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Harnessing Expertise and Igniting Growth

Business Consulting Agency

A study by McKinsey revealed that companies that use data-driven customer insights outperform their competitors by 85% in sales growth and more than 25% in gross margin. Return on Investment (ROI) The ROI of working with business consultants is well-documented.

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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. For example, I did a customer assessment for one of my clients, which revealed some horrible feedback about the sales process. A good doctor knows human anatomy.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Document ideas in the document we use for Directional Agreement. Offer your document as a “straw person” and starting point. So be bold with current clients: Use data from assessment and past work to create business case for next phase of work.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

For decades, Sales and Academia remained worlds apart and the business world did fine. But Sales is changing, Academia is out of touch, and this is bad for business and the academy. Sales was traditionally seen as a form of service work, with an emphasis primarily on developing moral character.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

The Operations Manager's is usually not as wide or as deep, focusing on a more specific task, either on methodological or functional level. A potential candidate must have methodological experience, e.g. has set up a process documentation for other companies before. Examples are sales operations or revenue ops.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

As you might know, Motorola eventually dominated the pre-smartphone mobile phone market with close to $10 billion in annual sales. While there were some clever ways to forecast technology adoption, none of the data or methodologies were 100% accurate or reliable. ( But what happens in smaller markets or with smaller clients?