Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 13, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the role of business consultants has evolved into an essential force that drives growth, innovation, and strategic success. Let’s explore the core advantages of enlisting the expertise of business consultants, supported by compelling statistics and facts.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 24, 2023

Whether it’s streamlining operations, optimizing strategies, or catalyzing innovation, the pursuit of progress is central to an organization’s success. Enter business consultants—a force that brings unparalleled expertise, fresh perspectives, and a strategic mindset to the table. See more below here.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Marketing consulting services have emerged as invaluable partners, offering a wealth of expertise, insights, and specialized solutions to enhance marketing and advertising efforts across companies of all sizes. Transforming marketing excellence with expert assistance through marketing consulting services.

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Jerry Fletcher

MAY 8, 2021

where you sit down with a prospect and learn about her/his operation and get to ask questions from which you will develop a proposal. Now that you know what would satisfy the primary concern you can probe for data that will help you move from memorable to unforgettable. Meeting name. Put yourself in the position of the prospect.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As our project management consultants help clients work through their high-visibility and high-risk initiatives, we know that sponsor backing is particularly important when a project requires significant allocations of funds or personnel. Be prepared with budget details and project status data in case additional justifications are requested.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We have developed a methodology that helps organizations move from strategy through execution and realize success. Andy Frawley was first introduced to actionable strategy and the Brimstone methodology when he was CEO of Epsilon. Lack of ownership and accountability. Measures of success are not defined or communicated.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2023

Resistance to change can stifle innovation, siloed decision-making can inhibit collaboration, an overemphasis on compliance can prevent creativity, and relying on intuition rather than data-driven insights can result in blinkered decision-making and missed opportunities.

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

And because most system implementations are more than just IT projects, bringing numerous operational considerations and workflow changes as part of the equation, project teams sometimes struggle to bring a diverse group of stakeholders into alignment. Growth plans may also change what executives believe is most important in the near term.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Businesses are increasingly turning to more powerful technologies to optimize their operations and deliver new innovations, but these large-scale projects can be unwieldy and disruptive if they aren’t coordinated and managed properly. A tendency toward smaller IT teams creates potential risks.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

This article will look into the consulting industries current pitfalls and future in terms of transparency and digitalization. Interviews have been conducted with clients and consultants in order to give a realistic and broad outlook. Secondly, our established and experienced freelance consultant, who prefers to be kept anonymous.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Insight Center.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? A comprehensive site report that’s carefully structured with highly relevant data will be useful in keeping the organization’s senior leadership team apprised of the latest developments.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week we held an MC exclusive subscriber giveaway contest – entrants told us in 200 words or less how they became interested in consulting. The prize for best answer was a FREE Consulting Case Bank and The Consulting Bible 3rd edition – a HUGE giveaway – so we weren’t surprised when we heard from so many of you.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

As a prospective consultant, one of the things that can seem the most mysterious in the case study prep process is wondering what the interviewer is going to ask you next. It may test an industry or practice area focus, like technology, operations, or finance. The 8 Elements of Consulting Case Anatomy. We have good news for you!

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PM Alliance

APRIL 29, 2022

Our project management consultants have helped numerous enterprises define their ERP initiatives, and even companies with experienced internal project teams often struggle to scope these high-impact, high-risk efforts. If you’re having trouble completing that step, consider these 3 tips to help you on your way.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. Posted by Consultant Ninja. Labels: Analysis , Consulting.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Critical, Bob Weiler, Managing Founder of Brimstone Consulting, points out, is also looking at and understanding not only your competitors but also your suppliers and vendors. Andy was first introduced to agile strategy and the Brimstone methodology when he was CEO of Epsilon. The shift to agile strategy transforms the organization.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Headquarters: Chicago, IL Employees: 3,200 Locations: 58 offices, 40 countries Chief Executive: Johan Aurik, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board Revenue: $1B Consulting Engagement Cost: $400K. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. The powerful thing about the Brimstone methodology ,” shares Andy, “is that it’s designed to be executed quickly and have the strategies be executed quickly. Build Agility.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Critical, Bob Weiler, Managing Founder of Brimstone Consulting, points out, is also looking at and understanding not only your competitors but also your suppliers and vendors. Andy was first introduced to agile strategy and the Brimstone methodology when he was CEO of Epsilon. The shift to agile strategy transforms the organization.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This blog post outlines a simple 5-step methodology to improve any process. Analyze the existing processes There is an unlimited number of more complex and sophisticated analysis methodologies. Also, pay attention to the seven types of wasteful behavior from the lean methodology. And works well for remote teams!

