Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Research: Remember this: Market research is a proactive activity built on developing a hypothesis of the market or asking a question that you are looking to answer. Do the associations your brand generate meet the expectations you want? Developing a voice. I have seen some pretty heated settlement meetings though.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Figure 1 : Innovations from NASA will help the US meet its sustainable aviation goals. While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

Challenger safety – This is the last stage when others are able to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. You can use the following questions in a one-to-one meeting or as an anonymous pulse survey with a team. This is the stage where individuals can innovate.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

“Sell higher and call on the C-Suite” is probably the most common refrain in business development, and you can see why. According to a study , executives consider less than one-fifth of the meetings they have with salespeople to be valuable. ” Despite the advantages, however, selling to executives can be challenging.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Maintaining an obsession with the front line—where the company meets the customer—is fundamental to achieving sustainable growth. Most started out as their company’s first salesperson, its first product developer, or both. Oberoi, founder of the Oberoi Group, a leading luxury-hotel company.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

He’s driven to do this, even though logically he knows that even great products usually have some negative feedback, and that the specific negative comments he reads aren’t particularly relevant to how he plans to mainly use the tool. Perfectionists can spend too long working on marginally productive activities before moving on.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

Checking into a hotel for a conference several years ago, I asked the receptionist where I could get some dinner. There was no restaurant in the hotel, I was told; my only options were ordering delivery from a fast-casual chain or a pizza joint. So what can companies do to help their employees develop healthy habits while traveling?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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Confessions of a Consultant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Perhaps a more realistic telling of the tale was that I’d blagged my way into a paying gig (€200) for an afternoon session in the Hollybrook Hotel in Clontarf. But how then do we explain ‘high productivity’ in environments that are typically low engagement? Brian Kennedy (a real musician) would be my sidekick. It’s a win: win.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

Projects, meetings, and commitments can vary week to week, but it’s helpful to have a general sense of the weekly cadence that most supports your work. I work on smaller items throughout the week but when I need to focus on a large project, like a new book proposal, it works best for me to block out a whole afternoon free from meetings.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Employees were invited to a meeting where leadership discussed its mobile business imperative. These types of direct interactions with customers are powerful ways to shift employee mindsets and create the impetus for change, focusing on delivering value that directly meets customer needs. Develop Talent to Develop the Culture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy. The team began by identifying 57 companies that have made substantial progress toward transformation.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 1, 2019

I would love to go, to learn and to meet people. The decisions I make are about my product development and my Costs of Delay. They paid coach airfare and my hotel room for the entire conference because it was a track talk. No hotel reimbursement before or after the two days of the conference.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. It might be those looking to move into a new region, new market, launching new product line. The products and services were developed from there.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. Emma’s first project as a consultant with her employer entailed launching a new product into market, which she worked on for five months.

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

Vertical and horizontal expansion – Existing sharing economy services will expand to capture other parts of the sectors in which they already play through developing a broader range of services both horizontally (e.g. The UK’s 'slice of the pie' could be worth around $15bn (or £9bn) in 2025.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

As an experiment, I invited a few dozen CIBs, 1Y, 2Y to a last-minute, impromptu Q&A session in the lobby of my hotel. I was hoping 5 people would show up, but when close to 30 did, the hotel kicked us out. During this informal “shop talk,” a 1Y from McK asked me how to be more comfortable meeting strangers (e.g.,

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Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 25, 2017

At regular meetings, you notice one of your best project managers sitting in the corner with their arms crossed, refusing to take part in the conversation in any way. He had to train other workers, write reports, and attend meetings when wasn’t on the production line. Mr. Uchino passed away at 4 am at work due to karoshi.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Some were smaller but no less tell-tale: it took me five weeks on an assignment in Singapore to even realize the hotel overlooked a beach! ” In a world of excess doing, we need to develop the capacity to mindfully choose not to do. Perhaps because I love my work and often don’t frame it as “work.”

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 11, 2013

I once admitted to the clients main point of contact that, until that meeting, I had never even heard of the product I was developing requirements for! Once youre gray enough, you can plead ignorance to almost anything and still get the gig! Never mind that I knew it pretty well; I just wanted to see what hed do! consulting. (9).

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. “It’s tribal. .

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Higher Productivity: A recent HBR article found that people working from home completed 13.5% Organising Meetings: It can be tricky to line up all the diaries. Less dry-cleaning bills!

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1 to 1

MAY 7, 2013

Meet the Editors. Some people shared stories about highly personalized hotel experiences. Intuit , this years Gold winner for customer experience excellence, has developed a highly methodical approach to gathering, analyzing, and acting on customer feedback in a variety of ways to improve the customer experience. Weekly Digest.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. But the demand for software developers was high and I was good. The small-c culture in my team (we would call it a product team now) helped me learn a ton. And we finished the product.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I think that the strong dollar is having enormous production on US production and US businesses. It might create, particularly in certain situations, scenarios where maybe a rental project is much better suited to be used as a semi-hotel in an Airbnb situation. Valiant will host a meeting with investors later today.

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