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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.

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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. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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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

What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work? Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. Or “Can you come and speak at my sales meeting?” It’s an ‘eat what you kill’ model.

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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. How many sales do they have to close and in what time period? Step 4: Document assumptions.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Vendors using eBay and Shopify pay listing and sales fees, and consumers pay transaction fees on payment portals like PayPal. Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. Today, financial transactions have considerable costs. Ending Marketing Fraud and Spam.

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How to Consistently Get Consulting Clients.Even if You're Brand New and Just Starting Out

Consulting Matters

While your experience, education and methodology matters, what people buy are your unique strengths and how you personally show up and support them. A proposal is not a legal document – it’s an invitation for a strategic partnership. To ensure your system works and scales: Install metrics for each aspect of the system.