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New Module: Learning from Mistakes and Successes

Coaching Ourselves

Dr Kass’ career has spanned research in human spaceflight to knowledge management with the European Commission. Learning from Mistakes and Successes” is not just the domain of project managers but is for every employee in an organization. He currently running his own consultancy, James R Kass Space Consulting.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. Here’s what we’ve learned about how to establish a successful internal consulting group.

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NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT. Strategic Planning

Mike Cardus

When we understand the NOISE conditions, we can create a path towards the future that allows the company or team or project to flourish. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. Flip Chart Paper. Lots of Post-it Notes. Group Size.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

A veteran of knowledge management, business intelligence, and large-scale technology implementation projects with more than fifty companies worldwide, he has been a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, has worked for IBM and Computer Sciences Corporation, and was a fellow at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.

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Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

Harvard Business Review

Yet it happens all the time when companies make a practice of hiring back retirees as consultants to perform the same functions they did before, at higher pay. A scientist or engineer would retire from the organization, wait the mandatory six months, and then field a call from a former manager with an offer to re-engage.

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June Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

Stephen Warrilow presents How To Manage Change – Putting It All Together posted at Change Management – Practical Strategies For Success , saying that in the current economic climate, all organisations are experiencing the impacts of change and many could now benefit from the practical knowledge of how to lead and manage change.

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The IT Challenge of the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

The fact is, London 2012 is the largest and most sophisticated sports information technology (IT) project of all time. But the complexity of the project is not only a function of having to cover so many clients, sites, and systems. It is also a multi-supplier project with many varied dependencies.