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How To Help Ensure Strategy Scorecards Don’t Fail You

Steve Shu Consulting

For many strategy engagements, a lot of attention is paid to the detailed analysis framework. For example, should a benchmarking framework be used? Regardless of strategy technique, one key output of these efforts is often a scorecard summary. Or will that framework lead us down a path of mediocrity? A scorecard is tangible.

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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Reassess your pricing strategy as your experience and confidence increase.

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Strategic Believability: A Research-Backed Guide

LSA Global

The Importance of Strategic Believability: Is Your Strategy Believable Enough? An effective business strategy should help to create a competitive advantage. We know from organizational alignment research that strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

Whether it’s an executive, an entrepreneur, or a technologist, some innovator changes the game, and that which was thought to be unreachable becomes a benchmark, something for others to shoot for. In business, progress does not move in straight lines.

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LSA Global Increases Change Management Skills for ERP Implementation at High Growth Financial Services Firm

LSA Global

Enable Change Management Implementation Support the team with implementing the change plan so that “hearts and minds” portion of the ERP implementation is successful. Build Communication Frame Create a Master Frame for Change Communication Strategy to engage key stakeholders to be used and completed during Change Training.

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When ‘Best Practices’ Backfire

Harvard Business

Freek Vermeulen, an associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the London Business School, argues that too many companies are following so-called best practices that are actually holding them back. Vermeulen is the author of Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business. Download this podcast.