Explore ideas shaped by the experience of Cordence Worldwide Member Firms working across markets, industries, and complex business challenges. Together, these perspectives reflect the depth of the diversity and expertise found across our alliance.
There are probably no two topics more convoluted to business leaders right now than “digital transformation” and “AI.” Both are broad, require ventures into the unknown, significant investments of time and money, and a lot of visibility and pressure from the executives. The stakes feel high, and the pace at which business leaders feel pressured […]
The pharmaceutical industry is currently experiencing significant challenges. As such, the increasing digitization level in pharmaceutical value chains as wells as cost-efficiency pressures request the adaptation of HR departments. Today’s businesses have to contend with two realities. Although Human Resources still focuses on costs and administration, it has evolved into a process that involves leadership, […]
A leading global beverage company looked to North Highland for support driving an organizational transformation designed to fuel the next chapter of its growth. With a partnership grounded in co-creation, North Highland guided the company in infusing design thinking into its change initiatives, engaging leaders and associates, and embedding new ways of working into the […]
Let me ask you: as a board member – how many times have you left a board meeting with one or more of the below feelings about the meeting? The meeting was ineffective, time was wasted going in circles, resulting in going way over time or ending before the entire agenda had been addressed The […]
Sectors across the private and public domain are facing disruption in today’s agile and digital-savvy world. Mark Dunwell, a consultant at North Highland in the UK, answers five questions about how disruptive technologies could help solve tomorrow’s challenges in the public sector. Learn more
Managing public infrastructure assets is becoming increasingly important, not only to improve cost efficiency, but also to improve services, safety and availability to those who ultimately pay for them. By bringing together the interests of parties involved through a holistic and collaborative approach, TwynstraGudde is playing an integral part in helping the Dutch public domain […]
Demographic shifts and the rise of tech-led competition are applying pressure to the costs and margins of the world of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, while regulatory scrutiny rises as watchdogs look to clamp down on poor service provision. Joaquim Grau, a Manager at Spanish management consultancy Alfa Consulting, sat with Consultancy.eu to discuss three trends enabling […]
It is becoming more and more common to work freelance or take on short-term employment rather than permanent employment. The dream of freedom, being able to choose your work hours and to prioritise when and how you make a living could be part of the explanation why short-term employments and freelance assignments are becoming increasingly […]
1. The rapid development of the big health industry and the challenge for enterprises to follow the consumption trendChina’s big health industry is entering a good era. With the improvement of disposable income of residents, the health worries brought by urbanization and the current situation of an aging society, the Chinese people have attached more […]
Utilities are the silent enablers of our modern way of life. Every time a switch is flipped, or a computer is powered on, a utility partner is instrumental in making it happen by delivering a jolt of electricity through highly-complex power grids. Now, the utility industry is facing critical challenges driven by impending, mandatory evolution […]
The Revolution in Services Industries Businesses operating in the services industry are on the verge of a seismic change, the likes of which have not been witnessed since the industrial revolution of the manufacturing industry. The introduction of digital technologies to the services sector heralds a fundamental paradigm shift. While the introduction of digital technologies […]