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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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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

This article explains how to determine your “base rate”, and the external factors that will impact your pricing. Links to articles on how to raise your rate or switch to a fixed fee are at the end of this one.) Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence.

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Missing the AI Boat: The High Cost of Staying Behind

Chad Barr

Business Operations : Virtual assistants scheduling meetings, automating reminders, and handling repetitive tasks seamlessly. This kind of tailored experience is now a benchmark—and a reminder of what’s possible when businesses embrace AI. Optimize : Regularly review and refine the impact of AI on your operations.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

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.

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

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. It’s a matter of what they’re used to and their operating margins. The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are lots of ways to do this.

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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.