Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Thinking about starting your own business and want to know exactly what it'll cost to make that happen? 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.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. Read in this blog post what the best time is to bring this position in. While the CEO defines the strategic direction and makes the big decisions, the COOs responsibility is to execute these decisions.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

According to Gitnux blog 56% of companies actively use remote workers. According to Gitnux blog 56% of companies actively use remote workers. The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. The COVID-19 pandemic initiated this trend. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive.

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While nurturing your own network is usually the best way to find work ( see tips in my article ), many consultants also supplement their business development efforts by affiliating with agencies and, increasingly, online platforms or marketplaces. Some agencies provide access to group health insurance plans, a plus in the U.S.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Business consulting services are those services which help organizations to overcome problems in the fields of management, planning, and execution. Business consultants are experts who are usually hired by a company or organization for business success.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

The Good News: Most Companies Think People Development Matters If you follow the money, most companies think that investing in the development of their people matters. Corporations spent over $160b on employee development. Corporations spent over $160b on employee development. There is a better way. Last year, U.S.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. What are the different types of consultants?

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Now, let’s examine why it’s important to develop a business case document. . Now, let’s examine why it’s important to develop a business case document. . Whatever great idea is behind a project, it won’t be implemented without stakeholders’ buy-in and investment. This is when a business case document is required.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2023

To work, strategies require high levels of strategic clarity , believability, and implementability from the C-suite to the frontline. Because your strategy must go through your culture to be effectively implemented, the level of organizational health, accountability, and strategic alignment has an outsized impact on success.

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The Management Centre

JULY 31, 2023

However, training isn’t cheap – it takes your team member away from their job, it often costs money and expenses, and it can therefore be incredibly frustrating if you don’t see a return on this investment. It is purposeful, and connects to your wider strategic aims. At best, your team member reports having a great time but that’s it.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

OPM3 was developed by the experts of the Project Management Institute, so it’s considered as a standard for achieving organizational PM maturity. If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What are project management maturity models?

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Epicflow

AUGUST 19, 2022

Project integration management consists of a series of activities that correspond to the main phases of a project lifecycle (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/control, and closure). Develop a project charter. Once this document is created and approved, a project manager can start work on project planning and implementation.

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LSA Global

MARCH 18, 2022

Savvy sales managers and leaders invest heavily in growing current strategic accounts. 3 Sales Context Tips to Increase Revenue from Existing Customers Outperforming B2B sales organizations ensure that their sales strategy and sales culture are defined and aligned to grow existing strategic accounts.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Are You and Your Leadership Team Aware of the Top Cognitive Biases that Affect Strategic Planning? Cognitive Bias and Strategy Planning. There is arguably no more important responsibility of business leaders than to develop a clear, believable, and implementable strategy for their enterprise that will lead to success.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These seemingly minor uncertainties can cumulatively impact performance and disrupt detailed planning. “When Dr. Goldratt came to me and asked, ‘Eli, how long will it take you to develop a new feature’, I hesitated. Albert Ponsteen is a seasoned TOC expert, mentored by Eli Schragenheim.

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Buzzsprout

JANUARY 3, 2024

Feel free to take the course at your own pace and check out the Buzzsprout blog for free templates and resources! Finding answers to your podcasting questions can be frustrating and time-consuming, but a good podcast course consolidates all the necessary information into one convenient place.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Top Team Leader Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs We know from our action learning leadership development programs that all leaders make mistakes. Healthy growth depends upon an overall strategic plan that keeps a business, and the leaders, on a big picture track. We also know that what matters is how they handle them.

