Each year, a large number of business professionals make the decision to leave their corporate jobs to pursue independent consulting. To them, a career in independent consulting means having a flexible schedule, being one’s own boss, or a way to realize their real potential. For some people, independent consulting implies doing what they are truly […]
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Organizational Obstacles to Agile
Agile is a robust approach to value creation. More and more organizations are adopting Agile Software Development approach. Becoming Agile is imperative to meet and exceed customer expectations and emerging business trends. Implementing the Agile approach to Software Development leverages significant benefits, including: Rapid design and development of new product and service offerings Revolutionizing processes […]
Customer Experience (CX) Pyramid
Most organizations aren’t ready to deliver great Customer Experiences across all channels. Many of them have invested heavily in conventional methods of doing business, backed by in person or over-the-phone customer experience. This has led to creation of siloed operational structures within companies, where each silo operates individually. With the advent of digital channels, these […]
Executive Selection 101: Selecting a New CEO or Other Executive Level Role
Mediocre people occupying senior leadership positions is one of the chief reasons for the fiasco and humiliation that organizations like Enron and WorldCom faced. The practice of recruiting average people at the top is omnipresent and often goes unnoticed until the results begin to surface, which is typically too late for any intervention. Smart people […]
HR Strategy: 4 Benefits of Setting Up a Robust Job Leveling Framework
Inadequately structured jobs create disputes, negative perceptions, inequality, and frustration among employees. On the other hand, well-articulated jobs, appropriate distribution of work, justified authority levels, and correct estimation of value of individual jobs elevate employee engagement levels, productivity, and job satisfaction. Organized job levels are a sign of effective Human Resources Management function. The lack […]
Digital Transformation: 2 Distinct Approaches to Talent Management
Traditional Talent Management practices fail to meet the high-potential talent requirements imperative to compete in the digital world today. In fact, they disappoint the key talent available in the market. A 2016 Digital Business research by MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte on 3700+ executives reveals attracting and retaining talent as the most pressing concern […]
Finding It Hard to Manage a Stable Talent Pipeline? Get Help from These 6 Pillars of Talent Management
Enterprises worldwide face problems selecting, staffing, developing, compensating, motivating, and sustaining their key talent. Building a sustainable Talent pipeline is quite strenuous even for large multinationals. Replicating best practices from somewhere and applying them alone isn’t sufficient for organizations to build a Talent pipeline and achieve Competitive Advantage. This warrants overcoming arduous challenges associated with […]
Smart Organizational Design Approach vs. Traditional Organization Design Approaches
Business environment has transformed drastically from what it was a century ago. It has become immensely challenging due to competition, disruptive technologies, laws, and globalization. These challenges warrant better performance to address customer needs and to survive—and outpace—intense competition. Consequently, organizations have become complex. The work that individuals perform in an organization has also shifted […]
What’s the Toughest Issue with Talent Management?
Do you know what’s the toughest issue with Talent Management? A large majority of leaders confront significant impediments trying to bring their talent and business priorities in line. Are you one of them? The typical approach employed to accomplish this often contains several gaps—starting with recognizing critical roles in the company where leaders tend to fail […]
Talent Management Is DEAD–Killed by Complexity!
The “War for Talent” Since McKinsey coined the team in 1997[1], they have argued strongly that effective Talent Management (TM) is a driver of value creation in organisations. This has launched a spate of TM practices in consulting companies, as well as a multi-billion dollar industry for software vendors like Oracle, SAP, and IBM. Enterprises […]
