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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. That makes so much sense.

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 5: Write Your Bio

Johanna Rothman

If your conference proposal has a speaking experience field, use that field to explain your expertise, authority, and credibility. These fields help the potential audience realize your session is the one they must attend, out of the entire conference. I want to be the reason people come to a conference. Am I always?

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What / Who Is a Professional Independent Consultant?

Successful Independent Consulting

During an engagement, our activities may include a wide variety of activities – from system analysis and design to coaching executives, technical assistance, and producing intellectual property. Typically, we are not paid for tangible work products but for the total body of work fostering the desired results.

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Are you outsourcing?

Rod Burkert

If you have a group you want to educate and market to or a product or service you want to promote and sell to, webinars are the best way to reach them. On to this week: So I am back from the AICPA FVS Conference in Las Vegas where I spoke about scaling your business model. Here are 7 things you must consider.

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Are all your eggs in one valuation basket?

Rod Burkert

On Monday, May 20, I will be speaking at the NYSSCPA BV Conference. In fact, in all of the years of this conference’s existence, the organizers tell me that my presentation is the first ever to cover a non-technical topic. . – We can deliver BVFLS products using leverage to get more time, money, and freedom.

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Corporation Oxford

Tom Spencer

Britain’s finest educational name … ignores the explosion in online learning and fails dismally to exploit its intellectual property commercially … It lives off past glories, and is doomed to fade unless it reforms vigorously. It will consequently find life much harder in the 21st century. Oxford and Cambridge).

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Consumer Fraud and Product Liability. Intellectual Property. There is a big focus (based on general litigation trends and market sizes) on healthcare/life sciences/pharma, food manufacturing, intellectual property, TMT, and consumer goods. Bankruptcy and Financial Distress Litigation. Corporate Governance.