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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Doubling a $400,000 Revenue Model With Business Trainer Blair Enns: Podcast #22

Consulting Success

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. With productized, you do it the other way around. I realized that’s how it should be done.

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From STEM PhD to Federal Consulting: An Interview with Josh

Management Consulted

Most of my career has been managing teams of scientists, financial and risk analysts, and contracting specialists who work side by side with DoD personnel in their mission of medical product development for our service members. When was the ah-hah moment – when you realized what a great gig government consulting is?

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Moving from economic consulting to a more broad-based focus may be a bit tricky, as you have superior experience in one particular facet, but minimal experience in others – and no experience in actual operational changes that are the bread and butter of most major consulting firms.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business

During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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Changing Company Culture Requires a Movement, Not a Mandate

Harvard Business

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study. Product packaging was redesigned to be more user-friendly and increase adherence.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Collectively, the D5 nations serve two important purposes for our project: They give us a way to construct a global benchmark that can be used to assess D5 nations and other countries, and they each offer a case study and model for what smart can look like. The outcomes of this exercise are shown in the exhibits below.