Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language to use when notifying your clients. How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. With the new year just a few weeks away, now might be the time.

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Consulting Policies Benchmarking Examples 354

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

Benchmarking 70

Benchmarking Software B2B Comparison 70

Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward.”. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? Read this action oriented eBook now: GoalPower: How to Increase Personal Performance and Career Success.

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How To Media eBook Benchmarking 115

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Once you understand the different levels of analytical comfort and expertise that exist within your HR team, you can determine how to hire and develop each type of HR professional. HR departments can set learning goals for workers to suggest how many hours of learning they’re expected to complete in a given period.

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Data Development How To Culture 131

Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A deep dive into the strategies behind the Disney magic (and how to use them to enhance your consulting or coaching success) Want to know a secret? Jeff is a former Disney leader and Disney Institute trainer turned consultant and author who has mastered how to apply and scale the Disney principles to organizations of all sizes and industries.

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Benchmarking eBook Consulting Leadership 156

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

And second, they need to ensure that – even with respect to strategy and operations – board scrutiny doesn’t result in an over-emphasis on conforming to benchmarks and industry norms. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Letting your ETR slip to the benchmark could risk your customers’ trust.

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Company Benchmarking Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 126

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

Over the past year, we carried out an online survey of 2,500 reorgs (you can still complete the survey and benchmark your reorg here ). How to make your company more nimble and responsive. What ensures that M&A-driven reorganizations are successful? We took this question to our data. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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How To Accenture Benchmarking Survey 112

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

To get a sense of how successful your recent reorg was, take the survey below. By completing it, you will be able to benchmark your company’s reorg against a number of best practices, identified in our book, ReOrg: How to Get it Right.

Benchmarking 134

Benchmarking Automotive Survey McKinsey 134

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

When tracking a metric use appropriate benchmarks to assess performance, identify progress, and make necessary adjustments. If you are a start up with a 6-month runway (hard cutoff) it’s very different than having a growth target for a new business unit in a large cooperation (acceptable range). Image: Unsplash.

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Metrics Industry Benchmarking How To 88

Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language to use. How to determine your new billing rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. How to do it and when You should probably do it now. for year three.

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Consulting Policies Benchmarking Examples 221

Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

” Then see how well the offer matches up against the responsibilities you’re being asked to take on. “Also, look at what you will be doing, what success looks like, and what benchmarks you’ll be judged against,” he says.

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How To Recruitment Recruiting Case Interview 135

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Benchmarks for Success Measure progress toward the goal. For example, companies can examine how much work external talent does, how key business processes have changed, and changes in the behaviors of people as they plan for work and deliver on their objectives.

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Talent How To Benchmarking Operations 110

LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2025

Highlighting trends, benchmarks, and potential challenges reinforces the business case for change and bolsters trust. Do your leaders know how to lead and manage organizational change? Are you using data to challenge and align your strategic assumptions? The Bottom Line A strategy is only as strong as its believability.

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Research Analysis Strategy Strategy& 67

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Finally, you have constant client interaction which develops “client skills” – from managing client teams to running meetings to learning how to navigate different corporate environments. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

Banking 272

Banking Consulting Boston Consulting Group Management 272

Rick Conlow

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition, do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of successful people? Get eBook now: GoalPower: How to Increase Personal Performance and Career Success. Yet, there is no self-improvement, only increasing in the ability to be all that you already are. Certainly, believe that and you are well on your way.

Emotional Intelligence 118

Emotional Intelligence eBook Benchmarking System 118

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. But the software company asks the customer reference to candidly discuss their purchase process.

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B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 119

On the Brink Podcast

APRIL 4, 2022

Hear how to build a culture that values men and women. Kim Graham Lee is one wonderful woman who is moving in a very important direction — how to build allyship for men and women. The primary focus of IWL's 2022 benchmark study is to take stock of where we are in building better cultures where men and women can support each other.

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Culture Benchmarking How To Study 62

Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language. How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. How to raise your rate and when You should probably do it now. for year three.

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Policies Benchmarking Examples Banking 195

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It can create a relative “pound for pound” benchmark for each individual location of a business, anywhere in the world. By establishing reasonable benchmarks for each individual location, companies will also improve the allocations of time and money needed to help a business grow.

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Data Benchmarking Financial Efficiency 128

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. 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. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Culture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 140

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Advice on how to improve one’s self is everywhere. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. In some cases, we benchmark against those who are more capable or accomplished, which can be counterproductive when we fail to match them. HBR staff/Bettmann Collection/Getty Images.

