Consultant Ninja

JUNE 4, 2009

Consulting knowledge, however, appears not to be cumulative: there is no 'evidence' that consultancy advice works and considerable evidence that it is often concerned with the generation of fads for needs of insecure managers rather than organisational efficiency. Productivity. (6). So there you go. June 6, 2009 at 7:16 AM.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 26, 2014

It’s entirely possible to create buildings or signs or products that are brutally efficient, where no effort is put into grace or style or beauty. You may have noticed while traveling on airlines like American that many of the employees you encounter act as though they’re trapped. A variation on kindness is design.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 31, 2020

But what does it mean when the usual factors that drive customer loyalty—product, price, place, and promotion—have been stripped away or nullified? Research also shows that just increasing customer retention rates by 5 percent increases profits by 25 percent to 95 percent.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Because similar gaps exist between dozens of other hospital technologies, and clinicians are asked to perform hundreds of steps each day to deliver evidence-based care, unnecessary errors occur, and providers’ productivity has fallen , even while spending on technology has ballooned. Part of the solution must involve hospitals.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

I think this approach is more efficient because it reduces transaction related costs and provides a gain sharing program which is mutually beneficial for all parties. Productivity. (6). Either way, I am not nearly as pessimistic as everyone else. of nights) AMEX Charges: $83,296. Consulting. (88). Analysis. (40). Bitterness. (26).

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As consumers increasingly use their mobiles to become more knowledgeable about products - and even use their phones as an in-aisle companion whilst shopping in-store - the influence of mobile phones on shopping is something a consultant cannot ignore in their financial and business model advice. Comparison websites. Payment Apps.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Among those that have met that fate in recent months are initiatives at Target, Alaska Airlines, Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Chubb. Is the business unit being measured not just on how much revenue they generate from new products, but how many times they drop the ball or under-resource something that has been developed for them?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. This statistic is alarming, but in fact it significantly understates the scope of the threat.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

For a long time, Facebook Messenger seemed to be secondary to Facebook’s core business – a product feature rather than something more. This is stunning efficiency. You can complain to an airline on Twitter about a flight delay but you have to go through a song and dance to see if the person at the other end can help.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The SOEs also created jobs, but did so at huge expense: By taking productive land from farmers, by massive pollution, vacant cities and malls, forced migration, and an untenable reliance on fixed investment growth. We now see the effects in steel and cement production, crashing commodity prices, capital flight, and a plunging stock market.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast recalled to me, “Back in the early 2000s there were many things we wanted to accomplish with our online business but had a hard time doing because of the perception that we’d interfere with the well-oiled efficiency of the physical stores. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

But the primitive state of AI in EHRs is a major barrier to efficient care. Health care can learn a lot from the sensible rigor and discipline of the alert process in the airline cockpit. EHRs already have rudimentary artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help with billing, coding, and regulatory compliance.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.”

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Prudent Pedal

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

My approach delineated between my two schools of marketing thought in the professional services world–the Productivity School and the Growth School. If you are a Productivity School firm, use the Productivity School questions. Think Ritz Carlton, Southwest Airlines, or London’s Underground subway.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. This method works well for popular products in large regions but tends to fail when data gets thin because random noise overwhelms the underlying signal. Predicting demand. Predictive maintenance.

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Consultant Ninja

OCTOBER 3, 2008

There are really 2 market plays given this dynamic: Potential Market Play 1 : Take on the risk, but only if its commesurately balanced with the long-term reward, behaves on the efficient frontier of return, is completely understood, can be insured against external risks, and is aligned with the asset class allocation for your particular needs.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Some companies use this software for process innovation; others develop new products; others seek efficiencies and cost savings. It doesn’t matter whether they’re asking for process or product innovation, what industry the company is in, or even, for the most part, whether the company is large or small.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. What about efficiency? One employee, Mary, got the message. But then she froze. What was she meant to do?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

After that, each time shoppers with the app enter a beacon-enabled store, they can receive promotional messages or deals on their device about products in the aisles they are browsing. For example, feedback from a single customer about wait times may not be sufficient to generalize the operational efficiency of the staff.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Selling productized consulting. This is an efficient way to re-purpose your content and create more value out of what you’ve already produced. 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. Case studies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

Here’s the good news: The big airlines are revising their rules for booking and boarding flights — rules that led to one of the great business fiascos in recent history, United Express Flight 3411. Sometimes those stories even involve the airlines. There will be no additional rules.” Good luck with that!

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

Do you think the best way to get the cheapest plane tickets is by calling the airline? Finding cheap airline tickets can be one of the most frustrating experiences that most of us learn very quickly. Understand how prices are set by airlines! Airlines call this "yield management." January 12, 2011 at 12:10 AM.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016. In the U.S.,

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