Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2021

As you can imagine, interacting with many people both inside and outside my team is a must, and this requires a great deal of communication. While communication can take many shapes, I’ve noticed that what really differentiates good from great communication is a seemingly trivial thing that we all do every day – writing. Conflict (C).

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2020, brands discovered how empathy can drive profitability and win lifetime loyalty, even during trying times. Are we keeping our CX vows to customers and employees? Here’s a refresher of 6 transformation roadmap steps to help deliver exceptional customer experiences and set your brand apart in the marketplace.

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this video tutorial, I'll show you how to get into writing flow so that you can finally launch your business, have a website that reflects the depth of what you bring the table and make money doing what what you love. Like how we synergize to optimize our opportunities and all that kind of stuff. Transcript.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

.” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. Insight Center.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. You won’t want to miss the insights and experiences that he shares in this episode of The Consulting Success Podcast.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Then you're going to love this tutorial video because it will reveal to what the true purpose is for the consultant's role and how to fulfill your potential in this role. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. I don't know how to break up the content.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Then you're going to love this tutorial video because it will reveal to what the true purpose is for the consultant's role and how to fulfill your potential in this role. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. I don't know how to break up the content.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

How do we promote consistency, while recognizing local differences? How do we simplify the organization and empower our teams on the ground, while building global platforms and brands? It is a small, but powerful set of drivers that should be centralized. What decision rights should each role have?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

How can senior leaders help HR develop a culture in which people think analytically? First, you need to understand the different levels of comfort with analytics in HR, and then you need to decide your approach to hiring and building expertise at each of the different levels. Insight Center. Sponsored by Splunk.

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our team is made up of highly-skilled, senior-level consultants from a wide range of backgrounds—educators at top universities, serial entrepreneurs, former C-suite executives, and seasoned process consulting experts. It’s learning and practice that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with our whole hearts.”.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

But how does a brand get to the point where that thinking is not only embraced, but also put into action across the company? “Digital is one of our core strategic priorities. “With the right approach to data and technology, you can continuously monitor the pulse of the consumer and how they respond,” Godsey says.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. The company received much acclaim for its transformation in the press (including some from us).

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Zoltners and Prabhakant Sinha (the Z and the S), the firm has built a reputation for taking things apart, seeing how they work, and putting them back together in much better condition than before. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. Well, needless to say, a company where both founders are Ph.D.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Increasingly, we can expect our personal devices to diagnose, monitor, and manage our mental wellness. “The increasing amounts of time that we spend on these devices, often using them for both leisure and work, means that many of our emotional experiences are channeled through these digital media,” observes Dr. .

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Our results are weighted to reflect the relative economic importance of firms of different sizes.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. The corollary, of course, is “we don’t know how to do that.” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the automobile. In so doing, it will transform much more than that. Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

We just love bringing you good reads, and today our spotlight turns to top consulting firms in one of our favorite cities in the U.S. McKinsey has legacy – the first mover in the DC area – and power in its camp. Many of their leaders share the stage on TED and engage in transformative thinking.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Our findings, and the ways we came to them, can be useful to other sales organizations looking to make internal changes of this type or optimize how their salespeople relate to customers. We needed to get answers to some of our biggest questions, including: Are we spending enough time with our most important customers?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

And while the self-help industry and leadership professions have made a fortune on our obsession with getting better, failure rates remain alarmingly high. How to Master a New Skill. How to Make Learning More Automatic. That’s because when attempting to learn new things our egos become naturally self-protective.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

AI is a transformative series of tools that can accelerate productivity, drive insight, and open up unexplored revenue streams. The reality is that AI is complex, high-risk, expensive, and often requires significant business transformation. Simple tasks can be daunting to those without the right experience.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Learning needs to be built into how power really works within organizations, organized around peer power, functional power, and hierarchical power. They create social norms, they dictate the unspoken standards, they define whom to collaborate with and whom to avoid, and they decide how much risk to take.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

There is a common misconception that technology alone can produce magical results. There is a common misconception that technology alone can produce magical results. But the reality is the results depend on how people use it, particularly if they can use it to amplify longstanding skills and expertise.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most team leaders try to build cohesion on their teams. Through team-building exercises and the careful establishment of norms and processes, leaders aim to create a culture of trust, psychological safety, and good feeling. Each team member responded to over 110 items that focused on their team’s capability and performance.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2017

As we’ve studied our own progress at BCG, we have found that gender disparities in our senior cohorts are not completely explained by traditional workplace concerns, such as work-life balance, maternity leave , unequal pay , and differential ambitions. We gave tactical suggestions for how managers could do this (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

In the opinion of Dr. Lu-Myers, he was a capable man who had passed his physical and occupational therapy evaluations with flying colors. How these lenses are brought together to inform decision making can have profound implications for patients. Insight Center. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Three years ago, our venture capital firm began studying startups in artificial intelligence. Over the past year, machine intelligence has exploded, with $5 billion in venture investment, a few big acquisitions, and hundreds of thousands of people reading our earlier research. These tools can aid with monitoring and predicting (e.g.,

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freshminds

MAY 11, 2016

As we continue to upload, type, share and work on digital spaces, a digital trail is laid of our movements. We have looked at how big data analytics are important tools for consultants [1] in order to predict customer behaviour and improve supply chain management. But can big data also be used within companies themselves?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As our functional needs have changed, we’ve had to adjust the kinds of jobs and job descriptions of people throughout our marketing organization. We’re looking for people who are passionate about their channel and understand how it intersects with others. Digital Marketing. Content Marketing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. How could I refuse?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. While a desperate need for change and organizational performance improvement may be obvious to the top team, staff can view that premise as fundamentally flawed. Insight Center. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. We wish we could have known more of the story behind how you came to articulate your personal mission, however. What we didn’t expect was the diversity of responses!

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

How should companies prepare, strategically, to thrive in this world? Others have described how intelligent machines will actually create jobs — including entirely new categories of jobs. Insight Center. Most companies are already moving rapidly to acquire new capabilities. How should we be organized?

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

In an era of transformative cognitive technologies like AI and machine learning, it’s become obvious that people, practices, and systems must become nimbler too. Insight Center. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But their priorities can conflict with other parts of the business.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Seemingly mundane accounting systems and customer databases now yield the raw materials that can be transformed into lucrative new services. Data can be the “missing link” for a company that has never had access to the side of your customers that only you can see. Data is, of course, a prime example.

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QEmploy

JULY 16, 2019

How to start? And what can you get out of it? How to be successful? How to be successful? This is not just in one field, but can be in many different ones. Since the term “consulting” is so broad it also implies that you can work with it in different ways. What are the steps? What is consulting? Job Trends.

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Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

The office is a reflection of the beautiful historic city itself, with 250+ high-powered employees creating history everyday for their top class clients (this is the main reason we were tempted to place Bain first – at only 250 staff, it’s an itty bitty office). EY Boston offers a plethora of services that clients can choose from.

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