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“Cracking the Code on Collaboration – Six new tools”.  Here was the answer I had been searching for – THE code.  I imagined that I would find a set of swanky new digital tools or techniques that would blow my socks off.  Maybe even a little RPA or AI thrown in for good luck.  So, [...]
Author: Anne Kohler
Posted: October 3, 2024, 11:45 am
A recent spate of news around this topic makes this an opportune time for this discussion.  Any Category Management (CM) strategy (and for this discussion we will talk about outsourcing offshore as the CM strategy) MUST have an exit ramp as an integral component.  The reason that offshoring is part of your strategy is because [...]
Author: Dalip Raheja
Posted: September 26, 2024, 10:33 am
ALL our Fortune 500 clients have some form of a Leadership Development program in place and pay millions of dollars a year for such programs with what executives would describe as “so-so” results.   “The number of players offering courses to impart the hard and soft skills required of corporate managers has soared. And yet organizations [...]
Author: Anne Kohler
Posted: September 12, 2024, 11:52 am
As you know, we try and stay away from fads and labels and hopefully this doesn’t turn into one.  Future Proofing is a term that is starting to gain some traction and I decided that it was a vary apt description for our latest research publication that was just released:  Future Proof your Organization: Challenges, [...]
Author: TMG Admin
Posted: September 5, 2024, 11:59 am
Since this is the start of Labor Day weekend (in the US), we thought we would delay our really serious blog post that we had planned.  We hope you have a safe holiday weekend with friends and loved ones.
Author: TMG Admin
Posted: August 29, 2024, 2:34 pm