Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

In this short article, we will delve into five key strategies that can help you become a great product manager. To develop this understanding, product managers actively engage with customers through surveys, interviews, and user testing. Data is a potent tool that can guide product development.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 19, 2023

IIt requires a great strategy to provide a great customer experience to generate leads for your consulting firm. Dave Norton, the visionary founder of Stone Mantel, reveals his insights on customer experience strategy to gain a competitive edge in your consulting business.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 15, 2024

Successful designers understand the importance of working within cross-functional teams of developers, product managers, and other stakeholders. Prototyping should be an iterative process so that designers can gather valuable user feedback early in the development cycle, and thereby rapidly refine and improve designs.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

This article presents a classroom experiment that compared a strategy developed by a team of MBA students in the traditional way with one developed using a virtual AI assistant, which was an interactive tool that linked a tried-and-tested strategy toolkit as a plug-in to the generative AI underlying Chat GPT.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Too often, organizations bring in outside firms to develop their growth strategies — resulting in a smart plan without the motivation, skills, and resources to get it done.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Strategy is arguably one of the most overused words in the English language. Hundreds of professors have dedicated their lives to studying strategy, and consultants are paid fortunes to develop and implement […] The post Strategy Unpacked: More Than Just Plans or Tactics first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

Coaches Don Knagge and Rachelle Stone get to dive into the actual frameworks I used to lead organizations and executives through the executive development process. Don Knagge is currently in the executive development process with a client. Your goal as a coach or consultant is to take strategy and turn it into an operational reality.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I did a Twitter chat with Ken Troupe for his sports business class and there were a lot of questions about strategy, especially how to create an effective strategy. To continue the discussion I was having with Ken and his students, I wanted to offer 5 tips for developing an effective strategy. Strategy is about action.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 4, 2024

But, unlocking the full potential of what is possible requires a talent strategy tightly aligned with your company's data analytics strategy. To avoid falling behind and making costly mistakes, here are two essential talent strategy steps you need to take now. The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030.

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Harmonious Workplaces

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Parallels between shared music-making and OD In the dynamic world of organizational development (OD), business leaders oftentimes find themselves on a continuous quest to find innovative and effective strategies for fostering teamwork, navigating change, and enhancing employee well-being.

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Consulting Success

APRIL 26, 2021

Aga Bajer is the Founder and CEO of a culture strategy firm called Aga Bajer & Associates. How to Develop a Flourishing Network as a Consultant with Aga Bajer #184 is a post from: Consulting Success. He worked with well-known brands like Toyota, Porsche, Citibank, PwC, and many.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JULY 31, 2017

Most consultants I know struggle with business development, and it’s a top concern among those thinking about going independent. “ Most of us never had sales training so this concern is understandable, but reframing how we think about business development can turn concern into action. or “ Oh my god, I’m going to die!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Historically, the challenge with implementing learning and development programs has been the difficulty in quantifying the impacts on organizational performance. The author explains how this approach was applied at a firm in the legal services industry and offers five strategies for implementation.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many leaders would argue that there should be only one strategy for a company, and that strategy provides all the guidance and direction necessary for departments to create implementation plans. However, most high-level strategies have hundreds of ways they can be translated into action.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2022

Developers must avoid falling back on outdated guidelines and keep up with the shifting threshold for accessibility.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Micro-retailers are vitally important to the economies of developing countries and to consumer packaged goods companies. Three strategies can address them. But their full potential is not being realized. The adoption of digital technologies could help change that. But for that to happen, obstacles must be overcome.

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Peter Stark

AUGUST 20, 2023

Sometimes we also incorporate a Relationship Strategies component when we report the results. It will identify their strengths and blind spots of each group so they can build a targeted action plan to develop in these areas by working one-on-one with a coach. Gain a Coach or Executive Advisor Do you need an executive coach or advisor?

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Maximizing state development with business experts. Strategic Economic Development Planning Strategic Vision and Planning : Business consulting agencies assist states in formulating strategic economic development plans, identifying growth opportunities, and establishing long-term objectives for sustainable growth.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2023

All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. The author shares four strategies that Intuit has used to build a culture that reinforces, rather than inhibits, positive leader growth.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this article, we will start to unravel the mysteries surrounding hedge funds, exploring their nature, workings, and the strategies they employ to generate profits. This relative lack of regulation allows hedge fund managers to implement complex investment strategies and respond quickly to market opportunities.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. Business development consultants enable companies to reach their full potential and rescue companies that are struggling to survive. We don’t understand the value and we’re too busy to think about it.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Actionable Strategy Drives Success. Almost 70% of well-formulated strategies fail because of poor execution. While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2023

years in management consulting, I transitioned to a Fortune 50 US company in an internal strategy role. Before outlining the benefits of internal strategy, I want to highlight a few things: I generally enjoyed my time as a consultant and view the firm I left with high regard. Internal strategy isn’t for everyone.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue. Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. Following the assessment, Brimstone began by working with the leadership team to develop a comprehensive strategy. CASE STUDY.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 12, 2019

A prospect told me recently that he wanted to work with me to bring lean/continuous improvement to his company, but first he needed to “integrate it into his Training and Development” plans. If you frame lean/CI as a training and development activity, you won’t get the of buy-in and commitment from staff that you need.

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LSA Global

JULY 27, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a Strategic Facilitation Session for a Talent Development Team facing major disruption.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

That’s where learning and development (L&D) firms come in. A learning and development firm can help create those tools, so you don’t have to stress about finding them yourself. Learning Design Consultants Develop a Curriculum Outlining the Topics From there, learning design consultants develop a curriculum outlining the topics.

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Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I asked Contacts Count President and Networking Guru Vern Schellenger to do an on-air coaching session with me to help me craft my own personal and business networking strategy. The 8 competencies developed by Contacts Count contain skills, behaviors, tools, and strategies you can learn to make networking an Art not an Accident.

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Consulthon

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Hi, Do you have an idea/experience in how to build a Solid Digital Procurement Strategy? Have you developed a procurement strategy for your business? Can you share some simple steps with me?

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