David A Fields
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Every consulting project follows a distinct flow, especially from the client’s point of view. Can you improve the flow—and the value—of your consulting projects? Probably. Let’s take a look. Chances are, your consulting projects are structured like one or more of the following examples: Intervention These are in-and-out, hard-hitting projects.
Successful Independent Consulting
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Have you ever dreamed about starting something and the idea just won’t go away? You give yourself all sorts of reasons not to pursue it. “I don’t have time.” “Someone else has probably already done it.” “It’s too big. I’ll never be able to accomplish it.” “I can’t commit to another thing!” Or in my case, “I hate to write.” But the idea still won’t go away.
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Clarity Consultants
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Today’s hiring managers are fighting against an obstacle that has plagued the recruiting process for years, the skills gap. College graduates and even experienced professionals are lacking the latest skills and training that is required to meet the quickly changing demands of their employers. This is a very real problem that even big-name employers like Microsoft and Google are struggling with on a daily basis.
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 4, 2016
Today, we continue our series of book reviews with a look at Beyond the E-Myth, the latest in a long line of great books by Michael Gerber (a marketing genius who has built a world-wide web of products and services to help small businesses grow). Beyond the E-Myth releases December 7, 2016, so make sure to grab your copy! Our author today is one of our fabulous interns, one of our writers and a whiz at everything social media.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Process optimization can transform user experience. Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. The idea was simple: Instead of making buyers go through the entire online ordering sequence only to find stock-outs or delivery delays, why not alert them to prod
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David A Fields
DECEMBER 7, 2016
The moment immediately after a prospect becomes a client your consulting project begins. Beginnings matter. Which is why the best practices to start your projects are discussed below. Consider some famous beginnings: “Four score and seven years ago…”** “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”** “Call me Ishmael.
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 31, 2016
Three ideas for the new year. 1. Plan a Celebration. It is common at the turn of a new year to set “resolutions” for things you want to do, change, or achieve in your life. The problem with new year’s resolutions is that, if they had been really important to you, you would have set them earlier without needing the new year as a prompt.
Clarity Consultants
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Your employees are often the single greatest training resource available for new hires. But sometimes, it’s hard to get that one-on-one facetime that is so critical to helping people learn the ropes. Even team members who have been around for a while can benefit from the crowd-sourced information available from a larger group of compatriots. Here’s how internal microblogging can tap into that well of information and how it serves as an excelent learning technology tool.
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 18, 2016
One of the most daunting things about case interviews is the uncertainty you’re faced with as you step inside the door. You have no way of knowing what they’re going to ask you, and they could ask you absolutely anything they want to. What if your interviewer is having a bad day and just feels like asking impossible questions?! Well, that’s what our frameworks are for.
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 30, 2016
In most organizations, culture and strategy tend to be discussed in separate conversations. Executives know that culture is important and that a negative culture can hurt company performance, but they often don’t know what to do about it. Or they attempt to improve the situation by launching a culture initiative to “make the workplace more positive.” What most executive teams typically fail to do is to connect the company’s culture with how the company makes its strategy
BCG
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Focus Tuesday, December 06, 2016. New technologies are profoundly changing industrial production, giving rise to “the factory of the future.” What will the factory of the future be like with respect to its structure, technologies, and processes? What enablers will manufacturers need in terms of strategy and leadership, employee skills, and IT infrastructure to make it a reality?
David A Fields
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Many readers know that I’m 6’1″ tall… if my posture is perfect, I think tall thoughts and I stand on two tins of homemade, coconut dream bars. Is that tall? Short? I only know if I have some sort of standard for comparison. Consultants often look at benchmarks to gauge their recent performance. Those are internal benchmarks.
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 17, 2016
This is a guest post from Marguerite Arnold. It is not just the stunning reversal of fortune for Hillary Clinton at the beginning of November which has stimulated a renewed interest in more diversity in the world of start-ups, and FinTech in particular. The conversation has been underway for quite some time. Part of the drive for diversity, to be honest, is caused by a failure of women to rise to the top in most large businesses – including the financial services, banking or tech industries, des
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Clarity Consultants
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Big data means big business in today’s highly competitive job market. If you’re not making use of your information, you could be missing out. Industry experts claim that integrating big data with your HR training and develpment system can help leverage employee data to improve operational performance, identify new recruits and increase return on investment in human capital.
