Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I asked my partner Jen Hamilton - our community Chief Operating Officer to be my guest today and share all the deets on the what you'll need and how much it all costs so that you can plan in advance for both the startup and ongoing costs. You can see another how-to video about trying to decide which web domain and platform to use.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 7, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Let Mandi Ellefson of Hands-Off CEO share how you can run your business profitably without you! How To Build A “Hands-Off” Consulting Business With Mandi Ellefson: Podcast #259 is a post from: Consulting Success. Even better, we can actually lead without working (and being) neck-deep in the company. Sounds impossible?

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You can stop worrying about the competition because today, I will teach you how to conduct a market scan and find your niche. Today, I'll walk you through the seven steps of your market scan and how to mine for the intel around what makes you unique and how you can stand out – even if you're brand new and just starting.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

Here's some of the most common money fears and how to get over them. In the past you operated in a compensation model where you do work and then get paid. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As an organization development consultant, I played a key role in aligning the senior executive team around how service was delivered on the front lines, what needed to happen to establish Disney's Animal Kingdom as a must-see park, and how the creative and operational teams partnered together.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

How do Consulting Firms Work? Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. Your business just launched a new product and needs to market it. Market trends have changed, and you want to make sure the product will reach the correct target customer.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2024

They determined that, although data engineers and data scientists typically take on most responsibility from conception to production of AI development lifecycles, non-technical leaders can play a key role in ensuring the integration of responsible AI.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. For other organizations in general, I think it’s important to try and assess what the opportunity is, determine a strategy for moving forward, audit where you are and identify the gaps, and then design and execute on an operating model.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Now, all of a sudden their operations are getting very sophisticated. We have a really great product. I felt like they got a lot out of it.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 3, 2024

Starting a pet products business can be an exciting and rewarding venture, given the increasing number of pet owners and the growing market for pet care products. However, like any new business, launching a pet products company comes with its own set of challenges.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

Staff jobs only offer intangible and peripheral value, as I briefly discussed in Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1. In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. Those are functional skills. Industry expertise.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2024

To create value, mergers need top-line gains: More sales to more customers, expansion into new territories or market adjacencies, new products and services to sell to existing customers.

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Epicflow

JUNE 21, 2023

Among other things, this can be achieved by improving a company’s operational efficiency. How is it possible to increase operational efficiency in project-based organizations? What Is Operational Efficiency and Why Improve It? Improving operational efficiency means delivering more output with the same or less input.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 6, 2018

A lot of times, what we see for new product companies are you’ve got a couple of founders where one knows the product well because that started the idea, and then one knows how to market and sell the product. Once you have those two things together, the next piece is the ecommerce operations piece.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

and how the work is accomplished, the flow by which products and services are created and delivered (e.g., People Strategy : What competencies are required; how individuals are recruited, selected, trained, recognized, compensated and rewarded; and how performance is measured, tracked and monitored.

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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. In contrast, strategy consulting allows an individual to work across industries.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. Sub-par materials will inevitably affect the quality of the final product making it dangerous for the end users. .

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 16, 2024

Starting a skincare product line can be a highly rewarding venture, especially for dermatologists who have a deep understanding of skin health and patient needs. Leveraging your expertise as a dermatologist, you can create high-quality, scientifically-backed products that address specific skin concerns.

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 5, 2022

This article is the third of a series of posts on how to build a company "operating system", the infrastructure that functions as a backbone of your most common tasks and daily activities. In particular in this article we focus on how to track company time on Airtable in order to be able to run analysis and optimization activities.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, let's consider how to see management's adaptable and resilient actions. Maybe experiment with changing their current products and services. Possibly, create new products and services to disrupt their current market. Instead of detailed plans, how can management make small plans and learn from them?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 12, 2014

An Introduction to Operations Management. Taught by University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Professor Christian Terwiesch, this course will teach you how to analyze and improve business processes, be it in services or in manufacturing. that will enable you to sharpen your business understanding for consulting.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. But figuring out how executives think can be challenging for consultants and coaches if we haven't been executives before.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Reducing changeover time of machines—the time it takes to switch from the last “good” part of product A to the next “good” part of product B—is one of the most powerful tools in lean manufacturing. The concept applies to any other process in which you need to make a change from one “product” to another. in history.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 5, 2021

Not only do you have to oversee the product/service and operations, you also have to plan the strategic direction of the business. Whether you're running the show yourself or leading a team of 25, small business ownership is difficult.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Improving Business Performance: Essential Steps Business performance indicates how effectively a company achieves its objectives. It involves financial and non-financial indicators, e.g., a company’s productivity, profitability, customer satisfaction, and others. So, how can companies improve their business performance?

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Identifying the root causes of a problem that prevent something from operating as it should. The 5-Why inquiry that identified the lack of a strainer, and kept production on target, is emblematic of this type of problem solving. Innovation that seeks to fundamentally change how something operates. Type 4: Open-ended.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2023

They can impact team performance, collaboration, and productivity, create operational friction among teams, and cause employees to feel disengaged, distrustful, and unmotivated. Unaddressed and unresolved interpersonal tensions and toxic behavior can lead to organizational failure.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 2, 2024

Given our current staffing, we can afford to fund these specific projects for some amount of time before those projects release their products and services. Depending on how much innovation we require, we want to replan the portfolio after some releasing so we can learn. See Consider Product Options with Minimum Outcomes.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

As author Caroline Turner states in her book Difference Works: Improving Retention, Productivity and Profitability Through inclusion , “ I lacked the passion to keep it up.” And as agriculture developed enough to create surplus product, the marketplace was born. We have come a long way, baby for sure.

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Rick Conlow

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Sometimes that change means operating on yourself! Begin operating on your own situation by simply counting the how many times the letter f appears. To manage yourself to increase your effectiveness you must be willing to change some habits to increase productivity. In the process, he changed accepted medical practice.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 6, 2024

See here the most common small business problems and how to overcome them. Irregular income, late payments from clients, or unexpected expenses can disrupt operations and hinder growth. Use this information to refine your products or services and highlight your unique selling points.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. To meet the moment, this article argues that organizations may need to change the way they operate to innovate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. Its success offers other legacy companies lessons in how to navigate this process.

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