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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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A Global Online Network Lets Health Professionals Share Expertise

Harvard Business Review

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. How do you design a hospital?

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

The retiree satisfied financial and personal goals while the organization reinserted someone with unrivaled knowledge and expertise into a project and took its time sourcing replacement talent. Worse, the rehiring agreements were structured only to provide project continuity, not to retain or transfer knowledge.

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How One Company Reduced Email by 64%

Harvard Business Review

It acquired social-software maker blueKiwi and combined the acquired company’s application with two from Microsoft, creating a platform that allows individuals and teams, including those in partners and clients, to enter virtual “communities” where they can collaborate on complex projects. Insight Center.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Body of Knowledge. Protection of status and utilization of organizational working knowledge, management’s activities and relationships with regulators. They can be turned from disasters into opportunities to project corporate strengths. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Big Picture.