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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. Next, analyze the data and develop actionable strategies to improve the business.

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Why Your Productivity Hacks Don’t Hack It

Markovitz Consulting

You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). I would argue that most productivity improvements belong there as well.

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Easier Product Development Decisions and Why Backlogs Might Slow You Down (Day 3)

Johanna Rothman

First, my WIP status: 4 presentations still (no change from yesterday). I don't have just one product for my business. And I'm not a team working on just one feature set or a product. They need team (including the product leader) agreements, and management agreements, and support agreements. What happened?

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. At a $500M footwear company I once worked with, the founder and CEO—long removed from his role product development—decided that he didn’t like a particular style his product team had designed, developed, and purchased.

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How Cycle Time and Cost of Delay Makes Product Development Decisions Easier (Day 2)

Johanna Rothman

Here's where I stand with my WIP: I completed one presentation, so I have 4 remaining. The four presentations range in duration from 15 to 90 minutes. My normal cycle time for presentations is roughly three times the duration of the presentation. As I said in my Day 1 post, my WIP is too high. Also the novella.

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How You Can Find More Ease in Your Product Development (Day 5)

Johanna Rothman

In case you're wondering, here's my current status: 3 presentations still on the list (I completed 2, including the one I recorded). I still have a bunch of writing plus those three presentations remaining on my list. And how long it takes me to create a presentation. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team.

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Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve

Harvard Business

Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not only broadened access to funding to companies that might struggle in the capital markets but have also transformed the way companies connect with consumers during product development, replacing focus groups with real customers who have a stake in the final product.