Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This article shows how several small food companies were able to use cross-training to improve service and job quality. Any industry can learn from these approaches to improve operations, customer experience, and employee experience. Cross-training helps employees build capabilities that they can leverage in their career growth.

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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.) Solopreneurs who come from “name” firms like PwC or McKinsey can charge more than those who come from industry.

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Effective Managers

MARCH 10, 2024

In the world of consulting, a distinction is often overlooked: the difference between the industry at large and the profession of management consulting. 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).

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 3, 2023

CAMPBELL, CA – August 3, 2023 Training Industry today announced that Clarity Consultants was named to the 2023 Training Industry Top 20 list of Learning Services companies. Industry visibility, innovation and impact in the learning services market. This marks Clarity’s seventh year in a row on the list.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Industry SMB Software Talent 52

Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2021

Consulting, like many other industries, is under threat from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The risks to the management consulting industry are summarized well in an article written by Alexandre Gonfalonieri , an AI Consultant based in Paris.

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Consulting Success

MAY 20, 2022

An entrepreneurial consultant is a business owner who provides expert advice in a particular field or industry. More on this in the next section of the article) If you’re a knowledge worker, an entrepreneurial consulting business is one of the BEST businesses you can start. What is an entrepreneurial consultant?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2023

What will artificial intelligence do to industries and jobs? For a preview, look to the finance industry which has been incorporating data and algorithms for a long time, and which is always a canary in the coal mine for new technology.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 31, 2018

It’s very simple: Whenever she writes a newsletter article, she offers something free that people can request from her and that she can send back via email. Like Teresa, I’m going to offer you something free at the end of this article, so stay tuned. The other thing she shared was how she got mass distribution of her articles.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This article was written by ChatGPT using the transcript of the roundtable, but it was lightly edited. Example: The initial image for this article was of a female assistant so I changed the prompt to “non-human assistant.”] Like I did for this article!) The prompts I gave to ChatGPT are in the postscript.)

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2023

Construction is often maligned as the industry that technology left behind. Industry observers routinely deride the lack of technological sophistication in the construction industry, and have pigeon-holed it as old-fashioned and lagging behind more forward-looking and purposeful industries such as manufacturing.

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Markovitz Consulting

JUNE 9, 2020

But as the article notes, Retail customers, though, have a peculiar habit of paying up front. And if they do, the inventory usually can’t be collected—mushrooms and peaches have a shorter shelf life than dishwashers and office furniture. That places a huge cash burden on the distributors and suppliers.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

This article will look into the consulting industries current pitfalls and future in terms of transparency and digitalization. A Brief on the Growth of the Global Consulting Industry. Year after year, the global consulting industry has faced signs of growth. Also read: The Growth of the Consulting Industry in the Nordics.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the previous article , we’ve reviewed the most prominent trends that are expected to impact the aerospace and defense industry this year. So, in this article, we’ll focus on the A&D project and resource management challenges stemming from the current trends in the industry and examine the ways to address them. .

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2024

Instead, organizations should consider creating alumni programs to stay in touch with former workers, who can provide new business opportunities, share industry insights, enhance employer branding and reputation, and support hiring processes by providing referrals or coming back as returning employees themselves.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 14, 2020

They’re in an industry your consulting firm targets, and Bernie himself revealed in a recent trade magazine article that his company is struggling with the wheaty weighty challenges your consulting firm solves. Bernie’s Bagel Empire (BBE) is the perfect client for your consulting firm.

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QEmploy

MAY 2, 2019

The Nordic consulting industry has experienced a drastic increase in previous years. This astounding growth rate in the industry is ignited by the digital transformation and technological advances. The health care industry in the Nordics has also experienced this ongoing change into the digital transformation. Growing by 5.7%

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

There's a great article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek that while several years old does a great job at discussing how the global strategy consulting industry got started, why Boston Consulting Group was founded, how Bain was a spinoff of BCG, and how Bain Capital was a spinoff of Bain. These were all firms where Romney worked.).

