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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

People who market themselves as independent professionals and operate as small businesses can charge more than those who work as subcontractors. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Do an internet search such as “typical hourly rate for change management consultant in [your location].”

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How To Help Ensure Strategy Scorecards Don’t Fail You

Steve Shu Consulting

For example, should a benchmarking framework be used? In the scorecard below, I’ve also depicted areas where the company needs to make improvements (operational and tactical focus) and where the company needs to differentiate longer-term (strategic focus). . Or will that framework lead us down a path of mediocrity?

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Strategic Believability: A Research-Backed Guide

LSA Global

Alignment with Ways of Working, Resources, and Capabilities We know from leadership simulation assessment data that too many leaders ignore cultural and operational realities. Strategies that clash with organizational culture or overlook operational constraints are unlikely to gain traction.

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. workforce and 14% of the European workforce operate as freelance professionals. .

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change. It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Financial performance.

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Mastering Change: 8 Steps for Aligning Top Leadership for Change

LSA Global

It demands aligning top leadership for change to guide those affected by change through the inevitable ups and downs of organizational transformation. The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results.