Consulting Success

JUNE 26, 2017

A man named Kyoji, who had grown up on this island but had spent 40+ years travelling around the world building several international brands and businesses. After checking into my hotel in the city center, I took the elevator down 13 floors to the street. The company developed a solid product and charged a premium for it.

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Rod Burkert

JUNE 20, 2018

I’ve been spreading the gospel about BVFLS practice development since 2013. Five years (10,000 hours) into it, I finally developed my own framework that can be used to close the gap between the practice you have and the practice you want. Let me know if this model resonates and helps with your practice development efforts.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Consultants have the potential to travel with work, network with Fortune 500 executives, earn six figure salaries, develop high-level transferable business skills, and benefit from lucrative exit opportunities. (Source: Flickr ). Consulting is an appealing career choice for many graduates. What’s not to like?

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Management Consulting Hotels Travel 60

Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2016

This is especially true for organisations that have software development skills and who are able to produce new digital products by drawing on their own capabilities. Mix things up – I am currently staying in a hotel in Beijing. One example of a company that seems to have done this quite nicely is Bluesmart.

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Travel Hotels Software Productivity 60

Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

As all of my travels around the world, the experience was enlightening and inspiring. I had to dip my toes in the Persian Gulf – and take a picture with the only 7 star hotel in the world, The Burj Al Arab. I loved the title of the Hotel Al Qasr’s concierge reception. This was one of the views from my hotel room.).

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Media Hotels Healthcare Government 85

Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

An innovation culture supports beliefs and feelings about the importance of innovation, as well as habits that encourage research and development. Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. Culture is the one thing that impacts everything. Hjeltnes, A.,

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 20, 2023

[link] Psychological Safety Myth Buster #3: Build Capacity Like physical endurance and strength can be enhanced with training, your capacity for changing your leadership habits can improve with development. Getting to where you are going I learned an important life lesson on a business trip to Puerto Rico, traveling with a good friend.

Leadership 59

Leadership ROI Survey Hotels 59

Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

Travel is an alluring carrot that attracts many young people towards consulting. However, the novelty of weekly business trips and lonely hotel rooms is likely to wear off quickly unless you stay organised and make the most of the wonderful experience this offers. One risk in consulting is becoming a jack of all trades.

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Consulting Industry Case Interview Culture 88

Management Consulted

JUNE 17, 2015

They sought to create this type of connection experience for people everywhere when they traveled, and the idea for the bigger Airbnb was born. The original site offered short-term living quarters, breakfast and a unique business networking opportunity for attendees who were unable to book a hotel in the saturated market.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Operations Hotels Case Interview Finance 30

Killer Consultant

MAY 1, 2015

I can even remember the first day at that consulting firm, the first night in a hotel room, the first flight on corporate money. Personally, the development has been even greater. Today, when I have to work long hours or when I am travelling, the cost is much higher. The first time I had to fly out to a client site.

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Hotels Consulting Travel Resources 40

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Currently located on 430 Park Avenue, the latest buzz on the street is the new office being built for BCG New York – they are moving from midtown Manhattan to the colossal state-of-the-art Hudson Yards development. Parthenon brings in a new flavor, but actual integration is still a bit up in the air.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

The range of services this office provides includes general strategy, post-merger integration, organizational change, and corporate development. The space makes use of a set-up known as “hoteling,” in which staffers aren’t assigned a designated work space. McKinsey – is notably skewed more private sector. Cool, or not?

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan The Wall Street Journal reports RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes the latest unmanned project: the robot cab. and vehicle technology developer ZMP Inc., But here we are.

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Transportation Journal Travel Operations 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. Need travel information or services? By empowering renters and seekers with relevant data conveniently delivered through the smartphone, Airbnb is disrupting the entire travel industry.

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Construction Airlines Data Travel 33

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 52

MishTalk

JANUARY 20, 2015

For sure, hotel prices in Switzerland rose as much as 40% overnight compared to prices elsewhere. like restaurants, travel and hotels. Furniture chains, travel agencies and fashion companies are among the retailers slashing prices to rope in shoppers. Other travel is up as well. I commented. Shopping Bonanza!

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Banking Travel Hotels Retail 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character. But effective training and development should begin with awareness and shelf space in the curriculum: making sure that sales is a topic in management education worthy of the name. That’s a big topic in its own right.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

If you’re like most people, these priorities slip to the back of your mind while you work on low-importance, time-specific tasks, such as booking a hotel room for a conference, clearing out your email inbox, or writing a monthly newsletter. Something that helps me is travel, especially taking flights alone. So, what can you do?

