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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

It's going beyond what is documented on the org chart and approaching your consultant similarly to a doctor's approach to a patient. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. A good doctor knows human anatomy. Political savvy.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently.

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.)

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. In short, too many firms used conventional planning to manage their new ventures. What Is Discovery Driven-Planning?

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

Now, it was about revenues and profits and leading and managing. You’re a managing partner and owner now at Navalent. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work? When that firm sold itself to a larger firm, the game changed. It’s an ‘eat what you kill’ model.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Blockchain’s properties — transparency, immutability, and security — make it reliable and trustworthy for applications such as supply chain management, smart contracts, financial reporting, the Internet of Things, the management of private (e.g.,