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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Why are Case Studies used? Note that they are not looking for a “right answer”; they are looking for a “right method” Types of case studies. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below). How to answer the case study.

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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. Could we rent instead?’”

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. Consider GM as a case study. A global IBM study found that 33% of CEOs had engineering degrees and another 15% had finance degrees. Customer loyalty comes from an exemplary customer experience.

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Deep Dive into Customer Segmentation (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

To understand the target customers on this level, methods such as focus groups, surveys, interviews, and case studies can be successful. Another example could be where one segment may be very sensitive to price and always buy merchandise on sale, whereas the other may value time over savings and typically pay full price.

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4 Ways to Develop Practical Business Understanding for Consulting

Management Consulted

Many history, English, and art majors, engineers, and law students – all of interest to consulting firms, but lacking in business basics – come to us asking how they can develop their business understanding to prepare for consulting interviews. The 2 Smartest Case Study Techniques. Other MC Posts.

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Making Kindness a Core Tenet of Your Company

Harvard Business

Consider one instructive case study. I recently immersed myself in the customer-service transformation of Mercedes-Benz USA , the sales-and-service arm of the German automaker. There was one dealer who’d closed a sale and noticed from the documents that it was the customer’s birthday.

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Why you’re not getting any clients from your consulting website

Tsavo Neal

Now we can work backwards from that number — and reverse engineer your success. But, not all sales conversations lead to project work. prospects turn into a paying client — or a 20% sales call conversion rate. EX: $200,000. In our example, let’s say you want to earn $200,000 per year from your consulting business.