David A Fields
MARCH 23, 2016
The benefits of thought leadership for consultants are well established. More inquiries from more clients, less competition and higher premiums on your projects. Plus, you’re invited to speak at conferences, write articles for prominent magazines and pose for your effigy to be carved into mountains. All of which lead to even more client inquiries. It’s a good thing.
BCG
MARCH 22, 2016
Focus Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Digital technologies continue to rapidly reshape the business landscape. (See the appendix, “Technology Trends to Monitor.”) A striking feature of this ongoing transformation is that, despite these technologies’ underlying technical complexity, a significant share of many companies’ digital campaigns is being driven largely by the business function, with only limited conceptual involvement by the corporate IT department.
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Tom Spencer
MARCH 20, 2016
Not enough, or more than you need. It’s generally one, or the other. Are you working for the money, with grand plans for what you will do when you one day finally have “enough”? Or are you just happy to be here, every day, because you can’t believe they are paying you to do what you’d happily do for free? Are you waiting until you have the money you think you need, before you start living the life you want?
Melissa Agnes
MARCH 21, 2016
photo credit: ra2studio/shutterstock. A LinkedIn connection of mine recently wrote me an interesting message. He began the message with the sentence: “Why CRISIS is a bad word,” and followed it up with the following wordplay – People: C reate their problems; R eact by blaming others; I nfer that all will be okay; S ecure themselves behind false claims; I ndependent they become instead of working as a collective; and.
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Women in Consulting
MARCH 23, 2016
By: Ayelet Baron. If you have been engaging with my thinking on building thriving 21st century organizations, you will know that this is the best time to be alive as we live in an open and connected world. If this is our first encounter, I look forward to connecting and learning from your thinking. That is what is so exciting about our century: our ability to find the right people at the right time to have conversations and co-create.
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Chad Barr
MARCH 23, 2016
This week’s reflection point: Years ago, after submitting a proposal to one of our prospective clients, he notified me that they had elected to go with one of our competitors. I followed up several months later and discovered that they had a dreadful experience, that opened the door for us to engage in conversations again. He did eventually become a client of ours and in a subsequent conversation I asked him what was the reason he originally selected our competitor. “Please don’t thi
Strategy+Business
MARCH 21, 2016
Adina Sterling, an assistant professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, talks to s+b about her research on social networks. She has found some clear benefits for both employees and companies, but also some dangers in relying on such networks too heavily.
Women in Consulting
MARCH 23, 2016
By: Ayelet Baron. If you have been engaging with my thinking on building thriving 21st century organizations, you will know that this is the best time to be alive as we live in an open and connected world. If this is our first encounter, I look forward to connecting and learning from your thinking. That is what is so exciting about our century: our ability to find the right people at the right time to have conversations and co-create.
BCG
MARCH 22, 2016
Video Tuesday, March 22, 2016. The MIT Media Lab encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas. Today, faculty members, research staff, and students at the Lab work in 24 research groups on more than 350 projects that range from digital approaches for treating neurological disorders, to advanced imaging technologies that can “see around a corner,” to the world’s first “smart” ankle-foot prosthesis.
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Consultants' Consultant
MARCH 20, 2016
Consultants Consultant: There’s a Russian anecdote about a man who loved his dog so much that when the vet told him he needed to cut the dog’s tail off he couldn’t do it all at once, so he did it an inch at a time. Don’t be that kind of manager.” An invaluable lesson from My Management Lessons […]. The post Don’t cut off your dog’s tail 1 inch at a time appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 20, 2016
A recent study reveals that of the 150 disasters with the largest gap between the cost of the disaster and the state financial capacity to respond, 87 percent occurred in medium- and high-income countries. Who is filling that gap? More and more, the answer is businesses. The data shows a convergence among unmet high social recovery costs in many developed countries after a disaster; companies' strategic decisions regarding aid; and the effectiveness and speed of aid delivery.
Women in Consulting
MARCH 23, 2016
By: Ayelet Baron. If you have been engaging with my thinking on building thriving 21st century organizations, you will know that this is the best time to be alive as we live in an open and connected world. If this is our first encounter, I look forward to connecting and learning from your thinking. That is what is so exciting about our century: our ability to find the right people at the right time to have conversations and co-create.