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Management Consulted

JUNE 12, 2016

A household name in the consulting world, Ernst & Young (EY) has gone through some dramatic changes in the past few years. With 27 offices worldwide, Parthenon-EY is still a new venture, although it is has gained decent market share in the 2 years it has been operational. Practice Areas. Consumer Products. Financial Services.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% Despite these strictures, the Brazilian operations of McDonald’s and Carrefour reaped similar types of benefits as the slaughterhouses — $12.5 of revenues). million (0.01% to 0.6%

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But as we have observed in our research, consulting work, and partnerships with dozens of Fortune 500 companies and top professional services firms, the transition to new and different ways of managing talent is often filled with challenges and unexpected hurdles.

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PM Alliance

MAY 19, 2023

Given the level of disruption even a small office move can have on operations, it’s not surprising that project teams get a lot of questions during the planning and execution phases. Data to demonstrate the logic behind your schedule. Data to support desk assignment decisions. Data to defend your budget requests.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

Interview Transcript: Betsy Jordyn : Hey, it’s Betsy Jordyn of the Consultant’s Institute, and I’m so excited to interview Charles Browne. I’m not a strict operator. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity. And our topic today is really focusing on those product companies.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 30, 2023

Developing the capabilities to achieve consistent success across every project—whether it’s small and routine or big and complex—is the key to operational and financial sustainability. 3: Centralize your project data. 4: Provide training based on a single, shared methodology. 5: Focus on stakeholder and end user satisfaction.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Second, even if you get the sources right, the state of data collection on farms is mostly nascent. Companies will need much better data at the farm level, expanded industry-wide research and best practice collaborations, and some investment funds to spread technologies. And they both have multi-faceted plans to get there.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 3, 2022

The concept of a project management office was defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge [2] : it’s a department that establishes standards for processes related to managing projects and approves corresponding methodologies, techniques, and tools. Establishing project management methodology, standards, and best practices.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit. Editor’s note: Every ranking or index is just one way to analyze and compare companies or places, based on a specific methodology and data set.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

You can look at the role of a consultant as someone who simply provides solutions to enhance leadership and business results. The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place. So let's get started.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

For Z and S, the conference launched opportunities to consult on the many client projects that came their way. The firm is a strong niche player, distinguished in its speciality of sales and marketing consulting. Below are the rankings by Vault for ZS Associates in 2015: #5 Health Care Consulting. #16 16 Retail Consulting. #27

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The event will allow project managers to earn PDUs, learn from expert speakers during the educational sessions, acquire new skills, master new technologies and methodologies, and network with peers. The conference attendees will learn the insights from the latest PMO research, and learn about new PMO ideas, methodologies, and products.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Statistics – the interpretation of data according to scientific method – is a robust discipline of its own, but more importantly, contributes heavily to almost all quantitative enquiry in any field. In theory, this includes consulting. The most simple type of statistics are descriptors about a set of data: means, medians, ranges.

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PM Alliance

JUNE 17, 2022

You can then demonstrate the urgency of the request by showing the likely effects on operations if the opening isn’t filled. This could include data on overtime to cover tasks with existing personnel, expenditures to retain contractors with critical niche credentials, delays in workflow completion, etc.

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