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Benchmarking Comparison Research Sports 134

Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How to determine your new rate Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula. Do the math a few different ways and see how these numbers play out. Do some market-rate benchmarking to learn what other consultants are charging, or what clients are paying. How to do it and when You should probably do it now.

Policies 195

Policies Benchmarking Examples Consulting 195

Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. Let me know if you’d like me to write about how to determine your billing rate. The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. This is your market rate.

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Consulting Real Estate Policies Operations 236

BCG

APRIL 11, 2017

At one extreme, benchmarks of financial inclusion track only the share of adults who have opened a basic transaction account. Properly assessing financial inclusion calls for balancing extremes. Financial inclusion is a complex topic. Currently available tools that measure it are either too simple or too academic.

Financial 60

Financial Insurance Insurance Benchmarking 60

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

After researching over 100 early stage ventures, we began to understand why startups hit a cultural chasm and how to navigate it. This time, the firm ranked in the top quartile of all companies and handily beat our benchmark. Two distinct sets emerged. Afterward, management re-asked the staff to rate the company’s transparency.

Culture 133

Culture Benchmarking Company Sales 133

Rick Conlow

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition, do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of successful people? Get eBook now: GoalPower: How to Increase Personal Performance and Career Success. Certainly, believe that and you are well on your way. If so, check out this complimentary inventory and guide: Success Practices.

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Emotional Intelligence eBook Benchmarking System 99

Management Consulted

AUGUST 27, 2012

We give you an overview on how to be prepared, then cover specifics on exactly what to do at the event, what questions to ask, and what to do once the session’s over. Follow our tips to ensure your resume makes it into the interview pile, not the trash. Now let’s deep dive into the resume. 4 Find a consulting-specific provider.

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Resumes Cover Letters Consulting Recruitment 138

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

So the search for insight can be thought of as the effort to understand how something complicated really works by analyzing its data. How to search for insight ? Using your current understanding of how the system works, make certain predictions. However, when I compared this with benchmarks (i.e. Hypothesis.

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Data How To Banking System 60

Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Benchmarking: When projects require extensive back-office or benchmarking figures, it may make sense to rely on a more traditional consulting firm. Independent consultants aren’t likely to have benchmark data on hand. The post How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant appeared first on COMATCH.

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Consulting Management How To Benchmarking 52

Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. In our book Strategy That Works we articulate what those capabilities can look like, how to blueprint and build them, and how to bring them to scale. Our recommendations include: Be skeptical of benchmarking.

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Productivity Company Enterprise Retail 129

Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

If meeting takt time is not an issue—for example, in closing the books at the end of the month— then measure and benchmark the time it takes to perform those tasks and challenge the team to figure out how to do them faster. Start treating offices errors and mistakes as real defects. Obsess over quality.

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Engineering Benchmarking Meeting Case Study 133

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

Drawing on our academic research assessing repurposed data sources, as well as our work with organizations, we see that simple guiding principles can help companies understand how to successfully repurpose their data. Choose a broadly accepted benchmark, and set a narrow goal to see whether and where you can meaningfully add value.

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Data Company Benchmarking Real Estate 71

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

It’s also going to be a lot harder to benchmark the offer they give you against salaries at other firms. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. If you don’t know how to do something, you can tap into a training budget that will let you develop your skills at conferences or workshops in fun cities.

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Culture Financial Accenture Benchmarking 134

Management and IT Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

SPI Research 2018 Benchmark Report and Infographic] Learn the top finance and operational KPIs that make the best consulting firms succeed.

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Financial Benchmarking Consulting Finance 40

Management and IT Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Includes SPI Research 2018 Benchmark Report and Infographic Learn the top sales and marketing KPIs that drive growth and successful client relationships.

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Benchmarking How To Sales Consulting 40

Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2021

How to Create Typical Slides. Below we explore the basics of how to build eleven typical slides that are used in a business context. Identify and “bucket” the key benchmarked items and players. Benchmarking. Aggregate and “elevate” the learning from benchmarking. Setup Slide. Avoid crowding.

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Benchmarking Case Interview Groups Analysis 88

LSA Global

MAY 26, 2021

What’s Your “How to Sell to Executives” Score? How successful have you been, really, in gaining access to and closing deals with executive-level buyers? Believable differentiation in terms of cost, quality, speed, or approach is how you gain an advantage over the others hoping to close a deal. Okay, fess up.

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