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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. These firms have international presence, wide knowledge bases, and reputations of success across many industries. How do Consulting Firms Work? Imagine you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 business in the technology industry.

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What Instructional Design Theories Work Best With Online Training?

Clarity Consultants

Here are 3 instructional design models that have proven to operate well in the modern age of online training courses. It provides deep resources and easy access to corporate training that companies have quickly found great value in. But not every type of lesson works well in a digital format. 1) The ADDIE Model.

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Reasons for Today's Stress Pandemic (and Why High-Achieving Women Suffer the Most)

Consulting Matters

The physical strength of men was no longer needed to accomplish knowledge based work and so the bonafide job qualifications were leveled. 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.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Start a knowledge base. It’s time to dedicate a full-time person to building your knowledge base and providing customer education support. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time. At this stage, you too will spend lots of time talking about operations.

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Could Your Business Use an Advisory Board?

IMC USA

Do you need a fresh perspective to help expand your operations? Advisory boards focus on "big picture” issues--such as compensation, market strategy, and succession planning--rather than day-to-day operational difficulties. As usual, the answer seems to lie in your company’s unique needs. Use the Pluses.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business

All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. But companies and government agencies are starting to find plenty of places where knowledge-based tools can make a huge difference. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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