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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Traditional Agencies Business Talent Group (BTG) : Known for high-impact, strategic projects that often require senior-level expertise (e.g., On-Demand by RGP : Specializes in operational and implementation support; projects tend to be longer-term roles focusing on functional expertise like accounting, finance, HR, IT, and supply chain.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Talent can move into and out of an organization, through a growing array of options such as freelance platforms , crowdsourcing efforts, and temporary, contract, or part-time work. As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Why are typical work systems uncoordinated?

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Let’s take pay.

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Why On-Demand Talent Is the Future

Comatch

There is no way around it: on-demand talent is the future of work. An increasingly digital business landscape has meant a growing demand from companies for highly specialized talent to help navigate this changing business environment. . Hiring On-Demand Talent: The Advantages. Advantage #1: A Solution to the Talent Problem.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

The challenges of big firm–small firm collaboration are considerable: different cultures, different attitudes about sharing intellectual property, different concerns about risk sharing, and others. They focused on the entrepreneurial talent, not the technology. They used the right metrics to measure success.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team. Leadership is changing — fast.

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The 4 Main Ways to Innovate in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

One challenges with the specialist mode is that companies must build these technical capabilities in-house to prevent imitation from competitors; to attract and retain top talent; and to maintain process rigor in the an era of increasing design churn. For example, established firms can benefit of learning how to operate in the venture mode.