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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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Forrester CX conference recap: Digital-first falls flat, virtual employees cultivate culture

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This year’s Forrester CX conference served as a backdrop for a deeper look at Forrester’s CX Index for 2022 , which revealed that CX quality dropped for nearly 20% of brands, the highest proportion of brands to fall in one year since the survey began. And belonging is an important metric for [culture and] performance.”.

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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.

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Why Technology Matters

BCG

Once a technology is ubiquitous and available to all—neither scarce nor proprietary—it no longer confers a lasting competitive advantage. In this series of articles, we challenge the conventional wisdom that the powerful effects of technology aren’t visible in economic metrics.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

(Scope 2) but have paid less attention to “indirect emissions resulting from value chain activities” (Scope 3) , that is emissions that occur outside the direct organization, for example in the supply chain, at business partners, or from end-users of their sold products. Companies are increasingly being required to report on Scope 3. .

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

.” But when Mubarik Imam, head of growth and partnerships for WhatsApp, told the company’s extraordinary story to a group of high-level executives and technology experts at a conference in Palo Alto last year, the narrative was conspicuously free of digital breakthroughs or “aha!” ” moments.

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Top 5 Consulting Resume Mistakes by Ph.D’s, Postdocs, and Other Advanced Degree Holders

Management Consulted

Again and again (and again and again and again), we receive 3-4 page long resumes detailing every piece of research and lab work a particular person’s done, lists of every conference they’ve attended, what they had for lunch 3 days ago, and an-in depth review of their favorite physics book. Far from it!

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