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Your Clients’ Top 7 Obligations to Your Consulting Firm

David A Fields

Consulting can sometimes feel like an unequal, parent-child type relationship. They set rules. They control your payments. They tell you to turn your music down. But the relationship isn’t as unequal as it seems. In fact, it needn’t be unequal at all.

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Why are Soft Skills Important?

MBO Partners

What soft skills are, why they are important, and how you can improve yours.

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Why I Was Wrong About 2 Second Lean

Markovitz Consulting

It’s time to admit that one of my consulting approaches has failed. I’m a huge fan of Paul Akers’ 2 Second Lean philosophy. It’s simple, easy to understand, and has an intrinsic appeal: “fix what bugs you.” “Figure out how to do your job two seconds faster each day.” Who wouldn’t sign on to a lean program that promotes that mindset? So off I went to my clients, with Paul’s videos embedded in my PowerPoint presentation, ready to show them how 2 Second Lean is the answer to their productivity prob

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Michael Zipursky on The Daily Grind Podcast

Consulting Success

Michael was recently featured on The Daily Grind Podcast, which you can listen to here: The Daily Grind with Michael Zipursky One of the biggest challenges early on in my career was working in Japan. I was in my early 20s, fresh out of college, wasn’t fluent in Japanese — yet I was working and living among this culture that was so different from my own.

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PowerPoint Best Practices for Creating Stellar Presentations

Mastering data visualization in PowerPoint will help accelerate your career because it positions you as someone who can present data that drives business decisions forward. think-cell's PowerPoint Best Practices eBook was created specifically for professionals aiming to master the art and science of data-driven storytelling. What’s inside: Practical Insights: Uncover valuable tips for crafting engaging and persuasive presentations.

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

Based on a recent study by Global Industry Analysts , the global market for wearable medical devices is projected to eclipse $4.5 billion by 2020. 1 In the United States, the predominant market in this space, it is estimated that roughly 20% of Americans currently own a wearable fitness device. 2 As questions on how to rein in increasing healthcare costs continue to mount, and politicians focus on passing legislation and targeting the pharmaceutical industry, a possible solution may be wearable

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How to Dramatically Increase Your Email Response

The Fearless Marketer

Is it possible to use personalized emails that get a great response, and ultimately, new clients, from those in your network? I’m not talking about mass direct emails, but sending individual emails to people in one’s network, LinkedIn connections, past clients, etc. for the purpose of generating enough interest to get a conversation with that person.

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Open Innovation Consulting Best Practices with Scott Wagers: Podcast #47

Consulting Success

Anytime you’re solving a business problem or anytime you’re offering a service, one of the best ways to figure out what you should be offering is to find out what the market wants and figure out what problems the buyer is having and focusing on that. Open innovation catalyst Scott Wagers has been trying to address that question over the course of his career.

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Role of Big Data in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

The healthcare industry generates a large amount of data. The retention of this data is driven by the need to meet intricate compliance and regulatory requirements. 1 Electronic health record (EHR) data is at times so massive that it can be difficult to manage with the usual data management tools that hospitals and physicians currently use. 2 According to a study by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation, the U.S. healthcare system held over 150 exabytes of data back in 2012, and w

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Bit by Bit, Putting it Together

Chad Barr

I have repeatedly said that as thought leaders and experts in our fields, we should be quoting ourselves, and often. In January 2013, I committed to post weekly newsletters and over five years later, without missing a week, I’ve accomplished that including today’s, 291st posting. Last July 2017, I pledged to publish my daily quotes , five days a week, and I am proud to say that exactly a year later I just wrote and posted number 255!

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to Dramatically Increase Your Email Response

The Fearless Marketer

Is it possible to use personalized emails that get a great response, and ultimately, new clients, from those in your network? I’m not talking about mass direct emails, but sending individual emails to people in one’s network, LinkedIn connections, past clients, etc. for the purpose of generating enough interest to get a conversation with that person.

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3 Steps to Building Trust in AI

Strategy+Business

It is human nature to distrust what we don't understand, and much about AI may not be completely clear. For further insights, read "The Future of Artificial Intelligence Depends on Trust.

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How to Stop Saying “Um,” “Ah,” and “You Know”

Harvard Business

Emma Innocenti/Getty Images. Um. Ah. So. You Know. Like. Right? Well. When we find ourselves rattled while speaking — whether we’re nervous, distracted, or at a loss for what comes next — it’s easy to lean on filler words. These may give us a moment to collect our thoughts before we press on, and in some cases, they may be useful indicators that the audience should pay special attention to what comes next.

