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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. If you have worked with that company before, you are worth a lot more to them than someone who is unfamiliar with the players, culture, structure, and politics. The tactics in this article will help if you bill by the hour or by the day. There are lots of ways to do this.

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Business intelligence vs. predictive analytics: Turn key differences into advantages

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It encompasses data mining, data visualization, performance benchmarking, and descriptive analytics—techniques for parsing data to generate reports, performance measures and trends to reveal insights and make better business decisions. Business intelligence answers the questions, “who are our most valuable/least valuable customers?”

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

.” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group. ” Now a full 50% of the assessment was subjective.

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6 Things New Grads Should Know Before Joining a Startup

Harvard Business

It’s also going to be a lot harder to benchmark the offer they give you against salaries at other firms. Well, a lot of startups don’t offer benefits like dental or health insurance, or a 401k plan; they’re just not in a financial place where they can offer them yet. The culture is constantly evolving.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By looking at the CX lifecycle though granular intents, companies can 1) benchmark where they are strong/blemished, 2) identify where a human touch in a contact center helps/over-indexes the needs of a customer, and 3) solve for customers’ CX needs with surgical precision.”

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. For example, automobile insurance companies like Allstate, Progressive and State Farm have launched programs to use connected devices to monitor customers’ driving patterns. Digital leaders are 2.3x

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

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? They Use Culture Change to Drive Engagement. This required a culture of risk taking and exploration. Financial performance.