In this post, Sachin Sanghvi shares a company video that explains how they helped Quest Diagnostics transition to new ways of working. Access the video on LinkedIn.
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Gautam Jay Bar. Jay is a strategy and operations executive and former McKinsey Associate Principal with experience helping tech-enabled services companies improve their sales and operational performance. Over the past 20+ years, Jay has helped several Fortune 500 companies with strategic planning, sales enablement, operational improvement, shared services/centers of excellence […]
Gerd Schenkel takes a look forward to the role of AI and suggests government controlled training. We expect AI to make a big breakthrough in the next little while. Machines will drive ever growing parts of our lives. The difference to ordinary computer programs is that AIs will make decisions that are less predictable and […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Pratik Killa with Kaya Solutions Consulting. Pratik is a seasoned consulting professional with a proven track record of driving transformation and growth across diverse industries. With expertise in strategic advisory, operational excellence, and project management, he has led several impactful initiatives for government and corporate clients worldwide. As the Founder […]
Supriya Sen shares an article on diversity and inclusion and female entrepreneurship in the age of AI. The month has been peppered with a lot of discussion about international women’s day and its relevance to our modern milieu. While some have questioned whether such a day is necessary when women constitute 50% of the population- […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome William Teslik. Will has 15 years of experience in wide-ranging strategy roles . After Harvard undergrad, he began his career at Bain & Co., followed by a move in-house to Mattel’s Corporate Strategy team. He went on to pursue his MBA at UCLA Anderson, spent several years at start-ups, and […]
Andrew Seay posts his thoughts on unionizing workers in the automotive industry. VW-Chattanooga has voted to unionize. A sign of good things to come for workers? Or, a sign of how much progress they’ve already made? Let’s get the obvious part out of the way: of course, the UAW will drive wage growth which will […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Javier Perez-Orive. An experienced McKinsey consultant (New Jersey Office), pharmaceutical commercial executive (Novartis Switzerland, Latin America, Canada), and neuroscientist (Caltech), with global knowledge and deep familiarity of the Americas and Europe, Javier Perez-Orive is now an independent consultant serving pharmaceutical and life science industry clients on strategic, commercial, and analytical […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Andreas Klotz with AK Consulting & Associates. Andreas is a strategy and transformation executive with extensive experience within mgmt. and technology consulting as well as industry. Andreas had worked at Accenture for 5 years in system integration before joining BCG following his MBA at University of Michigan. At BCG Andreas […]
In this concise post, Amanda Setili shares a story of breaking the rules that led to a career breakthrough. Yes, that’s me leading a meeting in the Oval Office. Except that this version of the Oval Office is at the 330-acre Tyler Perry Studios in Southwest Atlanta. As an example, here’s Tyler himself explaining to […]
Alexander Sharpe shares information and several resources on cybersecurity and the device pillar. Another excellent piece from our colleagues at NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center. Advancing Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Device Pillar can be found here: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Oct/19/2003323562/-1/-1/0/CSI-DEVICE-PILLAR-ZERO-TRUST.PDF This is the collaboration center’s second piece on the Zero Trust pillars. The first was “Advancing Zero Trust […]
Andy Sheppard offers leadership advice to ensure employee performance is not stunted by excessive control. The main idea expressed in the Leader’s Control Curve (above) is that leaders need to maintain a healthy balance of control. Too little, and our organisations can remain out of control. Too much, and we can stunt the very performance […]