Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This article offers ideas of how to do this, as well as some sample language to use. Do some market-rate benchmarking to learn what other consultants are charging, or what clients are paying. I value the relationship we’ve developed over the last two years, and certainly want to continue being of service to you and the team.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 11, 2023

In this article, we will showcase the tremendous benefits of starting a business with the help of a business consulting agency. Consultants assist in defining business objectives, identifying target markets, developing competitive strategies, and establishing financial projections.

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BCG

JUNE 15, 2016

Article Wednesday, June 15, 2016. For 14 years, BCG has conducted a proprietary benchmarking survey of wealth management providers from all over the world, running the spectrum from small boutiques to the world’s largest wealth managers—and covering multiple business models, from onshore to offshore and from banking to brokerage.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 10, 2024

In this article, we explore this distinction, the role of ISO 20700 as a gateway to the profession, and how it paves the way towards certification as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). They can trust that a consultant adhering to ISO 20700 standards or holding a CMC designation will deliver services that meet global benchmarks.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Article Thursday, September 08, 2016. Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. To understand how this context should influence decision making, The Boston Consulting Group conducted extensive research on family businesses in both developed and emerging markets.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are other ways to bill for your talent and expertise but those will be covered in another article. Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. It takes practice to quote your consulting billing rate with confidence.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

In this article, we will delve into the heart of these challenges and provide actionable tips to overcome them. For example, Google popularized the 20% Rule , under which it has traditionally allowed employees to spend up to 20% of their paid work time on developing personal projects.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

How can senior leaders help HR develop a culture in which people think analytically? Once you understand the different levels of analytical comfort and expertise that exist within your HR team, you can determine how to hire and develop each type of HR professional. Developing analytical capability.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2023

The hypothesis-based problem solving (HBPS) approach is a method employed by consultants to develop actionable recommendations for clients using a structured, evidence-based process. A workplan’s purpose is to help you gather the right amount of data to prove or disprove the hypotheses you have developed.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

That is, they must develop digital and data capabilities that radically simplify their businesses while dramatically improving the customer experience through greater efficiency, quality, and speed. This article—one of three publications composing the full report—includes an overview of the industry’s financial performance.

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Chad Barr

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This content often manifests itself in various formats which includes posting tips and ideas on the various social media platforms, personal quotes, producing written articles on blogs, newsletters, print and online publications. This framework can be used to construct a short article, podcast or video. Number one is your strategy.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Behave as if developing and retaining knowledge is truly important.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Find answers to these questions in the article. . OPM3 was developed by the experts of the Project Management Institute, so it’s considered as a standard for achieving organizational PM maturity. The Project Management Maturity Model developed by PM Solutions Consulting Company is a two-dimensional framework.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 18, 2019

One resource I'd recommend to develop your computation accuracy and speed is www.CaseInterviewMath.com. This is a math practice tool that I developed for practicing: 1) arithmetic for speed and accuracy and 2) estimation math with large numbers. Practice Data Interpretation.

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BCG

JULY 11, 2016

Article Monday, July 11, 2016. Meanwhile, for the better part of a decade, asset managers have worked largely on their own to develop risk management policies and best practices. Worldwide, regulatory responses to the crisis have, until recently, taken different paths, with EU regulators going furthest in their rulemaking.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 15, 2021

One resource I’d recommend to develop your computation accuracy and speed is www.CaseInterviewMath.com. This is a math practice tool that I developed for practicing: 1) arithmetic for speed and accuracy and 2) estimation math with large numbers.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. When calculated before project commencement, it serves as a benchmark.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

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Management Consulted

JULY 10, 2016

We’re starting this article off assuming that you’ve already knocked some socks off during networking (see here ) and created a masterful resume and cover letter (see here ). Once you pass a certain benchmark score on the test, you will be invited back for the second round. But have no fear!

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 2, 2019

In the previous article on ‘The Smart Intern’, we broadly talked about seeking feedback and working on it fast as the time available during your internship is limited. In this article, we will explore how to get the best feedback and implement an improvement strategy. Do you have a benchmark in mind?

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. How did he think up such a career? Organization and Change.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

A recent report in the Journal of Management noted that of nearly 25,000 academic articles on performance, only a fraction include what psychologists call within person variance , which describes ranges, such as that between individuals’ top, average and worst performances. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

And second, they need to ensure that – even with respect to strategy and operations – board scrutiny doesn’t result in an over-emphasis on conforming to benchmarks and industry norms. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Letting your ETR slip to the benchmark could risk your customers’ trust.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development. June, 13-14, Cracow, Poland ACE! This year’s event will embrace two tracks.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

Choose a broadly accepted benchmark, and set a narrow goal to see whether and where you can meaningfully add value. When looking at Yelp data, for example, we considered census data a significant benchmark, since it is something commonly used within research and policy work. Principle 2: Develop credible analyses.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

By completing it, you will be able to benchmark your company’s reorg against a number of best practices, identified in our book, ReOrg: How to Get it Right. By participating, you will help us continue to develop the science of reorgs so that companies can deliver more value and upset people less.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. I’ll give a few examples, starting with his first HBR article but mostly concerning later work. (A Sound familiar?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the research, Korn Ferry used our best-in-class CEO benchmark, which comprises typical scores for CEOs (virtually all male) who are in the 99th percentile of work engagement, as a touchstone to highlight similarities and underscore differences for the women in the study. Some women expressed frustration about the delay.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although organizations spend more than $24 billion annually on leadership development, many leaders who have attended leadership programs struggle to implement what they’ve learned. Our research on leadership development shows that leaders who are in learning mode develop stronger leadership skills than their peers.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Having worked in HR at a large banking corporation and in strategic HR consulting, I’ve seen the effects of learning and development on career mobility — and what leads people to let it fall by the wayside. Set a golden benchmark. Of course, that benchmark will change as you develop. Get synchronous.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. The EPI numbers are bleak for many of these groups, clearly, but in this article I’m most concerned with black men and women.). There are disturbing trends in economic mobility for African-Americans nationwide.

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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. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2016

Processes for developing and retaining sales talent break down. Set a benchmark for what percent of salespeople should make their goals (typically 60%–75%). If the percentage making their goals in each of the last several incentive periods is near the benchmark, your goals are probably realistic.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The article is based on the webinar “Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones, to Achieve Excellent Reliability” with TOC experts Eli Schragenheim and Albert Ponsteen. This article explores managing uncertainty in organizations. Such insights lead to a reassessment of the benchmarks set for capacity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

For a deep dive into the elements, see our related HBR article “ The B2B Elements of Value ”). The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He had a close connection to evolving customers, shrewd instincts about how the market was developing, and a keen sense of the disruption that was needed in the region. Executive development. Senior-leadership-development programs are a second diagnostic tool to use during the search for savvy internal successors.

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