Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space. Links: Download my free guide on how to clarify and own your unique position in the crowded consulting and coaching market: [link].

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 2, 2018

The consultant has talent but not much experience. You need to consider the real and perceived value of your services, expertise, and experience, as well as geography and market conditions. Market conditions and competition — Are there a lot of consultants who do what you do? Client’s industry — Who is your target market?

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. There are three main types of business consultants.

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Cheryl Cran

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Change management isn’t new – it has been around for a long time and there are fantastic experts that have guided many leaders and organizations to implement phenomenal changes. Experts including John Kotter the guru on change have provided ideas and strategies for companies to manage change in a successful way.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The same can be said about companies that ramp up their workforce planning and talent development. Digital marketing . Culture and Change: The Basis for Transformation .

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Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

By “agency” I mean a company that matches independent consultants with client projects, like a talent agency. He thinks most change management consultants there are paid about $100 hourly. How do they go to market? For example, PwC Talent Exchange or Deloitte Open Talent. How do they describe themselves?

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2022

In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. Organizational agility requires the motivation to scan the external environment and the skills to shift corresponding strategies, cultures, and talent.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. Here are some excerpts from their résumés and profiles: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARIES Organizational change expert with 16 years of experience in large-scale technology implementations for the Fortune 500. Let’s look at some examples.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. RingCentral data suggests that the professional services market — overall — is growing at a CAGR of 9.1% — and stands to hit the $8B mark by the end of this year.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2024

Yet, the traditional approach to strategy typically assumes modest shifts in markets, competitors, partners, strategies, cultures, and talent. If executive teams want to craft a winning strategy , they should consider best practices for strategic planning during uncertainty. But we all know that things change.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

Some of the many ways different business functions could begin utilizing generative AI in the workplace now are: Marketing and sales functions - writing sales copy and creating product user guides. One way to rise above the talent challenge is with workforce planning.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Today, digital competitors are using new business models to win, attracting and retaining consumers by reimagining products and services to meet consumers’ changing needs. Market leadership requires companies to create distinctive insight about the consumers they serve, insight drawn from data that only consumers themselves can provide.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2022

After a couple of decades of working in talent management, I get it. Humor can be considered a social skill, emotion, cognitive ability, interpersonal communication behavior, behavioral response, habit, perspective about life, or coping strategy. The Journal of Services Marketing. Good humor is a part of a good life.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 18, 2019

The General Management Consulting practice most resembles that of a traditional strategy consulting experience. Unlike the major strategy consulting firms, however, Oliver Wyman consultants tend to specialize into a given practice area earlier in their career. 3) The Delta practice focuses on change management initiatives.

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LSA Global

APRIL 17, 2018

Our high performance research identified complacency as one of the top five strategy execution warning signs. Leaders today cannot afford to get caught flat-footed or miss important market windows of opportunity. Target markets. Talent management. Market shifts. Do You Need to Create Strategic Urgency?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

A couple of the biggest challenges leaders will continue to face in the future are retaining top talent and creating inclusive workplaces that bring out the best in all employees. Cognitive and predictive analytics go one step further, allowing organizations to transform during market changes quickly. References Acemoglu, D., &

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. Culture is acutely critical during notable changes, such as M&As, which offer an opportunity for a renewed start on culture.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2023

No matter if you find yourself resisting or embracing change in the workplace, more is coming. Disruptive innovation, increased global competition, and evolving market pressures are converging. A study involving over 400 executives from 48 companies connected strategy and innovation performance directly with good leadership habits.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership. They confidently seize opportunities.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. “Personal experience makes me a more effective marketer.” This approach helped Connected Home’s Hive “smart thermostat” device become a market leader in just a few years.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. They: Share a compelling, clear purpose: Purpose is the guardrail for actions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. What builds management perspectives? billion sales in India.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static. Tronc, with storied brands and no shortage of talent, already has the capabilities it needs, but those skill sets need to be broadened and deepened. Publishing is a talent-driven business. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

So as you navigate your own digital transformation, we recommend beginning with a few questions that go deeper than “what talent do you need” or “how much money will you spend” and probe broader organizational readiness. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. No strategy is static. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 The biggest challenges are people and processes.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

“Urgency” suddenly becomes a value when time to market cycles are industry lagging and pressure from the Board is mounting. True cultural norms drive results, are shaped by strategy, and engender strong communal pride. Culture, in such companies, becomes a competitive advantage and attracts top talent.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company’s helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she’d been spearheading across the bank. “He hates change.” “He hates change.” “The market research from Capital is promising.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Instead, change is part of their broader operational paradigm. Organizations can capitalize on opportunities, adapt to market shifts, embrace emerging technologies, and take other steps that keep them ahead of the competition by being open to change. However, while change is powerful, it also creates challenges.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In this episode, we are discussing the importance of maintaining a long-term strategy and vision for your marketing and networking. Listen to the podcast here: Long-term strategies in marketing and networking offer the greatest rewards for the most successful consultants. I’m delighted to have her join me today.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. .” But those symptoms stem from fundamental problems.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The conference will cover a range of topics – emerging technologies, diversity, soft skills development, inspiration for project managers, and more. who are interested in applied research on project management and project-based organizations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

The UK will exit the European Union on March 29, 2019, and many companies are struggling to prepare for how it will change doing business there. Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. The company should look to bring in staff from other markets to apply their skill sets and ideas.

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2018

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Interestingly, KPMG is the only one of the Big 4 that has not yet acquired a boutique strategy firm. Keep your eyes open, though – deal talks are rumored.

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Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

During a school play in Belgrove Junior school in Clontarf, the most talented kids got the lead parts (Ugly Sisters etc.). My kid was in the chorus line (reflecting the general talent level in our family). We all have talent — in case you don’t know”! and 90%+ will tell you ‘Advertising’, ‘Marketing’ & ‘R&D’.

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