The Consultants Peer Group

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I presented five problems associated with the commonly accepted ‘standard’ consulting proposal – the kind that can be found online with a simple search. There will be ample opportunity to address/present what you do (IT, HR, OD, Strategy, Marketing, etc.), In Proposals Part 1: Why They are a Waste? your skills and knowledge.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2015

Timelines have proved to get drawn out, which can lead to delays like those experienced by Xiamoi Corp in starting operations in a foreign nation. Language barriers often present problems with an overseas business. If these areas present any problems, expansion may need to take place elsewhere.

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Intellectual Property Government Culture Marketing 60

Jerry Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Your presentation slides look good even if they have too many words. It’s great until it isn’t. They have made it nearly impossible to intentionally misspell a word.

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Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Whether you’re a one-person operation or a hundred-employee company, your business must publish great content to generate interest from your target market. The key is to share your intellectual property directly with your ideal customers. Present your potential customers with tremendous value that can’t be ignored.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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Rod Burkert

MAY 8, 2019

If so, I hope you found last week’s conversation about 7 secrets for presenting to prospects to be useful in your conversion efforts. It’s a fairly prestigious event in our BVFLS circles, and I am flattered to have been asked to present. Most of us operate in the 1:1 client service only world. On to this week.

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Intellectual Property Conference Productivity Ethics 40

Rod Burkert

JANUARY 15, 2019

Imagine creating a course or webinar series (based on work we’ve done in the past or valuation issues we are researching now) that is taught multiple times a year for an industry or trade association – and we get paid to present it. But our presenter fee stays the same (or, gasp, increases). One-to-Masses Business Model.

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Intellectual Property Course Industry Examples 40

Comatch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This means that firms need to draw up new policies that take into account the new scenery in which they will operate today. From due diligence to intellectual property, from payment processes to technology risk, contracts and processes need to be updated and adapted to the modern landscape. It’s not as daunting as it looks.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Intellectual property theft. It is well-known that the Chinese government en gages extensively in IP theft.

Ethics 28

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 13, 2014

Britain’s finest educational name … ignores the explosion in online learning and fails dismally to exploit its intellectual property commercially … It lives off past glories, and is doomed to fade unless it reforms vigorously. It will consequently find life much harder in the 21st century. Substitute for Bricks and Mortar.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 1, 2024

These consultants typically assist their clients in strategy, operations, profitability, and risk mitigation. This blog will continue to highlight some other types of consulting roles that are present in our world today. But What Else is Out There?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

This is increasingly risky, as contingent and other non-full-time workers possess more of your vital strategic skills and deal with sensitive intellectual property. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2016

Today, we are seeing companies with core intellectual properties (IPs) emerging out of Africa. That opened opportunities for local companies like Lagos-based AppZone and Nairobi-based Craft Silicon , both fintech companies, to expand operations across the continent. They also partnered with local professionals.

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Intellectual Property Government Banking Software 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. The information presented itself along two big dimensions: the power-generation assets owned by the centralized power plants (i.e.,

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Company Research Software Operations 28

Rod Burkert

MAY 23, 2018

What if you stood out by promising something different than the standard operating procedures your competition follows? Economic and industry information is often presented by just attaching the downloads as an appendix. Transaction work and intellectual property seem to be growing pies. So what if you took a stand?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Instead, chief executives are often presented with two “right” answers, but one is slightly worse. Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Indeed, employees at every turn faced personal and professional risks in defying the law; two European executives were indicted and arrested for operating without required permits. But that is not enough.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

Since a new business model requires disrupting the present, it’s important to be thoroughly conversant with your prevailing model and how your business creates value. You need to understand the strategic factors relevant to your company’s present success — otherwise, your search for disruption is likely to be way off base.

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Tsavo Neal

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Your presenting an idea — a company — and not just a single human being. That said, these firms have done a great job of presenting an approachable, friendly brand that helps them attract and nurture new business. Echelon Front Jamie Cochran, Director of Operations at Echelon Front.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Video presentations. but a simple 3 to 5 lesson video course where your prospect gets the chance to see you and hear you as if they were attending a presentation of yours. Maybe you really, really don’t like writing, but you still want to create a great piece of intellectual property that “sticks.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

The firm had been buying his intellectual property with stock. Armstrong, apoplectic, presented voluminous scientific evidence to disprove the theory. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

In recent years, the Chinese frequently stole sensitive commercial data , such as intellectual property, to gain competitive advantages for their state-owned enterprises. The motivations behind Russian hackers are the most diverse of any team with government connections.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He claims he wants to tackle the big systemic concerns involving theft of American intellectual property, the forced transfer of technology from American firms, and the state-driven nature of the Chinese economy. On December 1, in Buenos Aires, President Trump started the 90-day clock to negotiate a trade deal with China.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It would also establish rules for economic activities that are typically beyond the scope of trade deals negotiated by other countries—activities such as intellectual property, e-commerce, government procurement, and customs and delivery services. The TPP would eliminate almost all barriers to trade over time.

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