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Clean Tech Consulting: Adapting to Seize Opportunities

Tom Spencer

By conducting comprehensive assessments of energy consumption, waste management, and carbon emissions, consultants can pinpoint areas with the greatest potential for cost savings and sustainability improvements. Consulting firms can assist by conducting thorough financial modeling and ROI analysis.

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Irresistible is rarely easy or rational

Seth Godin Blog

A team of MBAs doing a market analysis and a P&L would probably pin the value at about $8. That's where the ROI would be at its peak. If you run everything through a spreadsheet, you might end up with a rational plan, but the rational plan isn't what creates energy or magic or memories. As a result, profits went up.

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Do You Really Have Time to Do a Do-over?

Makarios Consulting

How long did it take – and at what cost in terms of time, resources, emotions, energy, team dynamics, and quality – to re-do the task at the eleventh hour? In the final analysis, you save far more time than it takes for you to sit with each employee on a regular basis and provide them with effective feedback. Ten minutes?

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Do You Really Have Time to Do a Do-over?

Makarios Consulting

How long did it take – and at what cost in terms of time, resources, emotions, energy, team dynamics, and quality – to re-do the task at the eleventh hour? In the final analysis, you save far more time than it takes for you to sit with each employee on a regular basis and provide them with effective feedback. Ten minutes?

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Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) Why a “Virtual PEO” May be the Better Option

Emerson Consulting Group

To many employers the most attractive feature of a PEO is the ability to be able to hand off the burden of management of HR and benefits so that the member employer can instead focus its management energy on core business plans. The ROI Comparison Rationale. As a result, PEOs are widely used. Here’s where the rubber meets the road.

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The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making

Harvard Business

You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. The shareholder asked Cook about the company’s renewable energy efforts and told him that Apple should only undertake such efforts if they were profitable.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

They own the customer, they’re the advocate, and they have the analysis. CX programs are like mountain climbing — if you aren’t confidently moving through the problem, you may be wasting valuable energy trying to figure out where you’re going. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes.

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