets, ensuring that the right resources are allocated to the right projects. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

I recently ran into a short video by the New South Wales government which does a great job of introducing the notion of behavioral insights and application in the governmental space. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. Strategy Development.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Although there has been a significant focus on sharing threat information , both within the private sector and between the government and the private sector, such sharing remains incomplete at best, particularly when it comes to the techniques, tactics, and procedures that particular actors are employing.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 23, 2016

Your crisis management governance model serves as one of the foundational elements of your entire crisis management program. When working with clients to develop a scalable crisis management program, their governance structure is one of the first things I focus on developing.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 24, 2022

Governments, businesses, and individuals are developing new use cases for blockchain as barriers to adoption continue to decrease. Immutability and security are vital to the operation of government and business due to the sensitive information these institutions gatekeep. In contrast, Singapore supports cryptocurrency.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have emerged as critical tools for companies to measure and communicate their sustainability efforts. Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. As distinct from a project, a product doesn’t have a defined end date and is constantly under development to meet changing market demands. . Uncertainty poses another threat to efficient product portfolio management. .

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 19, 2024

Mastering the art of Learning Management System (LMS) optimization is essential for any organization striving for efficiency and effectiveness. However, the concept of governance often becomes a nebulous area, leading to inefficiencies. Here’s one way to map and think about the content life-cycle.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

High-profile clients MBB firms typically work with leading global companies, governments, and non-profit organizations. Training and Development MBB firms invest heavily in the training and development of their consultants. Training and Development MBB firms invest heavily in the training and development of their consultants.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

Effective governance serves as the bedrock for organizations, providing a framework for sound decision-making, personal accountability, and strategic direction. In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, where disruption and uncertainty are the norm, robust governance structures have never been more important.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. What organizations require a CPO? One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

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Effective Managers

MAY 3, 2024

This checklist, developed by ICMCI, provides an easy to implement guide that covers various aspects of a consulting project, from contracting, through delivery to the project’s closing. In addition, the standard provides twelve policies that are a resource for the consultant to use as a template for the development of clarifying documents.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

A formal treaty with Colombia’s government is expected to be signed in late July. The war certainly has prevented an efficient economic structure, forcing many Colombians to be inward-looking. “It’s a culture thing,” María Lacouture, the head of government economic development agency ProColombia, told me.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Regional integration, similar to the European Union’s, has been cited as a key to creating stability, growing economies, improving market efficiency, sharing the costs of large infrastructure projects, and addressing peace and security. Deeper economic integration in Africa offers a pathway to shared prosperity and increased global influence.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

Such a decentralized energy system would be capable of delivering efficient, reliable, and, in many cases, renewable energy. But it’s possible that blockchain may one day enable the development of an integrated trading system that would permit businesses to trade their option to use electricity during a given time frame.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

I studied eight leaders who came from business, government, and NCAA Division I sports. When talking about management, they focused on the behaviors of the manager in terms of the objectives of efficient delivery of performance and the successful achievement of results. And, if there is, where does it lie?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. We collaborated here to describe what we see as a truly unique story of government-led digital disruption.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In this kind of environment, focusing on worker retention and cross training to make existing workers more efficient makes a lot of sense. Everyone is trying to do more with less, and to help them achieve this goal, organizations are leaning in to their learning and development programs to help them fill that gap.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While the complexity of construction projects is increasing, digitalization provides construction companies with a number of benefits: high efficiency of processes, precise project planning and visualization, real-time cooperation, new market opportunities, reduced risks, more effective decision-making, optimized construction costs, etc. [5;

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

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Epicflow

APRIL 6, 2022

Let’s take a look at some last year’s developments regarding AI applications in aerospace and defense. . IBM and Raytheon Technologies have signed a partnership agreement for developing advanced AI, cryptography, and quantum solutions for the aerospace, defense, and intelligence industries.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

But what if the task had been simply to make a chip that was 30% more efficient? More recently, Steve Blank has developed lean startup methods and Alex Osterwalder has created tools like the business model canvas and value proposition canvas. In fact, a study analyzing 17.9

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Emerson Consulting Group

JULY 8, 2019

Flywheels, Ideas, and Individual Actions to Better Manage the Government Services You Buy . By Steven Borne Consuming Government Publications. For most Americans, their largest annual purchase is government services. Yet we are irresponsible consumers! And to those who don’t even do that! ” –Hon.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

What we end up with are dynamic demand chains in place of rigid supply chains, resulting in more efficient resource use for all. These potential efficiency improvements, enabled by hitherto unavailable information, suggest blockchain technology could deliver vast savings for companies everywhere. Various endeavors have already started.

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Eupnea Management Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Article Driving Business Response to the Impact of Covid-19: Improving Governance Follow us on Linkedin: FOLLOW Delving into the few and far between likely external events and extending lines of defence for the unpredictable What is the impact? Only 37% of directors say their board fully understands the company’s crisis management plan 7.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. Figure 2: Sentiment of SMEs with pessimistic outlook (Source: McKinsey ).

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

For decades, African governments have used many policy instruments to improve farm productivity. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business. Alternatively, governments or the African Union could fund large-scale soil map to accelerate precision farming.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. Over the coming decade, many more digital currencies will be created by entrepreneurs and governments. What is the value of digital currency?

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Kraft Kennedy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Governance teams are challenged to reconcile Copilots reach with the data security requirements. To address this, Microsoft developed three innovative features to assert control over Copilots usage of data in the Microsoft estate. But with this power comes the responsibility for data security and access boundaries.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Part of the challenge for this CDAO is that the terms governing the data at the aggregate level are not clear. A large durable goods manufacturer wanted to quantify the value of the IT portfolio to its product development function. It is tough to figure out what the company can and cannot do with the merged data.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. 4] Digital skills In response to the active implementation of technologies and data analytics, project managers also require developed digital skills that should be regularly updated.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

More broadly, we might define a smart society as one where digital technology, thoughtfully deployed by governments, can improve on three broad outcomes: the well-being of citizens, the strength of the economy, and the effectiveness of institutions. Its building blocks are what governments and policy makers aim to provide for their citizens.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2016

They were signing a peace agreement to end the long-running conflict between the Colombian government and the guerrillas. His support has grown, thanks to intense and seething activity on Twitter, where he often attacks the government’s decisions. Santos will have a difficult two years to govern until the end of his mandate.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2023

By harnessing the potential of AI, companies can optimize the integration and management of clean technologies , leading to increased efficiency, cost savings, and environmental sustainability. Consulting firms can help by identifying relevant data sources, implementing data collection systems, and establishing data governance practices.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing nations leapfrog more-developed economies. This in turn boosted development by allowing relatively poor farmers to reliably send and receive payments at affordable rates, fostering economic growth by lowering transaction costs.

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