Women in Consulting

MAY 21, 2019

A few years ago, the Women In Consulting Annual Best Practices Survey unveiled some tricks by top consultants that helped improved my business’ profitability and my work/life balance. Here’s one: I learned top consultants out-source the administration of their company so they can maximize their time on generating revenue.

Benchmarking 67

Benchmarking Survey Case Study Case Studies 67

Killer Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

There is no way to sugarcoat this: managing knowledge in a consulting firm is f **g hard. How did this benchmark value get calculated exactly? You can make your consultants fill out “post engagement forms” and “case studies” and “one pagers” all you want. Crazy idea for consultants, I know. Make it culture.

Management 40

Management Consulting How To Case Study 40

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 27, 2008

Thanks to Marquis first and foremost, who is both a fellow Stanford grad and fellow ex-McKinsey consultant. He regularly blogs about management consulting and MBA issues and has sensible, smart advice for just about everything career-related. Day in the Life of a Management Consultant (client version). Check out his blog here.

Cover Letters 100

Cover Letters Resumes Case Interview Case Study 100

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2020

Now, you create 3-5 Key Results: Create and publish benchmarks to prove Product X leads the category in the next quarter. Obtain 3 customer case studies in the next quarter that show Product X works for them in ways other products don't. The post Pros and Cons of OKRs appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Benchmarking Productivity Case Study Case Studies 94

Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2017

PhDs and expensive consultants on the payrolls of InnoCentive and NineSigma even got involved. One author of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Threadless observes that, based on numbers of applications, the odds of winning admission to Harvard are higher than the chance of winning a Threadless contest.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Benchmarking Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

“Also, look at what you will be doing, what success looks like, and what benchmarks you’ll be judged against,” he says. Case Study #1: Do due diligence on salary considerations and be open to making trade-offs. At the time, Jane was a consultant and counted AltaMed among her clients. So she took the job.

How To 52

How To Recruiting Recruitment Case Interview 52

Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

If meeting takt time is not an issue—for example, in closing the books at the end of the month— then measure and benchmark the time it takes to perform those tasks and challenge the team to figure out how to do them faster. Make speed and quality a goal for office functions. Start treating offices errors and mistakes as real defects.

Engineering 133

Engineering Benchmarking Meeting Case Study 133