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How to Set Transformation Targets That Actually Drive Change

Harvard Business

The key practices are: changing leadership’s mindset around targets; specifying targets in absolute, not relative, terms; using the company’s budget or operating plan to monitor success; and setting more than cost-based targets.

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How To Help Ensure Strategy Scorecards Don’t Fail You

Steve Shu Consulting

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). . How can you use them more effectively? The figure below shows an illustrative scorecard for a company.

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How to Get Results Quickly After a Merger or Acquisition

Harvard Business

But compared to other areas of post-merger activity, the commercial engine starts late, operates uncertainly, and often runs out of gas before reaching its goals.

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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

For example, if you do change management work on big system implementations, you may lose $50,000 or more. On-Demand by RGP : Specializes in operational and implementation support; projects tend to be longer-term roles focusing on functional expertise like accounting, finance, HR, IT, and supply chain.

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How to Figure Out Your Consulting Bill Rate

Successful Independent Consulting

Field of expertise — Consultants who can diagnose problems and create sound strategies and actionable plans can charge more than those who focus on more tactical work like project management. As a general rule, the more strategic — or frankly, the more mysterious — the work is perceived to be by the client, the more they are willing to pay.

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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.) Do an internet search such as “typical hourly rate for change management consultant in [your location].”

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Why Isn’t Your Strategy Sticking?

Harvard Business

In this article, the author explains how to shift from an operational to a contextual mindset so that you can better identify the hidden obstacles that may be thwarting your strategy’s implementation so you can address them before they take root.

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