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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business

customers, competitors, suppliers, employees, regulators, partners, and so on) occur at the level of the operating unit, and if these interfaces are genuinely different between operating units, it makes sense to locate the corresponding tasks (e.g., If the sources of these opportunities and threats (e.g., Avoiding duplication.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

Most importantly, though, it demands an ultra-specialized talent pool that, according to latest reports, currently stands at only 22,000 PhD-level experts worldwide — a remarkably small pool. This makes finding, retaining, and nurturing talent the field’s most pressing challenge. trillion and $5.8

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Have you designed your change and project management capabilities?

Kates Kesler

Local (business unit and operational function) teams have embedded practitioners that know the work of the unit and can build local relationships. . How do we acquire project and change management talent? . Talent is sourced centrally through a mix of external hiring and internal transfers.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Startups that operate in sectors with strong physical elements still have promising businesses despite using the internet to drive them.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Operating Model. Instead of blanket statements such as ‘keeping all high performers,’ viewing talent through a strategic lens can be a useful criteria to make objective tradeoff choices. Customers.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

The company was structured around fully loaded product business units, each with its own Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Product Marketing. We recently worked with a high-growth medical device company that makes sophisticated hardware and software systems.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units.

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