Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 28, 2025

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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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Epicflow integrates with project management software like Jira, MS Project, Oracle Primavera, and HRM systems plus provides custom integrations upon the client’s request. Planview supports various work methodologies and is suitable for diverse teams and industries: manufacturing, engineering, IT, healthcare, and finance.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Supply chain management aims to regulate the flow of materials, information, and finances across the entire supply chain. The purpose of inventory management is to make sure that the right material resources are available when needed, minimize storage costs, and reduce the risk of stockouts. Supply chain management. Maintenance management.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. health-care system is striving to get to.” HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

With robust GHG reporting, businesses can integrate sustainability measures into existing financial systems and processes, and this can be achieved effectively through collaboration between finance and sustainability professionals. The article provides an eight-step roadmap to achieve investor-grade GHG reporting.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 2, 2024

It aimed to increase transparency in the financial system, reduce risks, and protect consumers from abusive financial services practices. As the financial industry adapts to these changes, the focus will be on building secure, transparent, and consumer-centric systems that enhance the overall financial ecosystem.

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Markovitz Consulting

JUNE 26, 2017

Yes, the system is pricey, but think of the productivity improvement! Another client of mine invested in a fancy ERP system to help them manage the complexities of their supply chain, and better match supply with demand. If you have a broken process and you add technology, all you get is a faster (and more expensive) broken process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

FinTechs are internet companies that streamline financial systems and make funding the supply chain more efficient. Many FinTechs function as cloud-based software platforms and can enable “procure-to-pay” systems that incorporate both purchasing management and accounts payable functionality.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

To better mobilize businesses as agents of systemic change, new reporting frameworks should be introduced, allowing companies to highlight and be rewarded for their broader societal contributions.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 21, 2014

For those unfamiliar with the term “behavioral economics”, I generally describe behavioral economics as a combination of psychology and a traditional science like economics or finance. How do we know when a commercial or public system has been set up in a behaviorally unfriendly way, and what can or should be done about it?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

As the cryptocurrency has matured, it’s often been criticized for its inability to match the performance of existing payment networks and meet the requirements of financial systems and governments. Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. Transparency with Pseudonymity.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But changes in health care financing are pushing some health systems to take a more holistic approach and address social factors that directly impact patients’ health. health care system has been slow to move beyond pills and procedures. Think of it as the “ community cure ” for health care. But the U.S.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Considers the whole system (vs. They know how to partner well with other functional areas and leverage staff groups such as IT, HR and Finance to facilitate their work. They live beyond the silos and can leverage the value their functional area creates for the good of the whole organization. just functional area) when making decisions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Karen’s communication, and others like it, represent a success for us: We had built a system to assure that we encouraged criticism – in essence inviting patients to speak their minds – so that we could learn and improve.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Halo Psych

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Material boundary How, when, or if you use your own property or finances for work. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008, 2008, Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 107-110. Time boundary How much time you will give to tasks, requests, and other people’s priorities. Liu, Y., & Headrick, L.

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Examples How To Media Journal 123

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2022

Price swings signal important information to investors — and build previously unseen levels of transparency into the system.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

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Transportation System Policies Trends 130

Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Attendees can dive into the latest trends in learning technologies, including learning management systems (LMS), learning experience platforms (LXP), mobile learning, and virtual reality training. Interactive Expo : The DevLearn Expo showcases top L&D providers, presenting the newest tools and platforms to transform your learning approach.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2021

To react quickly later, set up the right systems now.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

And so a transformation is a system of systems, all made up of the most complex system of all — people. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

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Culture Strategy Strategy& Strategy 141

Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

this legislation covers finance and retirement-related considerations. employers, advisors, platforms, systems providers, investment managers). We talked about the recently passed Secure Act 2.0 and potential behavioral implications and impacts on the ecosystem and players. For those unfamiliar with Secure Act 2.0,

Construction 195

Construction Journal Agile Exercises 195

Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Considers the whole system (vs. They know how to partner well with other functional areas and leverage staff groups such as IT, HR and Finance to facilitate their work. They live beyond the silos and can leverage the value their functional area creates for the good of the whole organization. just functional area) when making decisions.

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Leadership Development Construction Finance 213

Chad Barr

JANUARY 8, 2025

These systems won’t just assist in solving problems—they’ll uncover and solve problems we didn’t know existed. Finance: Predicting market trends with near-flawless accuracy. These are intelligent systems designed to act autonomously within businesses.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. A second, separate set of necessary skills deals with systems literacy.

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Training Training Leadership Healthcare 132

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

As a result of the crisis, there was less money available for consumption and investment activity, and businesses found it difficult to re-finance existing loans. This led to economic paralysis and stagnation, and the global financial system remains weak to this day.

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

For example, it is hard to really explore management considerations of behavioral science and ethics without delving into areas like System 1 versus System 2 thinking, nudge controllability, moral psychology, and the like. These management considerations sometimes require a more detailed appreciation of behavioral science.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It is much less obvious, and usually harder, to change the design of a current service system, introduce new customer experiences, or build a better business model — but the return on those investments may be much higher. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

AI-powered recommendation systems are another way businesses are leveraging AI-based technology to enhance the customer experience. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. Supply chain management is another area where AI is revolutionizing operations.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Knowing the ins and outs of upcoming trends in finance is indispensable for any aspiring consultant. A prime example for such a question is how finance is adapting to the issue of climate change, and might assist its mitigation. Green Finance. Final thoughts.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). For instance, financial consultants provide advice to organizations on financial matters. liquidity risk, interest rate risk, default risk).

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 13, 2022

Along the way, complicated systems muddy design because there are so many “who”s to answer to. And now we get to the system problems. This might be as simple as, “buy something cheap,” but it could also have to do with favors owed, financing options or the convenience of delivery. But wait, it gets worse.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table.

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Consulting Strategy Strategy Strategy& 202

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

But in my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. The result?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

AI is already transforming web search, advertising, e-commerce, finance, logistics, media, and more. These A→B systems have been improving rapidly, and the best ones today are built with a technology called deep learning or deep neural networks, which were loosely inspired by the brain. Perhaps soon it will take over the world!)

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