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Overcoming Business Challenges with Business Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement Streamlining operations and improving efficiency is essential for businesses to thrive. A report by Aberdeen Group found that companies working with consultants achieved a 28% improvement in operational efficiency. This results in a lack of growth.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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The 5 Growing Pains of Service-Based Businesses in 2023 (and how to overcome them)

Asamby Consulting

Work with contractors To get over that initial cash-flow issue, it can make sense to rely on contractors instead of employees. You can join a project meeting with each client once a month. Standardizing delivery to ensure operational efficiency In order to grow your service-based business, you need to balance two things.

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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Unrealistic Expectations – Part II – Gotcha!

Martinka Consulting

And this applies to any type of deal, not just the sale of a business, where terms influence the price. The seller got a higher price so she was more motivated to do a deal, the buyer has improved cash flow to grow the business and improve operations, and isn’t that what it’s all about. Now for the “gotcha.”

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities. What caused this slump?

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AAA – Not to the Rescue

Martinka Consulting

When it comes time to sell however, they want to demonstrate that the business has more cash flow than the tax returns (and financial statements) show. Adjustments , as in, “you can adjust some of our operations to make more profit.” A corporation can hold their annual meeting in Hawaii in January and write it off.