Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 13, 2023

Consultants bring analytical tools and methodologies that expedite problem-solving and minimize disruptions. From expertise and improved decision-making to cost-efficiency, strategic planning, and innovation, the value consultants bring to organizations is well-documented by data and insights.

Consulting 52

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work.

Consulting 202

Consulting Strategy Strategy Strategy& 202

Business Consulting Agency

JULY 24, 2023

Return on Investment (ROI) The ROI of working with business consultants is well-documented. Consultants often transfer knowledge and methodologies that enable employees to carry forward improved practices long after the consultancy engagement ends.

ROI 52

ROI Efficiency Study Deloitte 52

Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Some companies can be tempted to apply Agile methodology because of its flexibility; but without proper planning, it won’t become a silver bullet ensuring the successful completion of an R&D project. Applying a phase-gate process can help you address this issue.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

Document, assess, and streamline your pricing processes and pricing artifacts as you go along. Agencies may use common cookie-cutter pricing templates and common documentation requirements, especially when issuing a large volume of task order requests from the same IDIQ vehicle. What do you do then? Why reinvent the wheel?

Government 52

Government Strategy Strategy Strategy& 52

PM Alliance

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Some information and updates might be better placed on the project’s intranet site or kept available for access within the overall project documentation repository. Not everything needs to be pushed out as a component in your communication plan.

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Conference Education Video Tools 91

Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 28, 2017

They’re counting on you to move the ball down the field, whether through a detailed work plan that’s reviewed regularly, or by cranking out “deliverables”—tools and documents—that will help the client make progress toward the desired result. After that, though, the methodologies diverge.

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PM Alliance

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That’s right, the instructions you provide to stakeholders on contacting your team members, where documentation and status updates can be accessed for review, and everything else is immediately forgotten once an initiative is complete.

Energy 91

Energy Education Financial Training 91

PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Be prepared to document your findings and recommendations Post-visit reports are often detailed , multi-layered, and complex. While the team is sure to have additional post-assessment discussions and inquiries, you don’t want to abbreviate the onsite evaluation and lose the value of a hands-on visit simply because the schedule was too tight.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 15, 2016

Most planning processes are too complex, and only document decisions already made. The final “plan document” should represent a set of decisions. EXECUTIVES LOVE TO TALK ABOUT PLANNING… most complain their processes don’t work very well. Here are some my observations about the role of Leaders in Planning: .

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PM Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

Yes, people appreciate the ability to review project documents from wherever they are, or to hold simultaneous discussions in Slack and other collaboration platforms. The abundance of technology tools project teams and their stakeholders use today is both a positive and occasionally a negative.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

In addition, if you are in the IT field, reading application documentation is a great way to understand concepts, study code, and even become aware of user problems and how developers addressed them. Develop your own Product/Program Methodology. Reading might include books, industry magazines, and online resources. WSO Podcast.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Operations Manager's is usually not as wide or as deep, focusing on a more specific task, either on methodological or functional level. A potential candidate must have methodological experience, e.g. has set up a process documentation for other companies before.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 13, 2023

Providing comprehensive specification documents during the order process can help avoid unwelcome surprises. Unless you’re aware of these updates, the resources intended to support your project could arrive out of spec or require additional work to validate or install.

Management 71

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 5, 2020

I really liked, for especially the larger projects, to do it in PowerPoint, because it allows me to tell the story in a more storytelling type of way, as well as my proposal becomes sort of like that internal document that everybody uses to get on the same page around the project. Secret Sauce around methodology (4:47): Okay.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 29, 2022

There are so many workflows powering your organization’s operations that identifying and documenting all of them can be exhausting. If you’re having trouble completing that step, consider these 3 tips to help you on your way. Review existing business processes and earmark those you need to revise.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It's going beyond what is documented on the org chart and approaching your consultant similarly to a doctor's approach to a patient. My approach to landing clients is all about using your relationship skills to pivot a client from whatever methodology they ask you for to a conversation about business goals.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

Data 28

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. The signatories posted their document online and invited others to add their names as supporters.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Regardless of what a company might message about data privacy in other ways, what must be put into practice is formally documented in the privacy policy. To study how a firm implements practices that provide transparency and control, we needed to look at the documented ways in which companies explain their approach to customer data privacy.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 7, 2022

Look for opportunities to tap into features such as digital whiteboards, automated transcription, and real-time document collaboration to drive more engagement and provide maximum value for participants’ time.

Management 52

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While there were some clever ways to forecast technology adoption, none of the data or methodologies were 100% accurate or reliable. ( In the case of the supposed Motorola engagement, which I believe took place in the 1970s, there was so little data available that there was not much to analyze.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 30, 2023

1: Formalize and document your project management workflows Is your team one of the many that still hasn’t documented its processes in a fixed format? Without documentation to guide team members, your hard-won gains could be lost as people start to cut corners and fall back on old habits. 2: Standardize your technology tools.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. One area so far relatively untouched is change management. That’s not because there isn’t a problem to solve. It’s time for that to change.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” In-group bias is a well-known phenomenon that is widely documented in the psychological literature. The basic idea of our methodology was to compare the citation counts of articles published by in-group members with those published by out-group members. We term this phenomenon “academic in-group bias.”

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. I thought I was having good ideas that are interesting and well-documented the world will come to you and that’s so far from the case. It’s a very crowded market out there. That was my big problem.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Therefore, Dr. Niazi designed his program to focus on using outcomes to improve the quality and productivity of clinical care conversations and reduce the time needed for documentation — all of which matter greatly to clinicians.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Editors’ note: Every ranking or index is just one way to analyze and compare companies or places, based on a specific methodology and data set. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.

Strategy 28

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Epicflow

AUGUST 3, 2022

The concept of a project management office was defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge [2] : it’s a department that establishes standards for processes related to managing projects and approves corresponding methodologies, techniques, and tools. Establishing project management methodology, standards, and best practices.

Management 98

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

Getting everyone to agree on what a project should accomplish—and what’s best left for a future effort—can be a real challenge.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. Step 4: Document assumptions. Step 5: Plan to key checkpoints. Now it’s time to lay out a plan.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

In a 2017 review of meditation studies from the past two decades, author and psychologist David Creswell, who directs the Health and Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, examined the methodological limitations of recent mindfulness studies. Or reminding ourselves that laughter is healing ?

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Chad Barr

APRIL 19, 2008

They are the best of the best in terms of methodology, integrity, client satisfaction, and contributions to the profession. I just returned for another absolutely outstanding event – The Million Dollar Consulting College Graduate School held at the gorgeous Ritz Carlton in Naples Florida. who conducts this college.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 8, 2022

The final weeks of an ERP implementation can introduce a lot of stress for project teams and stakeholders.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. For instance, (the reinvented) Kodak has created KODAKOne , which will feature a digital ledger documenting who owns the rights to individual images, allowing photographers to assert control over their work. Ending Marketing Fraud and Spam.

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