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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

Consider examples like data analysis experts, Google search engine advisors, and CRM strategists. For example, if you are planning a change management project, you’ll want a diplomatic person who’s attentive to the needs of others. Independent consultants aren’t likely to have benchmark data on hand.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

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. Often times, facts can change the conversation from tired head-nodding to curiosity.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Financial performance.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

Whether it’s an executive, an entrepreneur, or a technologist, some innovator changes the game, and that which was thought to be unreachable becomes a benchmark, something for others to shoot for. Was there a genetic engineering experiment that created a new race of super runners? What changed was the mental model.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

Women in Project Management March, 7, Dublin, Ireland During this annual event, women engaged in project management will have an opportunity to network with their peers, sophisticate their skills, exchange their ideas, share experiences as well as learn from innovators, decision-makers, developers, and more.