Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In this unique on-air coaching session, you will see how to create your own networking strategy to help you achieve your goals. About the guest: Vern Schellenger is a master networker, career coach, sports junkie, and music lover. Learn more about my Brand Positioning and Messaging strategy services: [link].

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Brimstone Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2023

Your strategy needs to consider current and future sustainability and ESG rules and regulations and market realities. Compliance with rules and regulations at the local, state, federal, and international levels has already begun and will continue to impact corporate strategy. If not, should it?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2023

Opportunities in the Clean Tech Landscape As businesses embrace clean tech, developing capabilities in this domain represents an attractive opportunity for consulting firms to generate strong revenue growth over the coming decade. Consulting firms can support organizations in developing effective green marketing and branding strategies.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of OC&C Strategy Consultants. Known for its incredible family-style and entrepreneurial culture, relaxed work style, and long retention of employees, OC&C competes not only on strategy but also on culture.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 8, 2023

I keep coming back to it because my 2019 trip to Australia symbolizes that thinking when people talk about “getting older and whiter” isn’t necessarily a good long-term strategy for arts and cultural organizations. Cormac Wakeman : MY G came on the podcast to talk about sports business and sports marketing.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

I have worked on and off with Jim since 1999, first as his Organization Development Consultant at Disney and, more recently, as a sounding board when he retired from his 43-year career. Next steps: Buy Jim's new book if you need to develop your Circle of Influence, get in balance, and lean into time-tested leadership guidance.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Last week, I discussed lessons I learned dealing with some of the largest sports’ brands in the world. 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. Understand what the market really thinks of you.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. In fact, the greatest long-term success belongs to companies that enter a market and become leaders about 13 years after these first movers. Problem: lack of clarity around strategy.

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 10, 2014

There would be a lot less bad marketing in the world if executives were forced to read all the ineffective, sometimes downright awful, content their organizations produce. Marketing is supposed to put human needs first by sounding like it was created for humans by humans. Marketers know this. That’s how buzzwords “happen.”

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For instance, many Oxford students participate in the Oxford Strategy Challenge, which is a mini consulting experience that allows students to work in teams to develop solutions and recommendations for a real business or local organisation. In fact, team sports is an often overlooked way of demonstrating teamwork.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. So venture out.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. However, compliance with the strategy doesn’t necessarily correlate directly to performance. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight center.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Does a hospital really need a branding strategy? Consider some of the impacts branding can have: Provides direction for future product development. Serves as the foundation for marketing communications. Understand the Market. Develop Unique Customer Experiences. Attracts high end clinical talent. Review the Brand.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! McKinsey & Company. McKinsey at #4?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

If your customer retention strategy relies on “buying” loyalty with rewards, rebates, or discounts, it is coming at a high cost. That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. /Getty Images. Maslow sought to map the psychological needs of humans and their motivations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Well, we’ve reached the point where Marketing has ruined a good thing once again. We did it to social media, buyer personas, podcasting, marketing automation, Christmas, Easter, and Memorial Day. Today, marketing professional services is much like marketing a SaaS company and demands an effective understanding of how clients buy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy. Amazon will likely continue adding Prime benefits to the mix, potentially including the holy grail of entertainment: live sports. Lore himself described free shipping as table stakes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So how can companies put together the best team possible to execute winning sales strategies and objectives? Make sure that you understand the market in which you’re operating and you really understand those customers, their personas, their buying criteria, and what they are looking for in companies such as yours.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

I was a sounding board to other higher executives about what their strategies may be or how they might sound in a particular presentation at a quarterly review in front of thousands of people. A lot of things that I had done within the time period of managing people; so I was a mentor to people. Dave Saliaris: Yeah.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy. What Is a Sales Playbook? Sales Culture. Sales Talent.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Japan has seemed to be overshadowed by the rise of China and other developing nations,” said Harumi Arima, an independent political analyst. However, history suggests the opposite: Mega-sporting events usually leave the host nation with budget overruns and massive debt, and event-driven investment strategies have rarely succeeded.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

I was a sounding board to other higher executives about what their strategies may be or how they might sound in a particular presentation at a quarterly review in front of thousands of people. A lot of things that I had done within the time period of managing people; so I was a mentor to people. Dave Saliaris: Yeah.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Developing a robust network is critical to your professional success. That’s a challenge I discuss in my new book Entrepreneurial You , and here are four strategies to consider. When I started my marketing strategy consulting business in 2006, I didn’t know the right people – at all. Jackie2k/iStock.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2017

Apple is so great at connectivity, aesthetics, and entertainment that any vehicle they develop will incorporate these as table stakes. With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. The first scenario is to enter cars as a Trojan horse to sell more iPhones.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

And neither of you is anywhere near a sporting goods store. Retailers looking to develop a virtual commerce strategy should consider breaking it down along the following dimensions. Doing so will keep you nimble at meeting consumer needs with a still-developing technology. Your buddy is in Houston.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Society understands the importance of this, which is why primary and high school education can be obtained for free in pretty much all developed countries. You have to start somewhere, and the logical starting point is to acquire knowledge. And in many countries, university is also heavily subsidized. In fact, they can be very expensive.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. Where are the markets with opportunities? But the goal of sustained growth remains elusive.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 11, 2016

In 2013, the New York office was established, providing a home base in one the most important finance and legal markets in the world. The most recent development was opening an office in Toronto to effectively and quickly service The Brattle Group’s cold but lovely Canadian clients. THE BRATTLE GROUP ORGANIZATION.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 20, 2015

Steph: Our work is split across all the centres of excellence: Brand & Commercial Strategy, Pricing & Market Access, Strategy & Portfolio Analysis and Competitive Intelligence. Bonus salaries are competitive with the market. Steph: These don’t have to relate to life sciences, they could be sporting.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The lifecycle of a so-called “data product” mirrors standard product development: identifying the opportunity to solve a core user need, building an initial version, and then evaluating its impact and iterating. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Conventional wisdom suggests that marketers should emphasize the novelty of new products to get people to buy them. Despite the fact that firms spend billions of dollars on developing and marketing new products, these products face persistently high failure rates — often up to 40% to 90%, depending on the product category.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. If you are a sports fan, Washington D.C. – Washington, DC.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 23, 2015

Tesla Motors is an American company that has made waves in the car industry, so much so that General Motors then-Vice Chairman Robert Lutz said in 2007 that this company’s car inspired him to push GM to develop the Chevrolet Volt. . Lastly, make sure you know the market value for the position in which you are applying.

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