Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

How do Consulting Firms Work? Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. Your business just launched a new product and needs to market it. Market trends have changed, and you want to make sure the product will reach the correct target customer.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

Staff jobs only offer intangible and peripheral value, as I briefly discussed in Unemployed Agilists: How to Show Your Value to Support What Managers Want, Part 1. In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. Those are functional skills. Industry expertise.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You can stop worrying about the competition because today, I will teach you how to conduct a market scan and find your niche. Today, I'll walk you through the seven steps of your market scan and how to mine for the intel around what makes you unique and how you can stand out – even if you're brand new and just starting.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As an organization development consultant, I played a key role in aligning the senior executive team around how service was delivered on the front lines, what needed to happen to establish Disney's Animal Kingdom as a must-see park, and how the creative and operational teams partnered together.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Let Mandi Ellefson of Hands-Off CEO share how you can run your business profitably without you! How To Build A “Hands-Off” Consulting Business With Mandi Ellefson: Podcast #259 is a post from: Consulting Success. Even better, we can actually lead without working (and being) neck-deep in the company. Sounds impossible?

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Consulting Matters

JULY 15, 2020

This tutorial will show you how to build a consulting website that makes you the obvious solution for your future client's most pressing problems. The macro strategy is how your value proposition and brand gets manifested into relevant products and services. The micro strategy is around how visitors navigate through your site.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. Sub-par materials will inevitably affect the quality of the final product making it dangerous for the end users. .

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 5, 2022

This article is the third of a series of posts on how to build a company "operating system", the infrastructure that functions as a backbone of your most common tasks and daily activities. In particular in this article we focus on how to track company time on Airtable in order to be able to run analysis and optimization activities.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2023

They can impact team performance, collaboration, and productivity, create operational friction among teams, and cause employees to feel disengaged, distrustful, and unmotivated. Unaddressed and unresolved interpersonal tensions and toxic behavior can lead to organizational failure.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2017

Most of us work pretty hard to ensure an even schedule throughout the working week: five or more days of calm, measured – if industrious – productivity. Taking even a 30 second break can improve your productivity by 13% – so it is worth doing, even if your logical mind reckons that working straight through will get more done.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I asked my partner Jen Hamilton - our community Chief Operating Officer to be my guest today and share all the deets on the what you'll need and how much it all costs so that you can plan in advance for both the startup and ongoing costs. You can see another how-to video about trying to decide which web domain and platform to use.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 29, 2020

Here's some of the most common money fears and how to get over them. In the past you operated in a compensation model where you do work and then get paid. Now you're operating in a return on investment model where you invest your money, time and talents in your business with the expectation of a return.

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Asamby Consulting

APRIL 14, 2022

The Operating System is the main infrastructure that allows a company to run. Using Airtable as a company "operating system" This blog post shows how to create a simple CRM on Airtable. This is the first of a series of posts where we will show how you can use Airtable to build your company's "operating system".

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Instead, let's consider how to see management's adaptable and resilient actions. Maybe experiment with changing their current products and services. Possibly, create new products and services to disrupt their current market. Instead of detailed plans, how can management make small plans and learn from them?

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? What Affects Employee Productivity? Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 29, 2022

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. He was a Product Management Intern at PNC Bank and is an incoming Innovation Development Summer Analyst at JPMorgan Chase.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

APRIL 5, 2021

Not only do you have to oversee the product/service and operations, you also have to plan the strategic direction of the business. Whether you're running the show yourself or leading a team of 25, small business ownership is difficult.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. To meet the moment, this article argues that organizations may need to change the way they operate to innovate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. Its success offers other legacy companies lessons in how to navigate this process.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s why it’s critical to keep both front and back office operations running smoothly and effectively. Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. Learn more.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Do Your Leaders Know How to Build Leadership Team Trust? How To Build Leadership Team Trust Which team do you identify with? This may be difficult for some who are used to operating in their own silo and prefer not to depend on others. But how else are you going to find out who you can trust?Also,

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. Like me, you may have first learned about this company from their marketing campaign: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.". References. BASF at a glance.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I want to show you how you can actively manage and use the three coordinating mechanisms Hierarchy Standardization and Informal communication to get in control of your company and end this chaos. Building a product, selling a service or solving a problem, etc. Standardization The second coordinating mechanism is Standardization.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We had (and still have) too many products to keep the same teams on them for a long time. For programs, the team stayed together and moved to a different feature set/internal product until the program finished. We could move to a new product and/or a new team. My job was to smooth the way for people to deliver products.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They have an operating budget based on the amount of their grant. The productivity of a researcher can be evaluated using an index such as the h-index. In business, productivity and performance is often measured using financial ratios that can be used to compare firms across the industry. They have to use their resources (e.g.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Operations leaders routinely make critical decisions across the entire value chain. How can we plan production to maximize throughput? How can we schedule maintenance tasks to minimize disruptions? However, many operations leaders must climb a steep learning curve to understand the best ways to apply advanced analytics.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. But figuring out how executives think can be challenging for consultants and coaches if we haven't been executives before.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 6, 2018

A lot of times, what we see for new product companies are you’ve got a couple of founders where one knows the product well because that started the idea, and then one knows how to market and sell the product. Once you have those two things together, the next piece is the ecommerce operations piece.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Few enterprise tools have the potential to revolutionize daily operations and help businesses achieve best-case ROIs like a CRM. However, three key benefits of a CRM stand out by delivering the most long-term value: Enhancing business visibility with unprecedented insights into everyday operations. What was the expected ROI?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Apple’s and Amazon’s product lines are showcase examples of how to build a business ecosystem. In short, it means that companies are expanding beyond their traditional core products in order to increase opportunities for cross-selling and to boost customer ownership. Not likely.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2022

Studies have linked higher levels of organizational commitment with: Increased employee productivity. Decreased operating costs. Studies have demonstrated that satisfied employees are more productive, have higher retention rates increase company revenue, and lower costs. Conclusion: How to build organizational commitment.

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Consulting Success

JULY 17, 2017

He helps incubate technology-oriented startup initiatives within other companies, including new business units, innovation areas, and new product development. How can you sell a $200,000 project? Steve has great insights on how to help companies see the outcome of their investment. Sell the vision!

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2018

Productive: “Achieving or producing a significant amount of result.” ” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” I’m also familiar with the fact that individuals fall on a productivity spectrum.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

Reducing changeover time of machines—the time it takes to switch from the last “good” part of product A to the next “good” part of product B—is one of the most powerful tools in lean manufacturing. The concept applies to any other process in which you need to make a change from one “product” to another. in history.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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