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When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train | Consulting.

Consulting and Organizational Management

When Consultants Should Facilitate, Coach or Train By Carter McNamara on April 13, 2010. There are strong feelings that consulting, facilitating, coaching and training are very different roles. Here are some guidelines for what roles to use and when. When You Might Resort to Training.

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Intro to Consulting Case Frameworks

Management Consulted

Interestingly, however, we were trained at MBB that doing a project for more time gets you NOWHERE. The frameworks help you quickly identify hot topics that will assist you in solving a case – real or in an interview – in an extremely short – and efficient – amount of time. 1 – Market Sizing. 2 – Profitability.

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China Announces SOE Shakeup: Too Little Too Late to Matter

MishTalk

China has unveiled the much-awaited guidelines for reform of its bloated state-owned enterprise sector as the latest official data show its economy continuing to slow. The SOE system should be more modernised and market-oriented. Michael Pettis Chimes In I mentally penned the above while reading the article.

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Distributing social responsibilities to relevant people across the organization can be efficient, be effective, and help make one-on-one customer engagement scalable.

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What Subscription Business Models Mean for Sales Teams

Harvard Business

Across the technology industry, subscription sales models are growing in popularity. The trend is having a big impact on sales forces. As ongoing account management activities consumed more and more sales time, new customer acquisition slowed down–and the company’s revenue growth began slowing, too.

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Enhancing Customer Insights with Public Location Data

Harvard Business

This entails identifying whether exposure to a certain promotion, ad, or specific touchpoint (such as a sales encounter) for a demographic can generate future sales. With the right guidelines in place, there’s a much greater potential for geolocation data that remains untapped.

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Is “Murder by Machine Learning” the New “Death by PowerPoint”?

Harvard Business

” Nobody wants to produce boring presentations that waste everybody’s time, but they do; nobody wants to train machine learning algorithms that produce misleading predictions, but they will. Crudely put, where active machine learning has people training machines, passive machine learning has machines training people.