Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. Now, all of a sudden their operations are getting very sophisticated. We have a really great product. I felt like they got a lot out of it.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. For example, he had one patient begin an exercise program by simply marching in place for one minute in front of the television.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate. A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 17, 2020

My guidance has usually been in the context of a client seeing major drops in sales, engaging in layoffs, and redirecting the team in a productive direction (as opposed to being paralyzed by fear or working on their resumes). I’ve also led mass casualty training exercises as a field operations leader and incident commander.

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Leadership Case Interview Interviews Sales 88

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2017

Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. Derek became my mentor, and over the past 10 years we have trained thousands of leaders to overcome their stress. Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being. Cat Yu for HBR. But I no longer worry about it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

But it’s still crucial to make sense of the environments in which we operate and foresee how different factors will affect our decisions. The US Military has become an expert in preparing for combat operations using war games. At Merck, war-gaming exercises around critical decisions were used frequently.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“The medieval guild system was a primitive networking exercise.” The innovation of the Bolognese silk makers was to operate the Lucca machine with a hydraulic wheel, instead of by hand. They advocated a mix of in-company “learning by doing” training and formal training, and offered new mechanical qualifications.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

By better understanding when mindfulness is the right approach, HR and training programs can better enhance both leader performance and employee wellbeing. The business implications are manifest: higher productivity and fewer conceptual gaps. These people showed better concentration, even when multi-tasking. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

JULY 30, 2018

. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise. ” “We have so much to learn from sports culture”, Bunge continued.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

This led us to wonder how organizations can exercise control over proactive employees without overly constraining them. It tracked 383 middle managers operating in 34 business units of a multinational in the logistics service industry. Max suggested implementing a piece of new technology to improve the efficiency of his product line.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. Training may not suffice in some cases, where egos or heavily ingrained top-down behaviors get in the way.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

An organizational focus is associated with stable employment with low turnover, extensive use of training, and the dominance of internal considerations, such as a desire for equity in pay. And improved worker productivity and lower turnover frequently more than offsets these firms’ higher labor rates.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2017

Not Operating at Your Peak. And research shows that you can train yourself to do this too. Mindfulness or simple physical stretching exercises in the middle of the day can help you feel more relaxed. Those extra minutes to properly learn it will place less of a strain on your brain. of the population can do it really well.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

Working long hours, taking few vacations, and never truly being “off” — because of the ubiquity of digital devices — is “harmful to your relationships, your health, and also your productivity,” he says. Skimp on exercise, sleep, and wholesome food. Redefine success.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In their medical training , physicians often are taught to maintain a clinical distance and an even temperament. The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. We disagree. Unhurried medical care may be elusive, but it is practical.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Less dry-cleaning bills! Less distractions.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. ” This can be a useful exercise, but don’t let it consume you, says Ruback. ” scenarios.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. To understand a product’s sales potential, executives want industry-specific indicators.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Initially launched as a war against non-value-added activity, GE trained all staff in the removal of non-productive processes and the overall programme was labelled Workout. Leveraging synergy within and between businesses (maximum separation + optimum co-operation). Disallow game playing.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

Further, laws define independent contracting as the case where the hired party exercises independence in determining basic features of the relationship like rates of pay, how and where tasks are done, and the opportunities for expanding or contracting that work based on the individual’s own skills, abilities, and enterprise.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Since its founding in 2010, Iora has attracted more than $123 million in funding and now operates 37 practices serving 40,000 patients in 11 states.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. Depending on what you’re working on, “pay attention to where you feel comfortable and where you are most productive,” and frame your request around that. Can you help?”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. increased work productivity and income, decreased crime and incarceration, and so on). Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The nurse has real-time phone access to a geriatric care–trained nurse practitioner who, based on the nurse’s assessment, can order tests (including in-home imaging) and prescriptions and make treatment decisions. The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. He had been director of product management at Dell Computer before coming to Stanford.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Selling productized consulting. Examples: How to Scale a Coaching and Training Firm with Mary Ann Samedi. As a consultant, your product is your advice. He said he did a quick Internet search for ‘ag equipment product design’ and we were in the top few results. Selling Productized Consulting. Case studies.

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