Each year, Business Talent Group releases our High-End Independent Talent Report, looking across industries and business functions to analyze how business leaders deploy independent consultants, executives, experts, and project managers to complete critical work and meet their goals. Here are the top trends in how operations leaders deployed these highly skilled talent in 2020.
From AI to IoT, new processes and technologies hold a lot of promise. But how best to take advantage of them? Operations leaders are turning to independent experts for practical advice on data center consolidation, last-mile delivery, and forecasting—as well as project management support to successfully implement the changes.
PROJECT CATEGORIES: Operations
| 45% Operations |
| 34% Strategy |
| 12% Transformation |
| 5% Interim Executive |
| 4% Organization |
MOST IN-DEMAND PROJECTS
Business Processes
Supply Chain
Business Intelligence and Analytics
Digital Strategy
Manufacturing Excellence
Change Management
Interim Executive
IT and Tech Transformation
MOST IN-DEMAND SKILLS
Project Management
Process Optimization and Transformation
Program Management Office (PMO)
Supply Chain
Tech and Systems Implementation
Advanced Analytics
Manufacturing Strategy
SAMPLE OPERATIONS PROJECTS
- Develop processes for the operating model of a new business function
- Provide process improvement recommendations to facilitate decentralization of engineering teams and their corresponding systems
- Project manage the implementation of a company-wide data center consolidation and cloud migration
- Analyze the last-mile delivery process and potential ROI of implementing a new process
- Identify forecasting improvements to better predict revenue in a volatile and complex environment
