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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. These days, it pays to practice being in “interview mode” so you’re ready for the real thing – whether it’s networking with a neighbor at Starbucks or sitting in the hot seat.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S., Innovation is the goal at other campsites, where diverse stakeholders are assembled with specific tasks and equipped with special facilities and methodologies (say, design thinking) to achieve them.

Company 30
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Robots Will Replace Doctors, Lawyers, and Other Professionals

Harvard Business

We conducted around 100 interviews, not with mainstream professionals but with leaders and new providers in eight professional fields: health, law, education, audit, tax, consulting, journalism, architecture, and divinity. Increasingly, doctors are using checklists, lawyers rely on precedents, and consultants work with methodologies.

System 28
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How Children’s Health System of Texas Is Improving Care with Design Thinking

Harvard Business

But the most powerful drivers of change are not necessarily technological; radical improvements increasingly also come from applying new innovation methodologies like design thinking that focus on developing a deep understanding of patient experiences and invite patients and partners into co-creation processes. Insight Center.

System 28
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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

In short, as one Manizales stakeholder put it, communicating growth meant exercising muscles they did not even know they had. In contrast, our scale up methodology assumes that selfless contributions of time and resources – donating blood, if you will – for growth can only go so far.