links for 2008-02-23
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“We are a schizophrenic firm,” said the mild-mannered CEO of Deloitte Consulting “We like to compete in all areas with McKinsey, BCG in strategy, Hewitt and the likes in Human Capital and Indian firms like Wipro, Tata and Infosys in technology.
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Deloitte has zeroed in on three service areas for growth: Strategy & Operations, Human Capital and Technology. The organisation expects its headcount in India to go to 12,000 by 2010 and, thereafter, to 20,000 “beyond 2010”, according to Mr Roopen Roy
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all that facilitating learning required was to “be yourself”
Over a period of years, I have come to realize that this is really not as easy and simple as it seems…
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Richard Metzler and his son, Jon Metzler, decided to capture those stories into a book, titled “Lore of Wizards: Consultants on Consulting”. The book is comprised of multiple interviews with industry veterans
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In a self-referential turn, Dilbert creator Scott Adams has created a series of strips that follow Dave Steward who was fired from his security job at a Iowa casino last year for posting a Dilbert strip that referred to management as “drunken lemurs.”
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The term “talent management” simply means “trying to forecast what we are going to need, and then planning to meet that” Cappelli notes. The definition of SCM is essentially the same: “We think that demand for our products next year is going to be ‘X’. Ho
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SEO, like word of mouth, should be an byproduct outcome, not a primary objective. Any brand that plays in this space should be aiming to create value. Do that and the other stuff will follow.