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. Uber is a San Francisco-based start-up that has been turning heads since its launch in 2009, “bringing people and their cities closer.” The first example that comes to mind when you think of the new sharing economy, Uber has fashioned itself as a quicker, cheaper and ultimately better alternative to taxis.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 27, 2016
If you’ve ever received feedback that you “need to be more strategic,” you know how frustrating it can feel. To add insult to injury, the feedback rarely comes with any concrete guidance on what to do about it. One of my coaching clients, Lisa, a vice president of HR, was in this situation and explains, “I was just told to think bigger picture and to be more strategic.
BCG
DECEMBER 12, 2016
Article Monday, December 12, 2016. Companies’ lifespans are shorter than ever before. Digital disruption has become so intense that pure players in digital are no longer disrupting just incumbents, they are disrupting other pure players as well: HomeAway has emerged as a strong rival to Airbnb. Apple Music is nipping at the heels of Spotify’s streaming music service.
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David A Fields
DECEMBER 28, 2016
As the final moments of the year tick down, you cast your gaze ’round the revelers gathered nearby (or perhaps at the intrepid-yet-nuts throngs televised from Times Square). Wide-eyed, overtired children and adults in various states of inebriation mumble the words to Auld Lang Syne, a song no one actually knows or understands.
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 24, 2016
Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! Sheng Dan Kuai Le! (圣诞快乐! ). Wishing you an enjoyable day, and a happy holiday season spent with good people, surplus amounts of food and drinks, and a large number of gifts! One idea that is firmly associated with Christmas is gift giving. This is a central part of the Christian tradition, and also has an important place in broader Western culture, which retailers are obviously happy to encourage and embrace.
Clarity Consultants
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Your learning and development process is critical to your long-term success as an organization. Every business experiences the ebbs and flows of changing talent and market demands, but it is the companies who are invested in growing and improving their offerings to keep pace with the desires of their customers who are able to succeed. A chief concern in the development of your training program should be encouraging experimentation and innovation.
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 11, 2016
SIMON-KUCHER & PARTNERS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE. Simon-Kucher & Partners is relatively small firm based in Bonn, Germany. Though the firm’s background is exclusively in pricing, in more recent years it has been breaking into other practice areas such as strategy, marketing, and sales. The firm has been growing rapidly, expanding across Europe and the U.S., and has landed some pretty huge clients like American Express, Barnes & Noble, BMW, Intel, LinkedIn, PayPal, PepsiCo, and Porsc
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Harvard Business
DECEMBER 30, 2016
At the start of 2016, I asked myself one question: “How can I make achieving my professional growth goals effortless?” I found the answer was elegantly simple — by focusing on alignment goals. Many people fail on their professional development goals for the year because they take on a lot of goals — goals that they feel they “should” do but ultimately don’t energize them.
BCG
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Focus Monday, December 05, 2016. Spend a minute with Jean-Pascal Tricoire, the chairman and CEO of Schneider Electric, as he describes the opportunities that digital technologies have opened up for his electrical-equipment company: “Connectivity is not new for us. We started to connect things to the internet in 1995. But what is happening today is that we are connecting from power plant to plug—everything connected to the internet.
Strategy+Business
DECEMBER 4, 2016
By focusing your attention on the "high road" of the mind, you can become the kind of leader who helps improve the world. Most leadership is transactional, formed through the habits of conventional success. High road-style leadership cultivates different types of mental patterns, developing your ability to see yourself as others see you. See also "How Strategic Leaders Use Their Brain.
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 21, 2016
This is a guest post from John Cole. Being boss doesn’t mean you get to demand results – it means creating the conditions for those results to be achieved. If you’re running your own business and are responsible for a team, you’ve probably cast a judgmental eye over some of the trendy quirks and gimmicks that your contemporaries in some of the better-known start-ups have applied to their workspaces.
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Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c
MishTalk
DECEMBER 1, 2016
A Gallup poll shows trust in mainstream media fell to a record low 32%. Trust has been on the decline since 1972. (more…).
Seth Godin Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Your smartphone has two jobs. On one hand, it was hired by you to accomplish certain tasks. In the scheme of things, it's a screaming bargain and a miracle. But most of the time, your phone works for corporations, assorted acquaintances and large social networks. They've hired it to put you to work for them. You're not the customer, you're the product.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Enron. Wells Fargo. Volkswagen. It’s hard for good, ethical people to imagine how these meltdowns could possibly happen. We assume it’s only the Ken Lays and Bernie Madoffs of the world who will cheat people. But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission?
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