Fri.Jul 28, 2023

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How Consultants Can Be the AI Trusted Advisor

Consulting Success

As consultants and advisors, we get paid to tell the future. We’re paid to explain it, help clients to understand it, and to guide them to a better version of that future. AI is the declared future of all businesses. If we are going to be relevant to our clients, we must be one step.

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Is your project a zombie, troll or unicorn? Maybe it’s just confused and needs a rationale

The Management Centre

In this blog, Director, Laura Slater looks at common problems with projects, and gives an overview of =mc ’s approach to Project Rationale. =mc’s Systems Model outlines 3 elements in getting your project rationale right. They are: Driver : what triggered this project? Why was it initiated? Was this in response to a need (various departments need to find information on our service users), opportunity (a new technology has become available which may support our beneficiaries) up which or problem (

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AI-Powered Clean Tech: Transforming Business Operations

Tom Spencer

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful tool in transforming various industries, including renewable energy. By harnessing the potential of AI, companies can optimize the integration and management of clean technologies , leading to increased efficiency, cost savings, and environmental sustainability. Consulting firms play a crucial role in guiding businesses through the integration of AI-powered renewables into their operations.

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Writing Secret 10: A Small Rant About Research on Social Networks

Johanna Rothman

It must be the season for “research” on social networks. Just this past week, I received several requests to share my stories with researchers—as if my experience was research. Some of these researchers are graduate students. Others are consultants. All of them share these goals: They want to write a substantial document, incorporating their research.

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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 Keep Your Audience Focused During a Presentation

Harvard Business

Grabbing and keeping your audience’s focus is critical to communication success. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly, sustaining it. In this piece, the author outlines three techniques — physical, mental, and linguistic — to engage your audience.

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Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic

Harvard Business

Toxicity can be an unfortunate reality of some work environments. Toxic cultures share five attributes: they’re disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive. Undeniably negative as these attributes are, there is no absolute, uniformly accepted scale against which we can measure any of them. Making matters more complicated, a hybrid environment by definition means that employees are experiencing their work in very different contexts — some face-to-face, others remote — and those

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Good businesses solve real problems

Seth Godin Blog

But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need housing, health care and food. They want delight, belonging and status. When a company shows up in the marketplace with a product or service that people eagerly choose to buy, it’s possible to make a profit. If there are assets and other ways to offer something at a premium, a business can actually thrive.

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It’s OK to Fail, but You Have to Do It Right

Harvard Business

Failing once at something new is an experiment, and experiments are crucial to success. Failing twice at the same thing might be more accurately called a mistake.

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It’s simple (it’s complicated)

Seth Godin Blog

It’s simple: This surgery will fix your problem and you’ll be better. It’s complicated: Changes in lifestyle, diet and attitude will, over time, help you feel better. Or… Our enemies are bad, and we’re good. Vote for me. The world is a big place that is filled with nuance, shifting alliances and constant change. It’s worth taking a minute to look for what works.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr