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Take Steps Now to Protect Your Independent Status!

Successful Independent Consulting

About two months ago, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case Dynamex Operations West Inc. The company must only contract for the end product, not how it is achieved. It’s because of this third part of the test that you need to pay attention to how you operate.

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California Supreme Court Ruling Impacts Independent Consulting and Subcontracting – Keep It Legal!

Women in Consulting

By: Henry Telfeian. :: Two months ago, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the case Dynamex Operations West Inc. The company must only contract for the end product, not how it is achieved. The first requirement aligns with the previously established “right to control” test and is nothing new.

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5 Surprising Findings About How People Actually Buy Clothes and Shoes

Harvard Business

Apparel brands are investing especially heavily in online shopping capabilities and introducing interactive features that complement apps and websites. Retailers and manufacturers are rushing out new products to keep pace with the leaders of fast fashion such as Zara, H&M, and Forever 21, which launch new fashions every week or so.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. In addition to improved product quality and delivery times, the lean approach has been linked to improved terms of employment. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. However, consultancies are not the only oversubscribed employers who need to find the individuals to cope with demanding jobs.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?