Tom Spencer

JULY 4, 2020

Every year strategy consulting firms and agencies that specialise in executive business management and the “maximising shareholder value” approach receive billions of dollars for their services (Management Consulting, 2020). Reading Time: 3 minutes. Are consulting firms about more than just advising management? Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2018

.” And for those in manufacturing or production companies, the future may arrive even sooner. ” Machine learning algorithms are also predicted to replace people responsible for “optical part sorting, automated quality control, failure detection, and improved productivity and efficiency.” Insight Center.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

Read on if you'd like some instant validation that consulting is right for you and insight into the predictable challenges that most consultants face and strategies for overcoming hidden barriers to success. The best part of being a consultant is] being responsible for making a difference in the performance of others with my strategies.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 15, 2020

I’ve bought $2500 products without ever speaking to a salesperson. It was the content surrounding the product that sold me — automated emails, blog posts, YouTube videos — not a salesperson. Good content marketing and copywriting can sell your products and services for you. And what makes an inbound marketing strategy ideal?

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 22, 2020

Think of inbound marketing as a long-term strategy. And when it does, there is no better marketing strategy. You’re better off launching an imperfect “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP) version of your website. What are good examples of productized services? WP Curve (WordPress productized service).

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Tsavo Neal

JUNE 12, 2020

This is Productized Consulting. With productized consulting, you’re upfront about the fact that you use recycled solutions. Recycled solutions that work are a product of your expertise. It’s a long-term strategy. The post Friday Fusion: June 12, 2020 appeared first on Tsavo Neal. Content marketing is hard.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. With more and more options for mobile interactions, businesses all too often get their digital strategy wrong — or don’t reassess it often enough. Insight Center. Think about Airbnb.

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 10, 2020

The second is positioning , marketing best practices, and lead generation strategies to find clients who need you and would find it difficult to locate a suitable substitute. Shift ALL of the focus of the call from you (or your product) to your prospect. You can sell your product through: Face to face meetings Landing pages Emails.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! If you can show your potential customers that your past customers made the right choice buying your product/service, your potential customers will follow their lead. Would you recommend this product/service?

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

And Tiago Forte, productivity expert and founder of Forte Labs, tells a great story about how he was once instructed to hire a candidate — and he was handed two piles of resumes: Those with a website Those without a website (which went straight to the trash can). Think “strategy sessions” instead of “sales calls.” Learn to build.

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Tsavo Neal

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

How do you learn SEO strategies to rank your website to the top? The post Friday Fusion: November 27, 2020 appeared first on Tsavo Neal. My favorite place to learn about SEO is Ahrefs. They have a superb blog and YouTube channel. Out of the thousands of resources to learn SEO, what makes Ahrefs the best? How do you practice it?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 23, 2015

2020 Delivery is a management consultancy committed to improving public services and bringing about lasting change within public sector organisations. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Mike Meredith who is a Director at 2020 Delivery, and leads the firm’s people development function. We don’t have a New York office.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 7, 2020

My favorite tools and subscriptions also tend to be what I find the easiest to use and has the functionality I need to deliver my content/products : Website/Content: WordPress Lead Capture: OptinMonster Email Marketing & Automation: ActiveCampaign eCommerce: WooCommerce. How can I build myself into a personal brand?

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 31, 2020

LinkedIn : On LinkedIn, people expect to learn about your B2B products or services on LinkedIn. And you can only create an outcome when you have a strategy for doing so. The post Friday Fusion: July 31, 2020 appeared first on Tsavo Neal. It forces you to think about making your writing useful. Then we refine the brand messaging.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Team 1 started this project on Jan 1, 2020. The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy. Those strategy discussions needed to happen and now. The strategy wasn't set in stone (why would it be?), Let's walk through the data for Team 1.

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Tsavo Neal

MAY 8, 2020

As I write in my first book, Productize Yourself: The Consultant’s Guide To Attracting Clients Through Your Website : Consulting has, and always will be, a relationship business. “The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. The portal and program are working. After all, social media is too important to be left to marketing.

