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Upgrade your Legacy System without Disrupting your Project-based Organization

Progressus

According to the United States Government Accountability Office , ten of the government’s legacy systems cost approximately $337 million annually to operate and maintain. Or started with ERP and then added Project Management in Phase 2, and CRM in Phase 3. There are many options based on your organization and its needs.

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Selling Your Competitive Advantages in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Any professional sales pitch should be based on reality. For example, you may have a competitive advantage in government change management, but since you are not in the government consulting practice, it is not relevant. The sincere truth. This could be professionally disastrous. Going beyond the cookie cutter.

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Changing Business Practices to Change Culture

LSA Global

What are these change leaders missing in their efforts to change culture and reap the rewards of success? Organizational Culture We define an organization’s culture as the unique combination of the values, beliefs, and attitudes of its workforce as a whole that govern how and why work gets done.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Strategy Consultants: Within management consulting, Strategy Consultants operate at the highest level of the consultancy market, focusing on strategic topics like corporate and organizational strategy, economic policy, government policy and functional strategy. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g.

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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

Business leaders and government authorities around the world are encouraging or mandating their employees to work from home due to the emerging pandemic caused by COVID-19. For Christian, that means setting up key deadlines or how many sales his team wants to make a day. Level 1 is commitment and goals.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Followers and organizations thrive with influential leaders and suffer from ineffective leaders whatever the context: businesses, government, community, education, or faith-based. 18% reported a failure to close a sale. Too often, change processes begin with what is wrong. The leader-follower relationship is everything.

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

government. Car sales in the U.S. Car sales in the U.S. But car sales are now probably past a cyclical peak, not only in the U.S. The tragedy in America is that there is no consensus among leaders in business and government. GM has good immediate reasons for its decisions.