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Thinking Like a Consultant: Paralysis by Analysis

Management Consulted

I exhibited the one dark downside of thinking like a consultant: paralysis by analysis. And while I love all that my training as a consultant gave me, please don’t fall into the trap that says “thinking like a consultant” is the best way to approach every area of your life. Sometimes, being a consultant is the worst.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. Eric Raptosh Photography/Getty Images.

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Transforming Governance Through Modern Technology

Tom Spencer

However, by adopting new online tools, organizations can improve efficiency by enabling smoother collaboration, more efficient information sharing, and reduced travel costs. Harnessing Artificial Intelligence Leveraging AI for data analysis can unlock valuable insights to facilitate informed decision-making and enhance stakeholder engagement.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

With a deep-dive review, the outside information can be invaluable to see the true price picture The consultant can perform a gap analysis and help your company develop a plan to close gaps and apply lessons learned to future pricing submissions. Finally, the analysis can explore any new indirect pools that you might need to establish.

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Simon-Kucher & Partners Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

As an interesting aside, Simon-Kucher recently went outside the box and tried something new in the industry: they developed an iPhone app to allow businesses to perform quick analysis and find easy solutions to everyday business problems. Transportation, Travel & Tourism. Travel is unavoidable at Simon-Kucher. Healthcare.

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Conversation with Marakon

Tom Spencer

Delivering the project work means working with the senior associates and associates to plan the work, generate hypotheses, review analysis and focus on what is important from a client perspective. That being said, the travel model will vary depending on the needs of the client. Tom: What projects are you currently working on?

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Management Consulting in Canada

Tom Spencer

Consultancies are brought in to tackle individual problems (falling revenue, rising costs, geographical expansion, product launch, M&A) or to evaluate the company through a deep dive analysis. This can be cost effective compared to reallocating internal resources and training staff to operate outside of their core competency.