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How to manage knowledge in a consulting firm

Killer Consultant

Now let me share some insights with you: Knowing who to ask beats finding lots of documents. Oftentimes, the documents tell only half the story. 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.

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Five Ways to Spur Lean in the Office

Markovitz Consulting

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. Stand in an Ohno Circle.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

.” And despite the repeated mantra about “data-driven,” there is contradictory advice about which content-marketing benchmarks indicate success as well as many blithe assertions about best practices in this area. The tried and true case study is, by far, the content that prospects complete more than others.