David A Fields

AUGUST 8, 2023

More than one someone, in fact—multiple someones conspiring to suppress growth, pillage productivity and wipe out your hidden chocolate stash. You’re the leader of your consulting firm and you may also be the biggest obstacle to its … Continued The post 3 People Reducing Productivity at Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product. From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For us, ChatGPT isn't just another tech gimmick; it's a virtual assistant that can elevate our creativity, enhance productivity, and revolutionize our communications. Embrace ChatGPT as your personal assistant, and watch your productivity soar. As self-employed professionals, our time is especially valuable.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Product management can be a great stepping stone for ambitious early career professionals, and it’s not just for those with an engineering background. Despite recent tech layoffs and a precarious job market, product management remains a vibrant and promising field for early career professionals.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 29, 2024

Eisha Armstrong, co-founder and executive chairman of Vecteris, dives deep into how to productize your services for growth. Learn how embracing a product mindset and specializing in a niche can boost your profits.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

How senior leaders can save their teams — and themselves — from the unhealthy compulsion to be productive at all times.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2024

Researchers who analyzed consumer feedback from Etsy discovered that what consumers value most about upcycled products is not their sustainability but their creativity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Five steps to help you enhance the discovery process and deliver products that meet both customer needs and business goals.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2024

Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not only broadened access to funding to companies that might struggle in the capital markets but have also transformed the way companies connect with consumers during product development, replacing focus groups with real customers who have a stake in the final product.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2024

Product management has become an aspirational career. A group of popular social media influencers regularly offers advice on what it takes to attain a job and succeed in this field. But their content tends to glamorize the profession, gloss over the day-to-day-realities, and dispense wisdom that isn’t always on point.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 4, 2024

Organizations face a delicate ethical balancing act of maximizing productivity while ensuring the well-being of their employees. It involves considerations related to the ethics of corporate training and the complexities of achieving a balance between productivity and the well-being of employees. Contact us today!

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Countries around the world are enacting legislation, known as extended producer responsibility regulations, to make companies more accountable for the end-of-life phase of their products. While companies may fear that these take-back programs would lead to increased costs that drive away consumers, new research suggests differently.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 18, 2020

Imagine how fun this would be at your consulting firm: you and your colleagues launch every day with a towering pile of valuable gifts that will make the hours more productive and effective. You can have that. In fact, you, personally, can create that scenario. Well, one of you can. The Three Yous … Continued.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Jordan Jamswiper, COO of the “My Toast” empire of breakfast products, revealed to you one of the company’s most vexing issues. Then Jordan asked for an overview of how your consulting firm could solve the challenge. Sounds sweet as syrup so far.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, traditional sales and marketing-driven approaches are increasingly giving way to a new paradigm: Product Led Growth (PLG). Product Led Growth is a business methodology in which the product itself serves as the primary driver of customer acquisition. What is PLG?

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David A Fields

MARCH 2, 2021

Usage of certain consumer products such as toothpaste and toilet paper are fairly constant—you’re unlikely to persuade consumers … Continued. There’s a rich, hidden vein of project opportunities for your consulting firm—projects that your consulting firm may not have been in the running to receive.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Industrial production declined 0.3 percent in September. Negative revisions lopped off another 0.5 percent.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Even if you have the best product available, it doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have an equivalent marketing strategy in place. The CEO of GrowthHit, Jim Huffman, takes this time to share his expertise and experience when it comes to growth marketing. Learn how you can look at marketing from the mindset perspective and.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Many leaders want to be allies for underrepresented groups, but fear their attempts will be awkward or offensive. New research suggests these fears are often unfounded, with acts of allyship generally being appreciated more than anticipated.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As sustainability concerns grow and customer loyalty becomes increasingly vital, many executives are asking: How do we break free from planned obsolescence and design products that grow? The answer lies in understanding how innovative companies are already making this transition.

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David A Fields

MARCH 10, 2020

Have you ever finished a day or a week and thought to yourself, “Holy cow, I can’t believe how insanely productive that time was”? If you’re willing to join, simply post, “Yes.” In the comments section below the article. You busted … Continued. The post The Great, One-Day Consulting Experiment appeared first on David A.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Michael Zipursky talks about strategic hiring in this episode with Adam Oliver, Founder and CEO of Crafted, a product development consultancy employing over 26 people. Putting the right people in the right seats is crucial to any business, but for a consulting practice, it is a matter of life or death. Michael and Adam discuss.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you had a problem with a product 20 years ago, what would you do? But now, what do people do when they have a problem with a product? You’d call customer support. They go online. The internet has changed the way businesses interact with their customers. It’s provided a way for consumers to have.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Industrial production is below the January 2008 level. Manufacturing is even more abysmal.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Look for the candidates whose skills and energy encourage everyone around them to perform better.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. At a $500M footwear company I once worked with, the founder and CEO—long removed from his role product development—decided that he didn’t like a particular style his product team had designed, developed, and purchased.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2024

Wharton professor David Robertson discusses a “third way” to innovate besides disruptive and sustaining innovations.

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Consulting Success

MARCH 16, 2020

Whether we sell products, services, or ourselves, it is imperative to be able to grasp the best approach to selling to your ideal clients. No matter which career, business, or industry we are in, we become a salesperson. In this episode, host Michael Zipursky guests mentor and sales growth advisor, Ari Galper. Ari is experienced.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

When we want to sell something, we have to consider not just selling the product, but to also make ourselves or our company sellable. We have to make an impact to our potential customers if we want to fully sell our whole package, especially if we are to market ourselves as consultants.

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