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Updated Distributed Agile Teams Book Available

Johanna Rothman

You might remember I’m working on a book with Mark Kilby. It’s From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. We just published a new version of the book. We rearranged the entire book. In this version, we added a chapter called “Avoid Chaos with Insufficient Hours of Overlap.” That one chapter might be all you need to create a successful distributed agile team.

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Savings Consultants Are Needed in Today's Market More Than Ever

Savings Consultants are needed in today’s market more than ever. With an increase in expenses, businesses are looking for opportunities to save. Often unknown to businesses are savings in expense reduction, specialized tax savings, specialized savings including medical underpayments, health benefits cost reduction, zero cost processing, and more. Blue Coast Savings, with over 20 years in business, assists Savings Consultants in helping these companies move toward more profitable businesses.

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How to convince companies to dedicate time for Optimization a.

Consulthon

Hi dear consulthons, One of my favourite pictures showing the attitude and wrong approach of most of the Companies to the Optimization Process is attached here. Have you faced the same problem? 90.

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence Depends on Trust

Strategy+Business

As more and more companies in a range of industries adopt machine learning and more advanced AI algorithms, the ability to provide understandable explanations for different stakeholders becomes critical. If people don't know why an AI system made a decision, they may not trust the outcome.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business

jessica solomatenko/Getty Images. It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. The word can be uttered by a CEO speaking to employees or Wall Street analysts. It can be emblazoned on the door to a new innovation center in Silicon Valley.

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Planning: Risk Management to Manage Uncertainty

Johanna Rothman

Many organizations plan to create certainty, guarantees of some variety. What if we thought about agile planning as a way to manage uncertainty? When I look at long roadmaps with all the “must-do” feature sets and the pressure managers put on teams to commit to delivery, I wonder about this question: How well do we understand the problems we want to solve?

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES for developing DECISION SUPPORT PACKAGES

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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Which Book Publishing Option Is Right for You?

Emerson Consulting Group

By Ken Lizotte CMC. Enjoy this excerpt from The Speaker’s Edge: The Ultimate Go-To Guide for Locating and Landing Lots of Speaking Gigs (Maven House Press). If you want to be respected as a “thoughtleader” and if you especially want to add speaking engagements to your marketing repertoire, you must consider writing and publishing a book. The credential of book authorship–despite the rise of social media, YouTube, and Internet marketing–holds no equal.

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Innovation isn’t just in tech

Martinka Consulting

When we think of innovation we think of the technology industry, don’t we? We tend to think of disrupters like Amazon, Google, Netflix, and others. Or perhaps the company that started SaaS (Software as a Service), which has permeated into way too many industries and businesses. It seems almost every time I look at some service they want a subscription; from wine clubs to every software possible, to maintenance agreements, and more.

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How Managers Can Prevent Their Teams from Burning Out

Harvard Business

Kenny Williamson/Getty Images. No organization wants to burn out its employees. And yet, according to new research, companies’ efforts to prevent prolonged stress among their staffs are falling short. When Deloitte recently surveyed 1,000 full-time employees in the United States, we found that that 77% had experienced burnout at their current jobs, and more than half said they’d felt it more than once.

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Smile: you’re on candid camera. Or you could be.

Rod Burkert

Greetings from Wisconsin. The RV is parked just a few miles from the Mighty Mississippi where we will be hanging out for a few weeks while my father-in-law (a retired carpenter and one of the handiest men I know) helps us with some inside-the-coach projects. I hope our last conversation (literally, since it was a video of me talking to you) about getting sh!

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Why You Need to Use Case Studies in Sales and Marketing (and How to Start Now)

Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c

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How to do proper KPI setting?

Consulthon

Hello Everyone, Currently I'm working on project with the scope of reviewing the current performance management system and setting new KPI's. My challenge goes like this: 1) What is the balanced no.

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Saving the World is Overrated: How about starting with yourself?

Confessions of a Consultant

Saving the World is over-rated (if you don’t save yourself first). I have just finished reading the book ‘To Russia with Love.’ No, it wasn’t the James Bond story (“From Russia with Love)by Ian Fleming. But there was still plenty of adventure in this one. The book details the story of Debbie Deegan, a stay-at-home mother in Clontarf who initially took in a ‘Chernobyl Kid’ for the summer.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

Lynn Koenig/Getty Images. We all have times when we wonder, “Am I at the right company? Am I in the right job? And is this all there is?” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis?

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What It Means to Be a Culture Champion

LSA Global

What Is a Culture Champion? We define a culture champion as someone of influence who believes that organizational culture matters, that culture has a significant impact on business results, and acts accordingly. How Culture Relates to Business Results. Our organizational alignment research found that corporate culture (how work gets done) accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing teams and organizations.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.