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Supplementing Your Pipeline with Consulting Agencies

Successful Independent Consulting

By “agency” I mean a company that matches independent consultants with client projects, like a talent agency. An agency is different than a consulting firm because agencies usually place one person at a time, and they assume consultants are bringing their own methodology and tools. How do they go to market?

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. There are three main types of business consultants.

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So, you’ve built a new capability, but no one uses it! What gives?

Kates Kesler

She had hired top talent, built assets, and delivered high quality demonstration projects. They do all the right things: create a strategy, announce a leader, build and buy the talent needed, research and implement best practices, purchase new technology, and roll-out training. But a year later they have little to show for it.

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How Sales Leaders Drive Growth

LSA Global

Far too many sales reps’ talents are wasted dealing with conflicting, duplicative, unnecessary, administrative, and non-revenue generating tasks that should be eliminated, simplified, automated, or handled by others. Improve Skills of Sales Reps You need a careful evaluation of the talent on your sales teams.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Specifically, how can we ensure that we are appropriately looking ahead, curating market opportunities, and defining holistic responses to address the specific needs of our customers? Doesn’t the Chief Marketing Officer look at opportunities out in the market?

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Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture?

LSA Global

Think of the groupthink that occurred at Kodak — successful for so many years until the market changed. If we had assessed their organizational culture at the time, our hunch is that the leaders and the overall corporate culture were not prescient or flexible enough to change with the market.

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5 Risks of Delayed Facility Startup Projects

PM Alliance

From paying extra for expedited shipping to missing out on favorable market conditions, any slip in an initiative’s timeline can have unwanted effects. Marketing efforts fall out of sync. The addition of a new employer can be big news for the local job market. Staffing takes a hit. Manufacturing workloads experience conflicts.