The Source

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Every year we survey thousands of clients, asking them to tell us about the world’s leading consulting firms. In the last few years, the likes of IBM Services and Accenture have topped the ranking when we ask clients about the quality of work delivered. In part, it’s because when digital transformation hit the business world like an almighty tsunami, clients were desperate for consultants with proven technology experience to solve issues ranging from strategy to operational improvement to risk.

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David A Fields

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

If your consulting firm’s plate is overflowing with client work, you’re probably hustling long hours and stressing over deliverables, capacity and quality. On the other hand, if your consulting firm’s workload has dipped, you’re fretting over the new business pipeline and combatting fears about cash flow, expenses, and the effects of a recession. Either way, … Continued.

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Rod Burkert

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I hope you found our last conversation inspires you to fight industry disruption … to dig in … to strike out on your own if an Accounting/BV firm merger does not suit you … to fight the likes of big data valuation solutions. And do this by finding a niche and becoming so damn good at/in it that you can’t be ignored. On to this week. A diagrammatical follow-up to niching and specialization and a tale of two BVFLS practitioners.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the consulting business, nothing gets people to connect with you more than telling your stories. Yuri Kruman of Master The Talk Consulting leveraged his talent for storytelling to do that. In this episode, Yuri shares how he got into building his consulting business, taking us into his transition from the startup world. He talks about doing. Writing For Publications To Get Consulting Clients with Yuri Kruman: Podcast #106 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Often, it is difficult to convince employees to prioritize their learning. Many professionals have hectic schedules and are striving for work-life balance. Couple that with eLearning courses that aren’t engaging, overly relevant, or user- and mobile-friendly, and it shouldn’t be surprising that they aren’t focused on learning. The post A Learning Culture Can Be Contagious appeared first on Clarity Consultants - Training Development.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

These are a few tips and tricks that I’ve picked up from my own personal experience as well as anecdotes for consultants a few years out. There are a lot of things to note when first starting your career, but these are the most broadly applicable. 1. Be open-minded. While not all consulting firms are structured like this, some have talent managers or staffers that put you on projects.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Gig economy 2020 The new revolution. Workplaces are evolving and that’s a fact! But they are doing it at a faster and faster pace each year. Not even the C-Suite that lives on the fringe of technology couldn’t anticipate the growth of the Gig Economy in the last 5 years. Rabbit, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber, Rover, Postmates, DoorDash, companies that brought innovation into the world of the gig economy, are now facing new challenges that will push the work market even more into the future.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Have you already created a strategic plan? Were you able to execute it successfully? Let me share one of the great challenges you are going to face as you create and execute one.

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Alan Weiss

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

If you’re writing articles without real-world, contemporary examples to which the reader can relate, you’re merely writing conceptual pieces which aren’t going to persuade prospects. Think of all those awful college professors who merely read their notes and pontificated. You were obligated to take their classes, and you were paying them.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Do you have trouble fitting “all” of the necessary work into an iteration? Your managers might want to push you to do more. Or, the product owner thinks you can do more. Or, the team wants to do more (see Beating a Team's Goal.). Agile approaches are not about doing more. Agile approaches encourage us to do the least we need to do, to the best of our abilities, to get feedback, so we can do it again.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Imposter syndrome occurs when the skills required for your job exceed your inaccurate self-perception of your abilities and worthiness of the job. You know you suffer imposter syndrome when you feel like you aren’t good enough to keep the job you have or are constantly worried you’re going to lose it. Imposter syndrome occurs when competently skilled people have a damaged sense of self-worth and self-esteem.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Strategic Insights Gathering. On October 15th from 3:00-5:00 pm in Portland, Oregon, SME Strategy Managing Partner Anthony Taylor and Cascade Strategy North America CEO Carl Cox will be hosting a thoroughly interactive and thought provoking strategic planning event.

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Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As most of you know, I believe that a powerful image speaks a thousand words. I therefore love creating transformation visuals® to communicate such messages. I wrote the article Have You SMACKED Your Clients Lately? Back in 2012 to help our clients create more powerful podcasts. I communicated these concepts through the acronym SMACKED. Here is what it stands for: Smile while you talk, which will make the podcasts fun and demonstrate that you are enjoying it as well.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Imagine you’re in a kayak paddling down a river. It’s a beautiful day and you’re feeling great. But then, up ahead, you see a fork in the river. To the right, the river is flowing smoothly; to the left, you see rapids and rocks. So, which way do you steer your kayak? If you weren’t seeking the excitement and danger of the rapids, you’d take the right fork and continue on your pleasant journey, wouldn’t you?

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In the world of project management, there exists a useful concept knows as the “critical path” for a project. A critical path is that part of the project which has the fewest available resources that also has the most downstream dependencies. In other words, it’s the step in the project that prevents many other later steps in the project to be started.

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The Source

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Along with terrible haircuts, padded shoulders, and beige, French post-structuralist critical theory was really big in the 1980s. Much of what was written about it (post-structuralism, not the 1980s or beige) was so impenetrable that you could win serious kudos for having managed to read a chapter of Jacques Derrida without having a nervous breakdown.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less stuff to do so. Thanks to new technologies, many advanced economies are reducing their use of timber, metals, fertilizer, and other resources. McAfee says this dematerialization trend is spreading to other parts of the globe.

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This White Paper targets opportunities for Management to develop proficiency in the Decision Framing and Analyses element of input to Decision, & Risk Analyses for Major Project Funding Decisions.

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Simon Associates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

On September 12, 2019, The New York Times published a special section on “Retirement.” One article that really reverberated for me was titled: “ My Work Life Is Over. What’s Next? ” The author states, “Many retirees do not have a plan” for after retirement. For some with health issues, retirement is necessary, but what about those who are healthy? Are they worn out after doing the same thing year after year and are glad to stop, or does their retirement date just appear on their calendar?

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Consultants' Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Consultants Consultant: Data analytics is the new black. If you’re not a data analyst or data. The post HR Analytics Tools appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Kai Davis

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Send more follow-up emails. You’ll make more money. Sending follow-up emails is the most critical skill you’ll learn in life and business. How vital could your message be if you aren’t willing to follow-up? Following-up on a conversation, project, or email is not rude. Follow-up is a polite, proactive action that demonstrates confidence, authority, and experience.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Children’s Hospital & Clinics COO Julie Morath sets out to change the culture there by instituting a policy of blameless reporting, which encourages employees to report anything that goes wrong or seems substandard without fear of reprisal for the act of reporting. Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson discusses getting an organization into the “High Performance Zone” by creating an environment of psychological safety and high accountability.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I often get emails from readers who have received multiple offers. In this article, I will share some these stories with you and address some common questions that come along with receiving multiple offers. Success Story: I interviewed with both McKinsey and BCG today and they both made me offers, despite me telling them I was as likely to pursue graduate studies as I was to take up a job with them.

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Consulthon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Hello all, Recently i've joined a new team where I analyse the processes. The team has 15 team members, very friendly, helping each other, but the organisation of work is poorly structured. I have.

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Management Consulting Prep

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

What is management consulting? The ranking of the top world consulting firms in the top three positions has rarely changed since the first time the list was compiled. Whether the list makers consider in terms of reputation, seniority or remuneration, MBB (stands for Mckinsey, BCG and Bain) are always come to first. Determining the best … Big Three Consulting Firm Read More » The post Big Three Consulting Firm appeared first on Management Consulting Prep.

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Management and IT Consulting

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Learn how industry-focused reporting and BI delivers the critical ability to provide your firm’s leaders with a complete picture of engagement and business health, and the right foresight to enable well-informed, real-time decision-making.

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