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Tsavo Neal

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The most effective networking strategy I’ve found has nothing to do with conferences, cocktail hours, cold emails, or any of the common ideas you hear. The best strategy is the one that you will make a habit out of. If you want a start a company of your own — but you don’t want to do client work— consider productizing your skills.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.” This should lead to new strategies and, with them, new business-critical roles. Take insurance, for example.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

The primary goal of becoming a data-driven organization is to improve decision making, which in turn will provide customers with better products or services and as a result increase profitability and facilitate business growth. . Make sure that your company has the right data strategy . Combining flexible databases (e.g.,

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Choose to balance your available hours, making each one count to be as productive and creative as possible while still enjoying the things that life has provided that brings you personal joy. What are the 12 growth insights and strategies that will transform your success? There is a treasure-trove waiting to be discovered.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This revolution will transform India the same way automobiles changed America 100 years ago but at ten times the speed — computers, laptops, and tablets will be marginalized as India leapfrogs to mobile 4G by 2020. In order to create value in India in the coming decade, companies must have a mobile-first strategy.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The axiom has always been to start with a clear strategy if you want to design a sound organization. But, is detailed strategy work even relevant in a world where the external environment is continually changing, requiring companies to regularly shift direction and priorities? Both strategy and organization have to be dynamic.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

workforce — are now freelancers or contractors, and that number is projected to rise to 43% by 2020. Here are five strategies to keep in mind. That was my strategy as well. That focus “is the only way that you can build a solid base and then conquer other traffic channels or other products,” he says.

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Buzzsprout

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And if you have the budget, investing in a production company can be a huge time-saver that lets you focus on other aspects of your podcast's content and promotion. Here are the top 15 podcast production companies organized by category!

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. This makes corporate strategy an enormous and untapped prize for “robos” and “AI-enabled” expert advice across the entire enterprise; this market is ripe for disruption much the way the financial investing industry was in 2008. ZB by 2020.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Innovation start-ups are a practical starting point for familiarising yourself with the industry, since they rarely have the budgets for hiring major strategy firms, and therefore often welcome volunteer consultants. Copycats and Patenting Strategy. There are two weaknesses to such a strategy.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2025

Consumers are no longer swayed by just a great product, but seek more than that, craving authenticity and a genuine connection to the brand. Success Story One: Aimee Smale Aimee Smale , ex-ASOS employee, founded Odd Muse in 2020, a London clothing brand that aims to steer consumers away from fast fashion and toward quality basics.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

First, I have been talking for the last few episodes about the importance of not just identifying your ideal client but getting in their hearts and minds so you can position yourself, products/services, and copy to connect with them. Learn more about my Brand Positioning and Messaging strategy services: [link].

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 31, 2020

One thing Jen Hamilton (my COO) and I are doing to help both our existing and new clients is forming a think tank so that smart consultants and coaches can work together to co-create relevant and powerful business recovery solutions and use our time productively to up-level our own business foundations. So what about you? The Bottom-line.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2021

A 2020 survey found that 92% of workers shortened, postponed, or canceled their planned time off. What’s more, taking time off has a positive impact on productivity, performance, intrinsic motivation , and creativity. (A The COVID-19 pandemic served to exacerbate this trend. Back to my conversation with Amy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Survey-based reports find that firms are currently spending an estimated $36 billion on storage and infrastructure, and that is expected to double by 2020. The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. Predicting demand.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2021

Tsipursky cautions that these biases are causing leaders to “fall victim to mental oversight,” and “doing what they feel comfortable with, even if it devastates employee morale, engagement, and productivity; seriously undercuts retention and recruitment; and harms diversity and inclusion. With remote work lifting productivity in the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Now, the 2020 global pandemic teaches us that we need to review our beliefs about just-in-time logistics. The solution was the Toyota Production System (TPS), which revolutionised industrial logistics by popularizing its core functioning principle, just-in-time production. Just-in-time production eliminates those costs.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Augmented Reality and Strategy. According to the Harvard Business Review , investment spending on AR technology looks set to reach $60 billion in 2020. Boeing has adopted AR and seen increased productivity and quality in their training process. Tourism Ministries are working on recovery packages and strategies to boost tourism.

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