ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

Our list of highly recommended books to help you succeed as a consultant. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves. Conquer the Chaos - Clate Mask & Scott Martineau Crush It!

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. He is also the author of the newly released book Engage, Inspire, Lead. You will not want to miss this episode. Jim MacPhee [link].

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 15, 2018

The greatest marketing tool you have is your network — here’s how to make it work for you. This Silicon Valley-based previous electrical engineer with a passion for theater studied at Carnegie Mellon, then started his career in product marketing and sales before becoming a VP General Manager. Never neglect your network!

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Incentives and discounts create tremendous disruption in a company’s business by distorting both incoming market signals and outgoing orders to suppliers.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2019

But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Taiichi Ohno, one of the fathers of the Toyota production system, described three manufacturing evils that companies should avoid: mura (unevenness), muri (overburden), and muda (waste).

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Here's what I see when managers start to create an environment that supports business agility: Recognize when the market changes. Or, recognize when the organization needs to change its market. Or, disrupt themselves before the market changes and makes their business obsolete. Adapt to the changing market.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. Last week , I wrote about how kaizen events can disrupt daily operations and overburden employees. If something is “disruptive,” then it must by definition be good.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

One of the most common problems business leaders face is how to price a product. From entrepreneurs putting a new product on the market to executives at a public company revamping a product line, effective pricing is a key pillar of any successful sales and marketing strategy.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire. There’s a reason we published the book Company Growth by Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense. Supplier’s company.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I did this while attending UChicago and picking up extra cash cleaning industrial carpets, being a production artist for GES Exposition Services during the summer, or working a Blockbuster. I also handled recruitment, payroll, inventory management, and other store operations. They offer an app for Android and iOS.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Chad Barr

MAY 31, 2023

Here are some of my chatGPT prompt examples: Could you channel the expertise and wisdom of marketing gurus: [expert 1], [expert 2], and [expert 3]? Consuming an entire book quickly: I provide chatGPT with the title and author of a book that piques my interest and request a summary to further dive into the book.

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 5, 2021

You’re booked solid. When you’re in feast mode, you’re booked solid and turning away work. This break, sabbatical, walkabout, or vacation is time that you can spend: Working on your own products (e.g., reading books, taking courses, attending trainings, improving operations, making a marketing plan, updating your website).

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

Companies that operate with integrity are more likely to build sustainable business models, which ultimately benefit the company, its employees, society, and the environment. As a result, the value of many of these securities plummeted to zero when the housing market crashed. They also advocate for environmental issues.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. Once you successfully define your space, to me there are two core elements, discipline and market.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. The Ansoff Matrix is particularly useful for strategic planning because it provides a framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2014

revenue, price per unit, units sold, product mix, segment mix, and gross margins) you will be able to discover the source of declining profitability. Revenue can come from various sources including advertising and product sales, but is normally thought of as being a function of price per unit and units sold. Product line.

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The Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The concept of a product has always been a problematic one for consulting firms. As we’ve noted elsewhere on this blog, new consulting products—aka assets—are emerging every day, and not all of them are pretty. It smacks of a standardised, even commoditised, approach that leaves little to a client’s choice and nothing to imagination.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Epicflow Awards and Our Clients’ Achievements Best ERP Solution Epicflow has received another award from Crozdesk – the product review platform experts have recognized Epicflow as one of the best ERP Software Solutions in 2023. This means that for any operation in Epicflow, your business data remains secure on your servers.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

That commitment required a side hustle of some sort, which is when Nicholas turned to the internet marketing world. When he started using Facebook as a major advertising platform for his work, he quickly became one of the most recognized agencies/consulting businesses in the market. But that was just the beginning.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. GM market share fell from 62.6% The book, The Speed of Trust , by Stephen M.R. He entered the building protected by multiple bodyguards.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

All organisations engage in marketing activities: you have to show your customers you have something they want, after all. For top-tier consulting firms, there are two primary marketing efforts – the first, marketing to attract entry-level recruits, is quite visible. BCG once valued the sea, conservatively, at $24 trillion.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

External factors: Sometimes, external factors beyond the team’s control, such as external pressures, changes in market conditions, or unexpected events, can disrupt teamwork and make it difficult for team members to work together effectively. Of course, this is ignorance and not a viable excuse.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Performing market assessments. Core Competencies.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 8, 2020

My work helps clients create surges in market demand and then adapt to sell to and service those new customers. This is the topic of my book Extreme Revenue Growth.). Here in the United States, we had and continue to have a major problem in scaling up the production of coronavirus test kits.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

James Sipe and Don Frick, in their classic book Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership, observe that “A systems-thinking Servant-Leader is adaptable because he or she knows reality is fluid and new issues call for new responses. The company collects customer feedback and, based on that data, launches a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) product.

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Makarios Consulting

APRIL 20, 2022

James Sipe and Don Frick, in their classic book Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership, observe that “A systems-thinking Servant-Leader is adaptable because he or she knows reality is fluid and new issues call for new responses. The company collects customer feedback and, based on that data, launches a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) product.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. In the recent past, partner organizations included Child Care Services, Book Harvest, Safe Haven for Cats, and Benevolence Farm.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As a teenager, Mike Pfotenhauer loved to hike, but he hated how uncomfortable he felt carrying the backpacks then on the market. This story exemplifies one type of empathic design, namely by a user-designer who combines deep knowledge of product use with the ability to foresee new possibilities for it. Laura Lezza/Getty Images.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

Although there are several things, here are 2 key ones: First, you will learn different aspects of the business — everything from product development to sales to customer relations — and have some experience in each area. Size its market. Read books or listen to audiobooks on business and consulting. Evaluate its competitors.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Building a product, selling a service or solving a problem, etc. Examples include Standard operating procedures Processes documentation and policies Standing meetings around defined topics Predefined decision-making logic Forms and workflows Canned responses in customer support Many more. (You Book a call!

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Asamby Consulting

JUNE 23, 2022

A Noly is a person that started a business (or multiple businesses) because of either functional expertise (I am great at marketing), an existing product or service that they found demand for or just a drive to build businesses. Building brands and marketing, or selling, or developing the product or the service.

Company 52

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Your employer operates with the express aim of benefiting members of the community and reinvests all profits to further its social aims. This may allow social enterprises to make significant gains in market share during periods when ‘for profit’ organisations are making cut backs. Rise of Social Enterprise. Who is leading the charge?

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. Book a Call. Want to increase your profitability?

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies which are not externally project driven may use project accounting to track internal projects such as a marketing campaign, or some type of capital improvement. Additionally, the time needed to reconcile spreadsheets to both the GL and project reporting negatively affects productivity which in turn risks profitability.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Shadow functions pop up in the markets and business units when leaders become frustrated with bureaucratic colleagues at the center. Global businesses that are trying to drive scale and agility through integration across markets must share a common design logic that enables consistent connection points that add value. An Example.

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