Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

In a recent project, we worked with an executive team to develop a range of ‘future options’ for their manufacturing business. Which areas represent the biggest opportunity to improve performance? The BIG 6 approach presupposes that you can identity and resolve a small number of key challenges facing the business.

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Culture Insurance Insurance Engineering 40

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. When a business provides access to an interesting segment of customers, why not target them with a more compelling offer yourself? Defensive Moats.

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Company Talent Accenture Transportation 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. How it will impact business, industry, and society. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.)

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 42

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And what can business learn from them? Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. ” One RSC Executive Director told us, “My biggest challenge when I arrived was joining a highly successful company — I didn’t want to mess up.”

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Study Recruiting Recruitment Engineering 43

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

This is because many fundamentally mismanage the growth gap, which is the difference between their growth goals and what their base businesses can deliver. We assigned projects to four categories of opportunity (plus another category for innovations that support the core business).

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How To Resources Operations Trends 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2015

Here they are again, taken from Steen Jakobsen Warns "Euro is Not a Good Idea and ECB About to Make Biggest Mistake in History" Jakobsen says success stories like the three QE Federal Reserve (Fed) cannot be extrapolated to the Eurozone. His reason? On average monetary easing seems to have a weak or negative effect on consumption.

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Real Estate Banking Comparison Trends 28

Martinka Consulting

JULY 27, 2016

Guest Column: I have been involved in buying and selling business for more than twenty years as an owner-operator, advisor and investor. Over the past ten years, I have worked with thousands of prospective business buyers through the various guides my company publishes. Choosing the Wrong Business. Overpaying For A Business.

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Sales Operations Methodologies Financial 40

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. Draghi Creates Bond Bubble All Drahghi really accomplished with LTRO is to make Europe the biggest bond bubble in the world. Free Up Liquidity? Well bubbles can always get bigger, until they pop.

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Balance Sheet Real Estate Banking Policies 75

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The Governing Council decided to start purchasing non-financial private sector assets. The Eurosystem will purchase a broad portfolio of simple and transparent asset-backed securities (ABSs) with underlying assets consisting of claims against the euro area non-financial private sector under an ABS purchase programme (ABSPP).

Banking 74

Banking Balance Sheet Government Comparison 74

CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 29, 2020

What I did have was a very large mortgage, two children to raise (with a third on the way), and a business that was struggling. I had borrowed enormously against the family home to provide capital to the business. . We made the excruciatingly painful decision to sell our home and move into a small rental home that was 75% smaller. .

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Cash Flow Resources Groups Video 128

Leadership Vision Consulting

JULY 22, 2014

First: See The Whole Board When Mark Hanson joined our firm , one of the biggest lessons he taught me was about seeing the whole board. Mark emphasized and re-emphasized how I needed to change my perspective on growing our business. Mark taught me to see the whole board by focusing more on 12-18 months of business growth.

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Leadership Meeting Small Business Strategy 35

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

There are three consequences of this arrangement that are of particular relevance to Brexit negotiators: free trade between EU member states (think “tariff free”); businesses in the member states being subject to EU regulations; and citizens of any member state being able to move to another member state to live or work there.

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Government Marketing Analysis Financial 28