Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.”

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Increase class sizes slowly over time, ensuring everyone starts off with a bit more space as they get used to gathering in groups. Even if you take reasonable precautions and reintroduce in-person training strategically, not everyone will be comfortable gathering in groups. That way, it will feel more comfortable as class sizes grow.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. MBB (McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group) are the three leading management consulting firms, and offer clients a combination of reliability, high quality, and very strategic recommendations. How do Consulting Firms Work?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 17, 2020

Understands how the culture and power networks operate within the client system. Can establish relationships and networks across a broad range of people and groups and is effective at working with powerful people. Helps clients anticipate the Customer/Client, Employee, and Financial/Operational impact of business decisions.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

I was asked to lead a massive initiative at Disney to help the operations executives redefine the guest/cast and cast/leader experience. I'll never forget the moment when I first fell in love with corporate politics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. following the introduction of checklists. The result?

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2013

First, a 101 on strategy consulting for you newbies to the site – having an insider view into the strategy and operations of a company requires that you quickly become an expert on day-to-day activities in light of the overall company vision. 2) Strategy consulting offers the opportunity to work for a global corporation’s CEO.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Team Interdependence for Higher Performance: How to Foster Collaboration Many people believe that placing a group of high performers together will result in high performance. First Things First: Are We a Team or a Working Group? Effective working groups have high levels of independence and individual accountability.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Definition of a Team at Work While many groups are called “teams,” not every working group needs to behave like a team to achieve their objectives. In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

When I was an organizational development consultant for Disney, I worked with the Imagineers and Operators. The Operators viewed Imagineers as people who had their heads in the sky, and Imagineers viewed Operators as so focused on day to day that they couldn't see the big picture. First, we addressed Agendas and Biases.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2019

The team was poring over the guest research when the most senior operations and creative executives looked at each other across the table and said at the same time, “You know what – we need to be a DISNEY theme park.” But like everyone else who operates in their zone of genius, I blew it off and minimized it.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Bain’s clients in the Middle East include a who’s who of prominent listed companies, government institutions, family owned conglomerates, and international groups. A couple of notable clients include international group MENA (Middle East North Africa), the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), and the government of Egypt.

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Clarity Consultants

OCTOBER 19, 2023

L&D leaders have been instrumental in helping employers and employees pivot to pandemic protocols and navigate both remote and hybrid operations and corporate culture. The survey provided insight into how job seeker motivation varies across age groups. For individuals, agility fuels career growth and relevance.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. On the business side, the escalation process has provided improved visibility into operations.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Wiser: Getting beyond groupthink to make groups smarter. But this discussion isn’t limited to Secure Act 2.0…. “Reducing Savings Gaps Through Pennies Versus Percent Framing.”

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Effective Managers

JUNE 14, 2024

Peer Advisory Groups: The Power of Collective Wisdom One of the core offerings of TEC Canada is its Peer Advisory Groups. These groups are a unique assembly of leaders from diverse, non-competing industries who come together to share experiences, challenge each other’s thinking, and provide invaluable support.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 14, 2024

Peer Advisory Groups: The Power of Collective Wisdom One of the core offerings of TEC Canada is its Peer Advisory Groups. These groups are a unique assembly of leaders from diverse, non-competing industries who come together to share experiences, challenge each other’s thinking, and provide invaluable support.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Some health care businesses use duplicate dyad management structures—one to oversee the clinical enterprise and another to oversee the business and operations that support the clinical enterprise. The dyad model can help break down silos, improve the way clinical and operations leaders work together, and coordinate care.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

Today, Brad is the CEO of EHOME Counseling Group, a nationwide virtual mental health counseling business. He is a strategic and operational leader, having led strategic planning, finance and business development teams for these companies, as well as leading large operating units of over $500 million and $1 billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

To perform at the highest levels, remote teams have to find new and better ways to operate. First, consider that there are three kinds of distance in remote collaboration: physical (place and time), operational (team size, bandwidth and skill levels) and affinity (values, trust, and interdependency).

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Which leads to our second point — although what you learn will be on a smaller scale than what the Fortune 500 would do (you’ll use less data, involve fewer people, and have much less at stake), you will start developing the ability to see what really matters (and what doesn’t) to the CEO of a company — profits, operations, etc.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There are plenty of different distinctions that one can draw, of course, and any attempt to group data scientists into different buckets is by necessity an oversimplification. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors. To address this: Use control groups: Compare performance between trained and untrained employees or teams. Profit margins: Assess improvements in profit margins resulting from enhanced employee performance.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

OCTOBER 5, 2021

CIMA is a group of Cellulose Insulation Manufacturers that has been around for 30 years. They represent the cellulose manufacturing industry, as well as the owner/operators and entrepreneurs who are building the products*.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Risks related to advanced technology use Even though manufacturers implement the latest technologies to increase operational efficiency, these technologies may pose additional risks. In addition, problems with equipment may cause additional risks related to workers’ safety and product quality.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

There are very good reasons for why high achieving women are burning out at a faster rate than any other demographic group. Yet we are not there because we are still operating in corporate cultures that are aligned towards how man think and operate vs. how women are wired. Or walk out on dream jobs at Walt Disney World like me.

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Kraft Kennedy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Why Law Firms Are Embracing Application Rationalization An underrated operational advantage, Application Rationalization addresses an inefficiency common across law firms. If your firm’s operational maturity goals include any of the below, keep reading. All About The Apps!

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

As mid-level managers of separate companies (groups of 140 to 210 people) within the same Army Brigade over the past two years, we were evaluated against each other. Dan implemented these ideas in his group and, inspired by the openness of his competitor, described his plan to incorporate courtesy reviews by the inspection team.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This causes you to operate out of the primal, least creative part of your brain. This type of thinking is one in which your brain operates in a looser manner, searching to make connections between different parts of your brain versus operating in the established neuropaths followed in the “focused-thinking” state.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Additionally, seamless integration with essential business tools boosts connectivity and streamlines operations, making it an indispensable asset for PMOs seeking a versatile and intuitive project management solution. Seamless data flow between platforms ensures operational efficiency.

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The Source

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We’ve written before on this blog about the consulting industry’s historic challenges around diversity and inclusion; while firms are no longer the “old boys’ clubs” they once were, most still have a long way to go before they become truly reflective of the societies in which they operate.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Think of AI like a calculator for business operations. Process Optimization AI can identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your workflows, helping you streamline operations. The post Mastering AI: A Strategic Guide for Business Leaders in the Digital Age appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place. Then looking at then managers and employees and focus groups. Then when you're looking at focus groups.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Prior to this pilot, the operating model of the stores was focused on creating emotional and economic pressure to drive performance. Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This means that for any operation in the Epicflow system, your business data remains secure on your servers. Another example is Epica notifying a project or resource manager about overload in certain groups or specific resources. You can put a new project in a certain group when you add a new project to the system.

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