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Overseas, Japan’s Abe is insisting on a stronger Japan, the US is clearly ignoring China advice on the Dala Lamai and overall the G-20 meeting had the developed world blaming the recent slow-down on the EM. Safe travels, Steen Thanks Steen! Stay an extra day and golf or travel. We will do so again.

Banking 74

Banking Conference Travel Policies 74

Management Consulted

JUNE 5, 2016

If healthcare decision-making processes and drug development get you out of bed in the morning, or if you simply want to learn from someone who successfully navigated the consulting interview process just last year, be ready to pick up some great networking and interview tips for yourself. Anything else on the behavioral side?

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Healthcare Case Interview Consulting Interviews 100

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

How many nights have you spent in a hotel in a city many miles from home? When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. We traveled together. Automatically, you search for channels and movies in your own language.

Culture 28

Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 1, 2019

The decisions I make are about my product development and my Costs of Delay. A conference that required international travel asked me to speak as a track talk about 45 days in advance. They paid coach airfare and my hotel room for the entire conference because it was a track talk. Sometimes, I'm not available. Rant off.).

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Conference Hotels Travel Transportation 69

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

French authorities said Mr Abdeslam had booked rooms in a hotel in the Alfortville suburb of Paris to serve as a safe house for the group ahead of the attacks, together with a flat in the Bobigny area. He had already traveled and returned from Syria. His social media output alone should have flagged him to Belgian authorities.

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Chemicals Travel Report Media 28

Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

When you first start consulting, it can seem like a sort of corporate utopia: interesting work, a new client every few months, access to leaders of industry, great colleagues, endless career development and training, generous dinner budgets, extensive travel, nice hotels, international travel.

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Consulting Travel Case Interview Hotels 74

MishTalk

JANUARY 9, 2014

The "unit of account" function, in particular, gets little development in the textbooks and has generally not carried much weight in the academic literature on the theory of money. Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. We will do so again.

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Video Education Conference Research 77

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. The average U.S. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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Travel Balance Sheet Hotels Airlines 42

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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Hotels Transportation Energy Company 53

Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 7, 2022

Leaders that focus on cultivating an innovation culture and developing innovative leaders outperform their competition. Space travel alone is challenging, but reusing a rocket by landing it on a drone ship takes the complexity to another level. recruiting, rewarding, recognizing, and developing innovation champions.

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Culture Boston Consulting Group Leadership Recruiting 52

Women in Consulting

DECEMBER 25, 2017

A report stated that Japanese employees work longer hours than employees in the US, Britain, and other developed countries. As a way to deal with burnout, the Japanese government encourages people to leave work at 3 pm every last Friday of the month to spend time with their friends and family, go shopping, or travel.

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How To Training Training Automotive 90

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! Consultantese. (8).

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Consulting Hotels Airlines Sports 55

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 24, 2013

While I cannot tell the difference between Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Coke with Splenda, I have a developed a customized artificial neural network to discriminate between Lindsay Lohan, Hillary Duff, and Brittany Murphy (who are otherwise indistinguishable). Consultantese. (8). Consultants who are easily offended. (12). consulting. (9).

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

MARCH 23, 2009

Worse would be if you had developed the proposal whilst billing time to the client - but that would be just plain unethical right? :) [link]. Well, I actually think law firms are slightly more egregious - they will charge you for the printing they do themselves including a healthy markup. March 23, 2009 at 9:41 PM. The ANALyst. consulting. (9).

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2014

Developed countries, including the U.S., are past their prime compared with developing countries: it is indeed a new world order. Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. Education and training are the keys to increasing wealth on a sustainable basis and the U.S.

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Conference Government Education Marketing 69

Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2018

UBER and Air-BNB are the companies who have perfected this model and have radically democratized the taxi and hotel industries, tapping into un-utilized excess capacities and ultimately making the economic system more efficient. Success of crowdsourcing as a business model. Image: Pexels.

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Consulting Talent Enterprise Industry 84

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

In 2003 a doctor with SARS unknowingly infected several guests while staying at a Hong Kong hotel, and overnight the virus reached across the globe. Pandemics now occur with greater frequency, due to factors such as climate change, urbanization, and international travel. Faster Vaccine Development. State Department and U.S.

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Engineering System Research Fashion 53

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Robert Peston travels to China to investigate how this mighty economic giant could actually be in serious trouble. Stay an extra day and golf or travel. The conference hotel is a fun place in and of itself. First consider the BBC report How China Fooled the World by Robert Peston. We will do so again.

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