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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

People who market themselves as independent professionals and operate as small businesses can charge more than those who work as subcontractors. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Do an internet search such as “typical hourly rate for change management consultant in [your location].”

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How To Help Ensure Strategy Scorecards Don’t Fail You

Steve Shu Consulting

For example, should a benchmarking framework be used? In the scorecard below, I’ve also depicted areas where the company needs to make improvements (operational and tactical focus) and where the company needs to differentiate longer-term (strategic focus). . Or will that framework lead us down a path of mediocrity?

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. workforce and 14% of the European workforce operate as freelance professionals. .

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

Epicflow

The event will be of interest to project controls engineers, project leaders/managers, resource managers, change management experts, risk managers, business consultants, and more. In particular, the discussions will focus on the need to adapt latest technological solutions to achieve operational effectiveness.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

Consequently, it is useful to think about investments in digital as essentially investments in change. It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight.

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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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How One Company Got Employees to Speak Up and Ask for Help

Harvard Business

The more calls they received, the more operators they needed, and the more their margins eroded. No market research or benchmarking data would have suggested it. And once they found it, it didn’t need careful change management to extend it to the rest of Customer Support. ” Yeah, ouch.

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