Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Don’t wed yourself to a “benchmark” : You might want to price according to what you consider your competition. So you don’t want to “benchmark” because the important idea is value and that is in the customer’s head. Discounts teach your customers to wait. All of these are bad outcomes for you.

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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. My clients are happier too since I can use my virtual assistant for administrative tasks on their business as well.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Benchmarking creates additional complexity for public sector consulting, which private firms do not need to face. Unions, lobby groups, and other pressure groups can occasionally wield disproportionate influence on policymaking, forcing politicians to act against the ‘common good’ or their original publicly declared intentions.

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Government Consulting Policies Benchmarking 88

Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Measuring everything we do is the prime benchmark to our progress and where we might need calibration and adjustment. The post 10 Crucial Business Lessons appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Recognizing what we must stop doing is as critical as knowing what we must be doing. It’s an eye-opening experience.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

Take the following six-question survey to determine and benchmark your likelihood of experiencing gratitude. The Adecco Group. Gratitude involves both the ability to acknowledge the good in your life and feeling a sense of thankfulness. Empathy, kindness, and love are closely related to the virtue of gratitude. References: Adecco.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

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PM Alliance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Internal benchmarking can help reveal inefficiencies and even identify workers who would benefit from additional vendor support or targeted training. Are there skills missing from your project team that would help reduce the time needed to transition tasks between cross-functional groups?

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This generation, along with older and younger age groups, is increasingly drawn to other employment formats: namely freelance work. Benchmarking: When projects require extensive back-office or benchmarking figures, it may make sense to rely on a more traditional consulting firm. The average job tenure in the U.S.

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LSA Global

JULY 30, 2022

When a group of people collaboratively play to their strengths to achieve a common and meaningful goal, amazing things can happen. Then you can create individual development plans to blend their individual strengths so that they function more effectively as a group than individually.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. To understand how this context should influence decision making, The Boston Consulting Group conducted extensive research on family businesses in both developed and emerging markets. Article Thursday, September 08, 2016.

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BCG

OCTOBER 10, 2016

It’s just the type of question that TeBIT, a benchmarking study jointly developed by ETIS–The Community for Telecom Professionals and The Boston Consulting Group, was created to answer. They can also discuss their individual results with the TeBIT benchmarking team. So monetization should flow quickly and abundantly.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. The Hackett Group. Parthenon Group. Applied Value Group. Address: Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Address: Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. BearingPoint.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 25, 2019

This metric is more widely used by the financial institutions group (FIG), investment bankers, or the corporate development teams of banks for precedent transactions analysis. The outperformance of the asset manager versus its benchmark – which can be looked at as alpha generated.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of four hundred companies, has built a large organization on this very principle. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of extraordinarily successful people? Pulling It All Together. Those CEO’s who do not dance think business is only about the bottom-line.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

So, with his permission, come back in time with me … When Rip and I first became partners, he was the chairman of a senior executive networking group that met in Philadelphia. A primary objective of the group was to help members find new jobs or build their own businesses. And the first thing was NOT himself.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

So, with his permission, come back in time with me … When Rip and I first became partners, he was the chairman of a senior executive networking group that met in Philadelphia. A primary objective of the group was to help members find new jobs or build their own businesses. And the first thing was NOT himself.

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Emotional Intelligence Management Meeting Benchmarking 52

Tom Spencer

MARCH 6, 2012

Bremmer highlights the importance of LIBOR by explaining that it is “a key benchmark rate that affects the price of $350 trillion worth of securities and loans around the world.” ” Indeed, the British Banker’s Association notes that LIBOR “is the primary benchmark for short term interest rates globally.

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Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

While originally founded as an independent strategic firm, Archstone Consulting was acquired by leading enterprise benchmarking firm The Hackett Group in 2009. Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of The Hackett Group. Archstone Consulting Locations: 8 countries, 13 cities. Archstone Consulting Chief Executive: Ted A.

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Peter Stark

MAY 13, 2018

But we find that the organizations in our Best of the Best Benchmark are consistently rated higher by their employees than those in our overall benchmark. The leader establishes an environment of trust within and among all the people in the group. So we know it is possible and companies are accomplishing it.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 15, 2021

BCG (Boston Consulting Group) potential test is an online test used in the first round of interviews. This tool compares your math accuracy and speed to other CaseInterview.com members and to my own test results as benchmark. What is the BCG Potential Test and Why is it Used? What is the format of this Test?

