Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This article explains how to determine your “base rate”, and the external factors that will impact your pricing. Links to articles on how to raise your rate or switch to a fixed fee are at the end of this one.) Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For example, if you are planning a change management project, you’ll want a diplomatic person who’s attentive to the needs of others. Benchmarking: When projects require extensive back-office or benchmarking figures, it may make sense to rely on a more traditional consulting firm. Projects that require niche expertise.

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Consulting Management How To Benchmarking 52

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

The initiatives included streamlining patient administration in a hospital, implementing a customer-relationship-management (CRM) system in a financial services organization, rolling out a global enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) system for a pharmaceutical company, and promoting collaboration in a technology company.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Financial performance.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

Whether it’s an executive, an entrepreneur, or a technologist, some innovator changes the game, and that which was thought to be unreachable becomes a benchmark, something for others to shoot for. In business, progress does not move in straight lines.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

No market research or benchmarking data would have suggested it. And once they found it, it didn’t need careful change management to extend it to the rest of Customer Support. But, there was no special analysis that they could have done beforehand to figure that out.

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