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How to Develop Your Tagline to Win More Work

Successful Independent Consulting

Narrowing your niche is an important step in the right direction, but you’ll also want to develop a tagline as part of your branding. After helping hundreds of solopreneurs, I’ve developed this formula: (What You Do) + (The Result) Step 1: Select the keywords that best reflect your expertise (What You Do). You get the idea.

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4 Skills the Next Generation of Data Scientists Needs to Develop

Harvard Business

As reliance on data and analytics continues to expand across industries from agriculture to manufacturing, health care to financial services, it stands to reason that the next generation of data leaders will have far-reaching roles that impact strategy, decision-making, operations, and countless other functions.

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When It Comes to Long-Term Value, Incumbents Should Think Like Digital Disruptors

Harvard Business

5) Launch a data and AI-enabled omnichannel customer outreach program, and 6) Transform KPIs, structure, and incentives.

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How Companies Can Champion Sustainable Development

Harvard Business

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. The problem is that the private sector is not easily organized to create or bolster public goods.

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Book review: "Steady Work," by Karen Gaudet

Markovitz Consulting

when the lean operating system she helped install enabled the staff at the Starbucks stores around Newtown, CT manage the chaos and trauma around the Newtown massacre. John Shook of the Lean Enterprise Institute has often talked about the problem of unregulated “employee empowerment.” And they succeeded at that.

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. The head of operations chimed in: His five most recent checkouts had complained about breakfast, and the cost of compensating guests for disappointing experiences was getting out of control. Insight Center.

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#8: 5 Reasons Why EVERY Consultant Needs Systems Thinking

Consulting Matters

You may have found your way to consulting as a result of developing an expertise within a specific functional area like marketing, sales or operations and now are being invited to contribute towards projects that affect the entire enterprise.

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