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BCG

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Article Wednesday, October 05, 2016. The Russian automotive industry has experienced significant ups and downs in the past decade. In 2015, the industry sold just 1.5 Today, as a limping economy continues to hold domestic buyers in check, the industry finds itself with far too much production capacity.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The fit interview is like a behavioral interview for the consulting industry. The direct questions,… Read Article. Within that, there are distinct fit interview question types a candidate should be aware of. Today, we’re sharing about 3 types of fit interview questions.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 11, 2024

Creation without disruption or nondisruptive creation is about creating a new market outside or beyond existing industry boundaries, and has its own organizational and business advantages. Disruption is not the only path to innovation and growth. 2) It is an effective way to respond to full-on disruption.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MARCH 23, 2016

Publishing business articles is a potentially rewarding business development technique. If it is naïve then to assume that lots and lots of readers of your published articles will quickly and directly become new clients, one might therefore question whether writing and publishing articles offers you any business benefit at all.

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CaseInterview.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I am an Industry hire - meaning I graduated from business school and worked in industry before making my way to consulting. Members get access to 6 hours of video tutorials on case interviews , the actual frameworks I used to pass my interviews, and over 500 articles on case interviews. Kearney and I accepted.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 6, 2018

As the frequency of answering this question increased, I felt that there was an urgent need to be fulfilled, so I decided to start blogging here with a series of articles trying to answer this question in a most efficient and insightful way. The management consulting industry is far from being a big mono chunk. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

At first glance, it looks like health care in the United States is ripe for disruption.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2018

In this article, you will learn about three industries in which IoT disruptions are likely to have a major impact. IoT is already changing the industry through the development of intelligent transport systems as well as in-vehicle monitoring systems that can record a wealth of telemetry data, as well as respond to changes in real-time.

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Industry Transportation Telecommunications Wireless 74

Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

In a world filled with tweets, ever-breaking news, a thousand TV channels and podcasts galore, is there any point to toiling away at an article, then seeking a journal or magazine willing to publish it? Publishing articles can promote your business. Publishing articles offer higher levels of credibility.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 4, 2024

In this article, the authors present new research on the B Corp Movement’s approach to inform strategies that can help leaders in any industry strike a balance between these competing demands and navigate the paradoxical imperatives to expand while staying true to their mission.

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Company Research Industry Strategy 83

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 11, 2023

One particular facet of AI that is revolutionizing the finance industry is natural language processing , which leverages AI and machine learning algorithms to extract valuable insights from vast volumes of textual data. By analyzing news articles and regulatory updates, financial institutions can use NLP to anticipate changing regulations.

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Finance Analysis Data Financial 78

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The growing challenge of labor shortages across various industries has highlighted the need for innovative recruitment approaches to bridge the gap between job openings and the available workforce.

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Recruiting Recruitment Talent Strategy 91

BCG

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Article Monday, November 07, 2016 Multiple market disruptions—including the shale gas renaissance in the United States, plummeting oil prices worldwide, and a capacity expansion drive in China and Iran—are reshaping the Middle East’s petrochemical industry.

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Industry Chemicals Operations Development 68

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Especially in high-hazard industries, there’s nothing more central to your firm’s operations than worker safety. In this article, the author highlights a unique strategic partnership that helped the electrical transmission and distribution construction industry control injuries and fatalities caused by exposures to workplace hazards.

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Operations Construction Industry Company 81

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The incriminating title of this article was inspired by Charles Tilly’s book ‘ War Making and State Making as Organized Crime ’, which describes an instrumental, … Read the full article The post Consulting as Racketeering: The Fallacy of Corporate Overexpansion first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Article Monday, November 07, 2016 Multiple market disruptions—including the shale gas renaissance in the United States, plummeting oil prices worldwide, and a capacity expansion drive in China and Iran—are reshaping the Middle East’s petrochemical industry.

Industry 67

Industry Chemicals Operations Development 67

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

This article outlines three key reasons for the growth of China’s EV sector: experimenting in adjacent industries, encouraging operational solutions, and doubling down on core technology. How did China get to this point? What can companies looking to scale up their innovations learn from their approach?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Supply chains in commodity industries are often characterized by social and environmental abuse. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day. It is an environment rife with social and environmental abuse.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2022

How organizations can hold themselves — and the practitioners they work with — accountable for measurably improving outcomes for marginalized populations.

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