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What does a Business Consultant do?

ConsultX

Wikipedia states: The consultant is in a role of sharing her or his knowledge and advice In recent years, we’ve seen sales-people take on the title of consultant, as they provide advice on the product they’re selling. What they actually do In the world of professional consulting, we generally see most consultants working on a project.

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Lettuce Bot - Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis

MishTalk

On the Salinas Valley farm, entrepreneurs with Mountain View-based startup Blue River Technology are trying to show that the Lettuce Bot can not only replace two dozen workers, but also improve production. food system - particularly fruit and vegetable production - depends on immigrants more than any other sector of the U.S.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business

Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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(Re)Designing the HR Organization (Kates, Human Resource Planning, 2006)

Kates Kesler

This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws. As businesses become more complex, so must the HR organizations that support them.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. ” The intention was right, but there was no operational impact. In a “better product” market, 80% of the touches with your customers are handled by humans, your employees.

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