In today’s business climate, attracting and winning top talent has never been more difficult. Unemployment is at an all-time low, and the most recent ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey found that 38 percent of employers are having difficulty filling jobs with a reduced number of applicants per requisition. Here are four ways your organization can invest in your Talent Acquisition function...
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Key Learnings from the EUCI Conference: Optimizing the Interconnection Process for Renewables & Storage Over the summer, West Monroe co-sponsored EUCI’s Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Interconnection conference in Philadelphia. Multiple leaders of the DER interconnection process at major utilities, including PECO, Ameren, and BGE, presented their experiences managing a process with...
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Utility executives looking to recruit the smartest engineering graduates have lots to offer: Tens of billions of dollars of fresh investment pouring into grid modernization and sustainability projects, cutting-edge communications technology, and creating state of the art big data platforms and using machine learning to create insights to improve reliability and increase efficiencies.…
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Nothing Else Matters when you Fuel your customer engagement with Salesforce, the One platform needed to provide the best experience for your customers. See how Metallica Rides the Lightning (Salesforce Lightning) and uses the Salesforce platform to connect with fans. Wherever They May Roam, they will always be connected to their fans.…
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As our business has grown – we recently crossed the 1,000-employee milestone – West Monroe Partners’ Board of Directors has considered how it needs to evolve in order to provide the right level of oversight for the firm we have become and the firm we aspire to be in the future.…
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As business look to gain efficiencies, automation is gaining ground as a differentiator. For example, West Monroe’s Robotic Process Automation offering helps organizations accelerate their digital transformations. The main value driver of automation is allowing top talent to do more ‘high value’ work. In the managed services space, that means delivering a higher level of service to our...
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Our technology teams have worked with clients of all sizes to plan and migrate their applications to cloud hosting environments. While each client’s challenges are different, we’ve seen some common themes and have developed a suite of best practices to address them. Some of our team’s best practices include: A cloud migration is a set of many smaller migrations Taking a...
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The distribution industry is approaching a crossroads. With a workforce that is aging by the day, companies are having a hard time attracting and retaining employees across all levels of their organizations. According to Gallup Daily tracking, only 32% of employees in the U.S. are engaged. Employees are looking for work-life balance, flexibility in time, role, and location, and the opportunity...
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Unemployment rates are at the lowest levels in 18 years. That’s good news for the economy, and even better news for workers – but bad news for companies trying to recruit and retain talent. Instead of preparing for the next downturn, companies are scrambling to find the people they need to grow their businesses right now.…
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Recently, Microsoft released to General Availability, the newest version of Azure Data Factory (which you will see referred to as V2 in Azure). This is a major release that is a huge step up from the previous version of Azure Data Factory (read about the new features here). One of the most interesting new features is support for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages.…
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Over the past five years, I have served as “Chief of Chiefs” in West Monroe’s Chicago Office. The goal of the Chiefs program is quite simple: It is a program created and intended to help foster a culture specific to the interests of each West Monroe office (we have nine of them), while allowing people an opportunity to own and lead.…
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Too often, businesses make important decisions from an inside/out perspective; only thinking about what is important to the business but forgetting about the needs of their customers. How can organizations design something if they do not know who they are designing it for? Whether it is an in-store experience, a new technology, or a process for communicating with customers, businesses need to...
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