BCG
MARCH 22, 2016
Report Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Vietnam's success over the past two decades is undeniable. The country has moved from a largely agrarian economy to one powered by manufacturing. Food is more plentiful, health care more accessible, schooling more affordable, and disposable incomes higher than ever. But the country faces significant challenges, some of which stem from its rapid progress.
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Consultants' Consultant
MARCH 20, 2016
Consultants Consultant: You know I love to improvise. Here’s some neuroscience about it. When your brain becomes ‘quieter’, remarkable things can happen. It’s time to go with the flow Making it up as you go along: how your brain improvises . The post Quieten your brain with improv appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Strategy+Business
MARCH 22, 2016
In his new book, Douglas Rushkoff reacts to rising inequality and the threat of automation by proposing a new social operating system that distributes wealth more equitably.
MishTalk
MARCH 20, 2016
I announced on February 22 Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com. My needs outgrew blogger. The top reason is that I wanted a multi-page layout, with a different home page than the detail pages. Most of the top financial sites are organized that way. It's impossible with Blogger. My entire blog has moved over intact, from the beginning, except for comments.
BCG
MARCH 21, 2016
Focus Monday, March 21, 2016. The global television industry is in the midst of a digital revolution. Online video has been spreading like wildfire, empowering consumers to watch what they want when they want it, sometimes cutting TV out of the equation altogether. Networks, with their long legacy of linear programming (that is, airing news, sports, and entertainment at set times), are fighting to stay relevant.
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freshminds
MARCH 22, 2016
If anyone is anyone in retail, the annual coming together of industry bosses at Retail Week Live is a big date in your calendar. The popular news website www.retail-week.com puts together this conference to allow a fantastic networking opportunity for retail professionals who are in its readership. As the most trusted source of retail industry intelligence, it is the perfect opportunity for insiders to get a sneak peek of their rivals and colleagues across the retail spectrum and find ways in wh
Strategy+Business
MARCH 23, 2016
To get the most out of employees and colleagues, leaders have to train themselves to go deeper than snap judgments and get to know people for who they are.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
MARCH 24, 2016
As I’m writing this, we’re approaching the end of a fiscal quarter. Because of that, my team and I have been watching our key metrics and our dashboards to see how close to our plans and budget projections we are. We’re watching the numbers more closely now even though we’ve watched them all quarter long. We’re watching them more closely now to determine which strategies to continue and which strategies to adjust.
BCG
MARCH 24, 2016
Video Thursday, March 24, 2016. BCG family-business experts Vikram Bhalla and Nicolas Kachaner recently met in London to discuss the regional differences uncovered in their research on family businesses. Bhalla is a senior partner in the Mumbai office of The Boston Consulting Group. Kachaner is a senior partner in the firm’s Paris office.
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Emerson Consulting Group
MARCH 23, 2016
6 Crucial Actions for Building New Business. By Ken Lizotte CMC. Publishing business articles is a potentially rewarding business development technique. But this means not waiting for “something to happen” as if legions of excited readers are going to rise up quickly and beat a path to your door (apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson who invented this notion!).
Strategy+Business
MARCH 23, 2016
Companies can turn consumers into active online volunteers who offer consistently valuable input on existing and yet-to-be-designed products.
Martinka Consulting
MARCH 22, 2016
Recently I saw a long-time friend and one of the first things he said to me was, “I’ve become the person I never liked.” You see, many years ago he left the private engineering sector for a high-level government agency job (he didn’t like the business development part of being a partner in a firm). He now goes to work everyday bored, fed up with the bureaucracy, and wondering if he should have made a change a few years ago.
BCG
MARCH 23, 2016
Article Wednesday, March 23, 2016. In the movie Moneyball, Billy Beane, the coach of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, transforms the way Oakland trades players, replacing the judgment of experienced scouts with statistical analyses of players’ performance. This allows the team to buy players who are undervalued by baseball insiders and sell players who are overvalued.
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