Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article delves into the rising importance of ESG metrics, how companies are integrating them into their operations, provides leading examples, and highlights the evolving regulatory landscape. ESG metrics provide a framework for evaluating business performance along three dimensions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Energy, too, is difficult to come by.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You might be wondering, “ Can I really start a consulting business or coaching practice while managing the chaos of raising young children?” Your joy: If your business doesn’t bring you joy, it will drain the energy you need to be fully present with your kids. ” The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The most common conversation I have these days with discouraged employees below senior management levels goes like this: “This company’s bureaucracy is killing me.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2023

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful tool in transforming various industries, including renewable energy. 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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. Execution of the operating model could include building a behavioral team, outsourcing, augmenting, or partnering. Operating Model Development. What should our behavioral insights team look like?

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

This is particularly true in organizations where employees are both, what Paul Graham calls, “makers” and “managers.” Managers, on the other hand, are the leaders who integrate across disciplines and serve as the interface between customer needs and the organization’s strategy. Please do not disturb.”

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

Government incentives for investment into renewable energy sources, such as subsidies and tax credits , are becoming an increasingly popular way for governments to meet national pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Secondly, renewable energy is naturally occurring and based on resources that are continually replenished.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

A year into their jobs, how many employees still have the unbridled energy and enthusiasm that they brought with them to their first day on the job? Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. redesign the operating model. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

In New York state, neighbors are testing their ability to sell solar energy to one another using blockchain technology. In Austria, the country’s largest utility conglomerate, Wien Energie, is taking part in a blockchain trial focused on energy trading with two other utilities. Distributed Database.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Bain’s major industries of importance in the Middle East include Airlines & Transportation, Media, Mining, Oil & Gas, Retail, Private Equity, Social & Public Sector, Technology, Telecommunications, Utilities and Alternative energy (the oil will run out one day!).

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

Management teams and organizations that prioritize inclusion attract better talent and perform better. In bringing this mindset to life, leaders wind up embracing a number of unconventional management practices. Hire for talent, not a résumé Inclusive management starts before employees even walk in the door.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Business leaders have significant concerns about energy. Yet most companies reported that they still manage energy on a short-term, reactive basis. Only a third of the executives surveyed said their organization have an energy management strategy or have the ability to generate power onsite. Tackling the Challenge.

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The Management Centre

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I need to manage my stakeholders and I don’t know where to start. As a project manager it’s important to know and understand who your stakeholders are and how to manage your relationships with them. For other bigger, more complex projects you can face a potential minefield of relationships that you need to manage.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Big companies have been buying a lot of clean energy lately – 3.5 They put up almost no capital and usually lower their day-to-day energy costs. First, due in large part to the scale and consistency of their energy purchasing, industrials already pay the lowest rates for power. Get early buy-in. Use cross-functional teams.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises. Patrick Smith/Getty Images.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Gemini Consulting was formed in 1991 with the integration of management consulting firms, United Research and The MAC Group. The practice areas with projects that offer the best exit opportunities for business management are Big Data and Analytics, Marketing and Business & Technology Innovation. Random, right? Industries.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

Most offices have adequate but aging lighting systems that often operate inefficiently, can waste vast amounts of energy, and annoy employees. We believe that a recent business-model innovation will overcome this barrier and upend commercial lighting and other energy services. How It Works.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Since that time, it has become the fastest growing management consulting firm today. After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This is a familiar scene for companies building mines, pipelines, oil fields, and, more recently, even renewable energy and large real estate projects. For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. New research is pointing in the same direction.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

VR and drone scanning can make project information more accurate – technical engineers will be able to get the exact size and projection of buildings faster, and project managers will be able to sustain value. Building information modeling (BIM) Building information modeling is one of the relatively new trends in construction management.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

The combination of these factors ( time + talent + energy ) and the interactions between them, is how human capital is converted into productivity and economic value. Finally, let’s look at energy. For the average company, energy was the single largest source of productive power.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2017

Yet too much focus can be a problem : It drains your brain of energy , makes you care less about people, and prevents you from seeing what is happening around you. Not Having as Much Energy as Usual. Not Operating at Your Peak. This management of energy often requires switching between focus and unfocus.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, today BearingPoint is emerging as a player in the operations and technology scene, especially in Europe, and has re-established an impressive growth trajectory. BearingPoint Managing Partner: Peter Mockler. This consulting business unit focused on both technology and management. Preparing for a BearingPoint interview?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

However, creating a schedule to ration capacity and energy is indispensable for sustaining response efforts over the days and weeks required.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement hiring IBM to design, build and manage a new state-of-the-art data center for Kodak in Rochester, NY under the brand name Integrated Systems Solutions (ISSC).

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Epicflow

AUGUST 12, 2024

Thanks to reducing waste and inefficiencies, increased productivity, more efficient resource utilization, effective risk forecasting and management, and making informed decisions, manufacturing companies reduce extra expenditures and increase profitability. This allows them to take data-driven actions and timely address issues if any.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” Many managers can easily recite the business case for ethics: Who doesn’t want better risk management, deeper employee engagement, reduced regulatory costs, public trust, and a lure to purpose-driven Millennials? They are less subject to short-term operational pressures, and accordingly less risk-averse.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

"Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities." - Joseph Campbell. In the past you operated in a compensation model where you do work and then get paid. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

They want you to do their performance management work for them. But the leaders will still hire us and pay us well because they have a hard time holding their own direct reports accountable and using their own performance management processes. As coaches, we know that this is not the best candidate for coaching. So we're brought in.

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