Fri.Jul 14, 2023

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Innovation Storytelling For Consultants: The “Chocolate & Peanut Butter” Of Delicious Client Engagements

Consulting Success

Ahh, the ’80’s. Walkmen. Cowboys with chocolate. Random women eating gobs of peanut butter from the jar while walking down the street. Good times. Reese’s gave us an unlikely combination of flavors that changed how we look at both chocolate and peanut butter. By mixing them together, they made something better. The same is true.

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Renewable Energy and its Impact on Consulting

Tom Spencer

National governments are currently in the process of crafting economic policy with a strong environmental focus. Government incentives for investment into renewable energy sources, such as subsidies and tax credits , are becoming an increasingly popular way for governments to meet national pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, businesses and individuals alike have an incentive to shift production and consumption decisions based on changing social norms and on the carrots

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Project Management: Leverage Data for Better Cost Control 

PM Alliance

Saving money—or at least making the available bucket of money go farther—has long been a priority for project teams. Organizations use numerous strategies to control costs. Sometimes it’s nothing more than opting for the cheapest materials or shrinking the project’s scope to keep expenditures down. But if you’re looking for more sophisticated and flexible ways to manage your project’s financial resources, consider how data can help make any approach more effective.

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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

In entrepreneurship, failure is common. Consider this sad statistic : out of 10 startups that are founded this year, only 3 will still exist three years from now. Of these, only one will reach maturity and make significant revenues. Many have accepted these numbers as an inevitable part of the entrepreneurial process. Others have developed theories to explain why businesses fail and what criteria distinguishes successful founders from unsuccessful ones.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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3 Ways to Reenergize Your Team When Morale Is Low

Harvard Business

Employees everywhere are suffering from chronic low engagement and productivity levels, while stress and burnout continue to rise. Add to this the pressures of economic uncertainty and a potential recession, the threat of artificial intelligence automating jobs and skills and disrupting entire industries, and the sense of languishing and loneliness that increasingly permeate the work experiences of many, and the overall picture is rather bleak.

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Build a Winning AI Strategy for Your Business

Harvard Business

Artificial intelligence is a kind of catalyst; it’s the next wave of truly transformative technology with potential we cannot yet fully envision or appreciate. Companies will start by using this new technology to do “old things” before discovering the new opportunities it creates. So, how should they go about this process? They should: start by experimenting, deploy for productivity, transform experiences, and then try to build new things.

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Raising the bar

Seth Godin Blog

That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the bar became well understood: If you can’t jump over the bar that the current leader cleared, you don’t win. But most of the innovations that change our culture don’t actually increase the simple linear measurements of the bar. They’re more likely to raise the average, to increase the performance of accepted mediocre output.

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How Software Companies Can Enter the U.S. Defense Market

Harvard Business

Pentagon procurement procedures have long complicated commercial software companies’ entrance into the defense market difficult, but the authors’ experience working with both tech startups and the defense industry leads them to believe that now is a good time for companies to enter the market. They recommend starting by using commercial success to prompt small, one-time defense contracts, partnering with existing defense channels, and building a dedicated sales team.