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LSA Global

JULY 3, 2020

As you work to build a clear corporate strategy for success , make sure you do not get carried away with your potentially biased and untested ideas and avoid the need to increase strategic buy-in. The Negative Consequences of Not Testing Strategic Assumptions. Strategy Creation Stage. Most executives feel tremendous pressure to act.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. To Subscribe to a Blog. This post describes two very different approaches to consulting: a systematic, planned approach versus an organic approach. Systematic and Planned Approach.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For many companies, labor cost is by far the biggest cost position. Retention Tool Considering the direct and indirect cost of hiring and the labor shortage, keeping the team you have is critical. But in today's world with every increasing transparency and shortening tenures, how do you get compensation right?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 19, 2018

If You Want Strategic Growth, Your Leadership Team Must Think Bigger. If you want strategic growth, you must start with strategic clarity. Our organizational alignment research found strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low growth companies. Three Ways to Think Bigger for Strategic Growth.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. To Subscribe to a Blog. Translate This. Guest Writer Submissions. Gaining Clarity in What You Care About Most Deeply in Your OD Work By Carter McNamara on December 2, 2012.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

Through cost reductions, I was released from the company. So, you want to start a consulting business? Or interested in taking your consulting business the next level? Most high-achieving professionals at some point in their career dream of ditching the pressure of the 70-hour workweeks and start a consulting business. Changes to current job.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants Engagement Cost: $150K. started with only two employees and developed several revolutionary human resource concepts. Some of these include establishing the first global employee stock ownership plan, developing the first fully integrated health savings account and offering innovative severance solutions.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A product company like Apple invests heavily in research &development (R&D) to maintain its competitive advantage. It's more that I made a conscious and deliberate (read: strategic) choice to be hyper-competitive in my career of choice. Yup, R&D = Learning New Skills. He said, "Vic, it's annoying competing against you. (We

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. To Subscribe to a Blog. For example, I recently had 3 phone calls with a potential client who was considering me to teach their employees how to facilitate strategic planning.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

If you get stuck on this data, it can lead to incorrect patterns of thinking that don’t address the strategic issues. MECE Segmentation and Planning. What is MECE (Mutually Exclusive Collectively Exhaustive)? MECE is a systematic problem-solving framework that helps to solve complex problems. The Shortcomings of Non-MECE Segmentation.

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The Management Centre

JULY 5, 2023

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. I want to be focusing on more strategic areas of work, developing our approach and pushing us forward. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

holders – one studied integral programming algorithms and the other researched the use of higher math in meal planning in the military – it’s safe to say that this is a company founded on intelligence, excellence, and genius insight. ZS Associates Engagement Cost: $400K. ZS ASSOCIATES KEY STATS. Europe: 6 locations.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2020

L&D’s Role Today Learning and Development departments have become increasingly important to the success of their organizations. Professional development for employees is no longer seen as a “nice-to-have” employee benefit. Successful organizations have learned how to design the right L&D strategy.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 29, 2022

We talked about the need for leaders to have emotional intelligence, show humanity, engage in continuous learning, be a role model, be strategic and of course, to focus on people. Yvette: Thanks again Cassie for taking the time to talk to me about all things leadership. We last had a chat about leadership topics in 2019. A tall order!

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 7, 2016

Rick Kash developed an inverted, but extraordinarily effective, ideology of “demand and supply” and applied it to all aspects of The Cambridge Group. Rick Kash developed an inverted, but extraordinarily effective, ideology of “demand and supply” and applied it to all aspects of The Cambridge Group. THE CAMBRIDGE GROUP KEY STATS.

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LSA Global

APRIL 16, 2021

Growing Revenue is a Bit Like Training for a Marathon Defining strategies to grow revenue is a lot like preparing for a grueling race; there are multiple training regimens, but no single training plan works well for everyone. When it comes to growing the top line, the lack of strategic clarity is a performance killer.

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Kates Kesler

MAY 13, 2016

It is important to decide at what level the primary strategic and tactical P&L decisions in the business should get made. In a global product or brand business the anchor layer is the strategic business unit (SBU), the layer that is primarily accountable for developing growth strategies and the plans to execute them.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 14, 2012

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home. To Subscribe to a Blog. History of Organization Development (Part 4 of 6) — Frederick Taylor, the First Modern ‘Change’ Consultant By Carter McNamara on May 14, 2012. Translate This.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 12, 2023

While post-workshop check-ins and post mortems are helpful structures, effective learning reflection is a mindset and should be part of your learning culture and career development routine. And the 20% that do change behavior and improve performance were already likely to do so without much help. The difference maker?

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies. We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company.

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