Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

Going to a top notch business school to get an MBA is high on the list for many aspiring consultants, especially those based in or desiring to work in the U.S. But which U.S. MBA programs should you apply to if you want the best inroads to consulting? We’ve all seen top 10 business school lists, and they’re helpful, but we wanted to go one step further to help our readers who specifically want to go into consulting.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 17, 2016

We live in an increasingly digital and technology enabled world, which is increasing the level of competition between organisations. Why is this the case? There are three key reasons. Firstly, technology is helping to lower barriers to entry. It has never been easier to create new goods and services, and get them noticed by your target audience. Whether it be a website, a blog or an iPhone app, the initial startup costs for launching a new project have never been lower.

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BCG

APRIL 18, 2016

Article Monday, April 18, 2016. Corporate IT functions are being hit with a one-two punch. Digital technologies increase the need to adapt ever more quickly to disruptive new applications and services. Those technologies also create rising customer expectations. For B2C companies, disruptive innovators—such as Airbnb, Simple, and Uber Technologies—continuously roll out new models and services, and each one raises the competitive bar.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 18, 2016

Welcome to episode #056 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Daniel Linskey. I recently had the honor of sitting down with Daniel Linksey, former Superintendent in Chief of the Boston Police Department, to record an episode of the Crisis Intelligence Podcast. Dan was the incident commander during the Boston Marathon Bombing. Within this podcast, Dan shares his first-hand experience of what it was like to manage the Boston Marathon Bombing crisis.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 20, 2016

This week’s reflection point: One of my favorite exercises that I conduct with my clients or during my speaking presentations is the creation of amazing content. I ask them the following: What is one of the key challenges your clients are facing? What are three powerful insights you could share with them to overcome this challenge? What is then the action they could take to transform their success or what provocative question could you ask to mobilize them to next action?

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BCG

APRIL 19, 2016

Perspective Tuesday, April 19, 2016. This is an age of techno-utopianism. Topics like big data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence are at the forefront of the CEO agenda, a sign that companies see technology as a potential answer to many or even most of their challenges. We have good reasons to be excited: an explosion of data and advances in analytics have enabled technology to perform well-defined but complex tasks like recommending movies and diagnosing cancer—not only independen

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MishTalk

APRIL 21, 2016

Since 1st quarter of 2014, Uber’s percentage of ground transportation business booked on Certify, the second-largest provider of expense software … Continue reading →

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

When customers need help, they expect companies to offer it quickly and through multiple social media channels — but most companies aren’t set up to do that. Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing.

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Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC

APRIL 19, 2016

This is more of a rant than an observation, but I’m seeing it more and more. This missing skill isn’t generation specific. It cuts across all generations and all industries. Leaders, your writing skills, or lack thereof, are one of the main reasons your teams are frustrated, confused, and disengaged, and why projects take longer and cost more than projected.

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BCG

APRIL 21, 2016

Article Thursday, April 21, 2016. President Obama’s trip to Havana this spring was the first visit from a US president to Cuba in nearly 90 years. It also represented the latest step in a series of measures to improve relations between the two countries. As Cuba has begun to liberalize its economy, US companies have begun to show significant interest—and for good reason.

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Consultants' Consultant

APRIL 16, 2016

Consultants Consultant: If you want some conceptual inspiration, then try these TED talks on starting a business. The post TED on starting a business appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Nobody loves meetings. But they can be especially taxing for people who crave a quieter setting for brainstorming or thinking through issues, or who struggle to have their voices heard in a room full of loud-talkers. How can these folks make sure their ideas are well-represented in team meetings? For some practical advice, we turned to Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and co-founder of The Quiet Leadership Institute , which helps compa

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MishTalk

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2014, Congress passed a law allowing distressed multi-employer plans to reduce benefits for retirees if it would improve the … Continue reading →

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BCG

APRIL 20, 2016

Article Wednesday, April 20, 2016. The US consumer packaged goods industry registered its strongest growth in four years in 2015, and much of the fuel was provided by small and midsize producers of healthy, protein-rich foods and beverages. In fact, our research found that companies such as Quest Nutrition, Fairlife, Bai, Vita Coco, and Sargento Foods—all of which target the market for high-protein foods and beverages and healthy, “mindful” snacks—are among the top performers in the entire indus

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 22, 2016

By Keith Long, Ghostwriter Supreme. In the past 18 months, I have written four nonfiction books, yet their titles and “voice” are not mine; my name doesn’t appear as the author on any of their covers. I am a ghostwriter. The real authors of these books are my clients who have had their story curated by a collaborative process called. ghostwriting. A secret I like to share with my clients is that every book we write together becomes a shared journey whose final destination is revealed only when t

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Tech CEO Marissa Mayer and Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have it tough right now. Activists investors are saying Marissa Mayer should be fired for mismanaging Yahoo, and Hillary Clinton is fending off criticisms for her use of a private email server and for taking large speaking fees from Goldman Sachs. There’s no doubt that both leaders have made mistakes.

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MishTalk

APRIL 21, 2016

In response to recent posts I have have made on Obamacare and housing, reader “Judson” chimed in with some interesting … Continue reading →

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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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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 22, 2016

Not sure if it was their long-term strategy or not but with Amazon entering the bookstore business… Amazon starts selling books, cheap. They destroy Borders, cripple Barnes & Noble, and eliminate the weaker of the independent stores (the strong ones are still very much around). Then they start selling other items, create new (online) industries with companies like Zappos, diapers.com, etc., buy some of those companies, and have big retailers like Wal-Mart on the defensive.

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Consultants' Consultant

APRIL 17, 2016

Consultants Consultant: These links may help you with improving processes. Seven Good Reasons to document what you do (I wrote this!) – email me for a copy of the Quick and Easy Guide to Documenting What you do, which fleshes out those 7. A way to risk-proof any improvement options: The pre-mortem Make it personal: BPR your life (I […]. The post Links for process improvement appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Have you ever worked hard to improve a valuable skill and made real progress, only to have your development go unnoticed by the people who told you that you needed to improve? Perhaps this led you to look for a new job. Or maybe you’re a manager who’s been disappointed by poor performance and concluded that your low-performing employees are simply over-entitled?

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MishTalk

APRIL 20, 2016

United Health will carry through on its threat made last year to dump Obamacare offerings because it is bleeding cash … Continue reading →

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 19, 2016

Last month a friend referred me to a business owner wanting to sell his company. His primary motivation was he’s burned out and the driving force for the burn out is 2015 was not a good year financially. Sales were down from 2014 and expenses were up. His balance sheet is a mess. But this is not the point of the story. The point is he did some reading, probably online, and had his P&L all marked up with notations on all the expenses that “really aren’t expenses but are prof

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Strategy+Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Last year, less than 3 percent of the CEOs hired by the world's largest companies were female, the lowest share since 2011.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

How many times have you walked out of a theoretically important meeting—a leadership offsite, a C-suite pow-wow, a sit-down with the board—thinking, That was a great discussion, but I’m not sure we really accomplished anything ? More often than not, the problem lies not in what did or didn’t happen at the meeting itself. You didn’t get anything done because the goals for the meeting were never firmly established in the first place.

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MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2016

Here is an amusing Gallup Poll as reported by the Wall Street Journal: 57% of Americans Say Their Income Taxes … Continue reading →

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