Workforce Solutions Co.

Challenge A multibillion-dollar staffing company faced persistently low fill rates driven by fragmented systems and inconsistent technology adoption. Legacy platforms limited integration of new tools and organizational silos led IT to often deploying functionality without input from the business. This resulted in misaligned investments and poor user adoption. The firm needed a sharper view of… Read More

Challenge Fueled by acquisitions and rapid geographic and service expansion, a global professional services firm saw general and administrative costs outpace revenue and exceed peer benchmarks. A sustained focus on top-line growth drove the expansion of finance, accounting, and tax teams to support new offerings and bespoke client demands. Fragmented governance contributed to the proliferation… Read More

Staffing Co.

Challenge One year after a merger of equals, a combined multibillion-dollar staffing agency was still operating as more than 300 independent local businesses rather than a coordinated national enterprise. Shared services for finance and IT had been established and a centralized operations team provided overflow support, but execution suffered from unclear ownership and poor coordination… Read More

Complexity IQ: The New Core Competency for Leaders

*This article by Stephen Wilson originally appeared on Forbes and is republished here with permission.*   Business leaders face ever-increasing levels of complexity, driven by an explosion of product variations, customer requirements, global supply chains, changing regulations, new technology, matrixed organizations, and the pursuit of new markets. Today, a gap remains between executives who manage… Read More

A Return to Value

Explore how organizations can restore financial discipline and long-term value creation in an era of rising capital costs and growing complexity through modern Value-Based Management.… Read More