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Chad Barr

JUNE 11, 2014

As we were crafting the message and content, it occurred to me that the simple benchmark I use in order to determine the quality and provocativeness of the content is to simply ask myself two questions. appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Is my immediate reaction to the content? “So what?” © Chad Barr 2014.

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BCG

JULY 11, 2016

At industry forums, they have given voice to, and found agreement on, a number of risk management principles and priorities—consensus that was also evident in the results of this year’s Global Asset Management Benchmarking Survey conducted by The Boston Consulting Group.

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MishTalk

MARCH 3, 2014

percent against the dollar today, more than any other currency tracked by Bloomberg, while the benchmark Micex stock index plunged more than 11 percent and benchmark bond yields soared. “So So far, the panic goes on,” Dmitry Dorofeev, a money manager at BCS Financial Group in Moscow, said by e-mail. The ruble sank 1.8

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier. Now think about the stakeholder group on day one and how that group had changed by day 100.

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LSA Global

MAY 29, 2020

Seek out stretch assignments , job rotations, challenging projects, mentors, coaches, peer groups, conferences, experts in your field, networking connections, and training to help get you where you need to go. Then practice, get feedback, and practice some more. Learners cannot master skills without repeated practice and relevant feedback.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2023

Division X productivity is decreasing), methods for solving the problem (e.g., … by benchmarking industry best practices), or proposed solutions (e.g., … by employing more staff). Drivers are things that impact the problem you are trying to solve and can be formulated in four different ways: Engaging in a group exercise (e.g.,

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Fed’s decision to keep benchmark interest rates at record lows for six years has encouraged investors to funnel cash into speculative-grade securities to generate returns, raising concern that risks were being overlooked. And this is a mania.” It is like a Whac-A-Mole game: You don’t know where it is going to pop up next.”

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Energy Marketing Benchmarking Cash Flow 78

CaseInterview.com

APRIL 18, 2019

BCG (Boston Consulting Group) potential test is an online test used in the first round of interviews. This tool compares your math accuracy and speed to other CaseInterview.com members and to my own test results as benchmark. What is the BCG Potential Test and Why is it Used? What is the format of this Test?

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Case Interview Boston Consulting Group Interviews Data 56

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

OPEC took no action to ease a global oil-supply glut, resisting calls from Venezuela that the group needs to stem the rout in prices. The group maintained its collective production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, said yesterday after the 12 nations met in Vienna. in Calgary.

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Productivity Benchmarking Airlines Banking 77

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

Organizational culture defined is "a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems."

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. In addition, you’ll have limited exposure across the company to other groups, departments, etc – less ability to network across the company. Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

The diversity of local accounting rules precluded perfect standardization, and the geographic dispersion of the teams made it hard for the transformation group to gather information the way they normally would — in conversation.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Nous Group. The Birchman Group. Nous Group. Founded in 1999 by Tim Orton (ex-McKinsey), Nous Group has grown to be one of Australia’s most influential strategy firms. The Birchman Group. The Birchman Group operates across 7 countries. Tier One – Australian. Pacific Strategy Partners. Accenture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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LSA Global

JUNE 20, 2018

Get together with your new team as a group and also one on one. What benchmarks need to be put in place? Until you have a good sense of how the team interacts and thinks, you could be charging off in the wrong strategic direction or in a direction that is misaligned with the current team or workplace culture. The Bottom Line.

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Benchmarking Analysis Strategy Strategy 42

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Our research for the book The Power of People showed that HR professionals can be broadly categorized into one of three groups with respect to their current analytical capability: Analytically Savvy — These are HR professionals who are formally trained in analytics techniques and are adept at working with data and interpreting analyses.

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Data Development How To Culture 48

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

One cohort reports 0%–20% year-over-year annual revenue growth rates; the second is a faster-growing group experiencing 20%–200% year-over-year growth. This time, the firm ranked in the top quartile of all companies and handily beat our benchmark. Two distinct sets emerged.

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