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In 2001, Warner Bros. recognized that traditional ways of storing and sharing content, and the informal and labor-intensive distribution networks that supported them, could be transformed into a single, totally integrated digital operation.

Picasso had oils and canvas. Donatello had raw stone and bronze. And you? Consultants have PowerPoint.

Based on the latest American Community Survey data, just over 2 percent of the U.S. employee workforce (2.8 million people, not including self-employed or unpaid volunteers) considers home their primary place of work. Over the past few years the concept of the virtual work environment has evolved from something less highly regarded to becoming a real and effective way for companies to position their talent.

In the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, one of my business school professors commented that before the crisis all of his students wanted to be investment bankers, but now they all wanted to be consultants. This renewed interest in the profession is not surprising, and I believe that many are still drawn to consulting for the same reasons I was initially: to help clients solve hard problems.

Great leaders don’t work; they facilitate and orchestrate, says Keith Murningham, author of the aptly named

Without a governance structure, IT management at many hospitals and health systems is a haphazard process that typically results in late, over budget projects and, ultimately, fragmented systems.