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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. Your business just launched a new product and needs to market it. Market trends have changed, and you want to make sure the product will reach the correct target customer. How do Consulting Firms Work? Consulting Firm Structure.

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Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey

Business Consulting Agency

Evaluate Your Target Audience and Customer Needs Understand your target audience and their specific needs, preferences, and pain points to develop a comprehensive understanding of how your business can address their challenges and deliver value-driven solutions. Navigating the entrepreneurial journey includes making such decisions.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Customer centricity is defined here as creating unique product value propositions and strategies to deliver against unmet customer needs. You may be asking, isn’t it the role of a Chief Product Officer to create solutions across products? Since inception, they have consistently developed cutting edge, best-in-class products.

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Is Strategy still Relevant to Organization Design?

Kates Kesler

When we asked about strategy during our diagnostic, interviewees were enthusiastic about the $3B revenue goal and the 16% operating margin target. For example, the lack of project prioritization and ineffective allocation of engineering and product development resources resulted in late and over-budget products, which were now in high demand.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units. We worked with a large oil and gas company with operations spread across North America. The first step taken with the client was to define guiding principles for their business operations to help define a design logic. An Example.

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Could Your Business Use an Advisory Board?

IMC USA

Do you need a fresh perspective to help expand your operations? Advisory boards focus on "big picture” issues--such as compensation, market strategy, and succession planning--rather than day-to-day operational difficulties. If retired, outsiders may lack the energy to productively serve your board. Use the Pluses.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.