Women in Consulting

MAY 21, 2019

As solo practitioners and entrepreneurs, often we have limited access to relevant benchmarking resources. Without violating any price-fixing laws, the Best Practices Survey lets us benchmark our success against our peers. Yet, the data in the Best Practices Survey is only as good as its participants.

Benchmarking 67

Benchmarking Survey Case Study Case Studies 67

Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

They pay way too much attention to shareholders, numbers, and data and not enough to the power of people. Consider GM as a case study. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics.

Study 88

Study Emotional Intelligence Leadership Finance 88

Killer Consultant

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Store all their project data on a server, catalogue it, index it, make it searchable (within the firm, of course)… but this won’t get you all the way. 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.

Management 40

Management Consulting How To Case Study 40

Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2017

Within six years, Kaggle had been acqui-hired by Google; a struggling TopCoder sold itself to Appirio; InnoCentive has been shrinking for years according to LinkedIn data; and Quirky has declared bankruptcy. But the glory didn’t last. What happened? Each winner receives just $2,500. The crowdsource 1.0

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Benchmarking Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

The goal is for the “interview to become a third independent data point.” “ One study found that impressions made in the first 10 seconds of an interview could impact the interview’s outcome,” Gino notes. ” Data can help you get buy-in. ” Consider likeability (if it matters to you).

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Software 28

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. Start treating offices errors and mistakes as real defects. Obsess over quality.

Engineering 133

Engineering Benchmarking Meeting Case Study 133

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

Marketing 37

Marketing Case Study Case Studies Sales 37