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Startup Businesses with Professional Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Consultants conduct market validation exercises, customer surveys, prototype testing, and feedback analysis to validate product-market fit and identify areas for improvement. Operational Efficiency and Scalability Efficient operations are critical for startup success, especially as businesses scale and expand.

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The Five Practices That Set Operational Risk Leaders Apart

BCG

Bank operating models continue to evolve in response to new regulations, digitization, a volatile economic and risk environment, external threats, and advances by nontraditional competitors. Besides becoming more effective at managing operational risk, they are achieving high performance without sharply elevating their OR spending.

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Rule of Thumb #2: Use Behavioral Lenses to Innovate and Adapt to Changes

Steve Shu Consulting

There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Use a whiteboard exercise to think about ideal approaches to solving a problem. However, there will also be those that look at this as an opportunity.

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Empower Your Project Team to Make Even Better Use of Technology

PM Alliance

Try this: Identify areas within your operations where technology elements can further streamline activities and eliminate repetitive tasks. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a factor in more areas of business operations. Automation and collaboration tools, for example, can help reduce processing time and other delays.

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20 Questions to Help You Uncover Your Client's TRUE Culture and Politics

Consulting Matters

Politics gets its bad rap when leaders operate out of self-interest versus the best interest of others. Who has the formal authority but is not fully exercising it? While we may think that executives hire consultants for economic reasons - the reality is that more often that not, we're brought in for political reasons.

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Leadership Challenge: Are You Anchored or Adrift?

Makarios Consulting

I was leading them in an exercise to identify their core values. If you think you can operate out of two different sets of core values, the truth is that you do not have any set of core values. To realize that vision, his people would need to operate out of a set of shared values. You see, you can’t have two sets of core values.

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How "scripting the plays" can help launch your lean initiative.

Markovitz Consulting

Unless they develop front-line operators’ problem solving capability, they’re sowing the seeds of their own demise. But classroom lectures, readings, and exercises are, at best, difficult to transplant to actual shop floor interactions, and at worst, a waste of time. But of course, the more fires they douse, the more fires break out.

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