Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Social entrepreneurship combines the problem solving, product design, and strategic implementation associated with traditional entrepreneurial and consulting roles with large scale societal impact. Project Innovators provide the deliverables in a timely fashion by working with Project Managers ( PMs ). Enter Social Entrepreneurship!

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Consulting Engineering Case Interview Survey 88

Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events. Trying to improve productivity in a process by 25% on first try is (generally) a recipe for failure and frustration—notwithstanding Byrne’s success with that approach. You build your way up to those levels.

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Seth Godin Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

The factory owner seeks productivity, which equals more, which means pushing people to go faster. The clicker can easily lead to better training. Click training is not going to create the sort of professional who can work from home. Home is long-term, work might not be. The clicker confirms their attendance.

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1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

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LSA Global

APRIL 25, 2017

We know from decades of designing and delivering customized new manager training programs that new managers and leaders are especially apt to shy away from difficult conversations or tough situations. Would Chris be happier and more productive working elsewhere in the company? You need to show the team that you deserve their respect.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, the company faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. computer skills) training. coaching) and functional (e.g.,

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Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

To support the office’s growing employee base, Bain moved in 2015 to a new location in the fashionable Grace Building, which is located directly across the street from historic Bryant Park. The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

The model simultaneously compared sales of different types of products with local demographic and financial statistics to come up with a single efficiency measure for each salesperson relative to their peers. Unfortunately, the company lacked the infrastructure to directly implement the trained model in a production setting.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MAY 7, 2019

Pencil manufacturing in the US at the time was extremely competitive, with many pencil “products” lacking the reliably fine-point consistency we are accustomed to today. Drawing on his Harvard-acquired study and research skills, he soon located a solution that in fact had already been put into practice in France.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. Help your employees be more data-savvy. Find the supporting players.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A small team of analytics professionals (not necessarily data scientists) to develop appropriate analytical tools and techniques and enable the organization to deploy them through internal training and advice. The result? The first 60-seat course offering filled to capacity.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Management consulting can be likened to a ‘fashion business’, in the sense that new ideas fall in and out of vogue all the time. A noticeable drop in productivity or a change in work habits e.g. reduced hours. Keep focused on your best people. At the height of the Celtic Tiger, labour retention was definitely ‘in’.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Examples include defining and agreeing on new work practices, creating a blueprint for business processes, agreeing on changes to job roles and responsibilities, establishing new performance-management systems, training in new business skills as well as the more obvious training and education in using the new system, and so on.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2017

Indeed, Siri seems more persona than product. It’s no surprise then that “personality training” is becoming such a serious business, and people who perform that task can come from a variety of backgrounds. And then there are ethical challenges.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 21, 2020

Buyer’s journey mapping has grown in importance for professional services firms as more firm solutions have become productized. It’s just a good old-fashioned understanding of client needs, combined with intelligent segmentation, aligned with consultative selling, and assisted by technology. A few superstars rise even higher.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Dialing phones all day is emotionally exhausting work that also requires a lot of real-time training and adjustments. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion. There’s tremendous benefit in being co-located with others doing the same thing.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

For the last 50 years it has not been fashionable to talk about moral development, yet the subject of moral development is all about being a grown up. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Training and Development.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2018

Consultants are sometimes accused of trying to hoodwink their clients with smoke and mirrors, using management fashions or buzzwords for their own benefit. Clients might reason, “ We shouldn’t have to train you ! In the meantime, the client may question their value add, exposing them to productivity threats.

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Consulting Fashion Management Study 53

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” He’s the CEO and self-titled “Head Coach ” of Björn Borg, the Swedish sports fashion company named after the tennis star.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 19, 2010

Working in a collaborative fashion with your clients helps ensure that recommendations are accurate, that clients follow the recommendations and that they adopt the changes needed to improve themselves and their organizations. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. Training and Development.

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Consulting Organizational Development Nonprofit Ethics 49

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. CEO Stefan Jacoby and CHRO Björn Sällström rigorously examined Volvo’s existing workforce. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. And how do you then help him understand the importance of picking up the pace — and support him in doing so?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

In light of that, how do self-managed organizations make learning productive? But in areas where adaptability is critical — say, in new product development or marketing — responsive structuring and learning can help you meet the needs of your customers, your employees, and the business. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2018

Instead, they want a relationship model – a durable, cooperative model that enables companies to partner with academia in a fashion that allows them to stay continuously connected to early stage research and to accelerate the translation of that research into new products that drive economic growth.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. ABIe pulls its answers from a data warehouse, where all the knowledge relating to the company’s products and processes has been organized.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

What I realized when I started traveling around the world and working with midwives and traditional birth attendants is that the tools that I had learned at Georgetown where I trained, which were mostly centered around pharmacy and surgery, were limited. There's many more tools than pharmacy and surgery. Dr. Pati: Yes. It really is.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Her mother, Kyle Richey, and her co-founder, David Richey, are known for helping luxury service businesses — including hotel, retail, fashion, and professional sports — develop brand-defining service standards. The Richeys invited me to join their product development advisory board. What are our strengths?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 26, 2016

In the 1980s, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined the term emotional labor to refer to the ways flight attendants were trained to present a calm, friendly, and professional demeanor to customers — even if the flyers they were attending to were frightened, angry, or abusive. Consider faces, not numbers.

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Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

Being able to run errands e.g. to pop around to the Supermarket – if you need to – decreases stress (and increases productivity). Higher Productivity: A recent HBR article found that people working from home completed 13.5% Psychologically, people feel more in control working from home – even for 1 day a week.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is a deceptively simple example of what the Harvard-trained economist Mancur Olson popularized as the collective-action problem. Beijing will likely soon present Trump with a deal to simply agree to buy more American agricultural or industrial products, but not make much movement of reform. The problem is something of a paradox.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In our clinical and academic lives (where we’ve treated countless patients and mentored hundreds of doctors-in-training) we strive to do both as well as we can. A brief after hours call, text message, or email can help your mentee stay on track and prevent you from being the rate-limiting step in their productivity.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2016

For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. For Millennial women, it might be Levo or The Muse. What’s the trick?

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. From here, firms have to make a creative leap to discover the unique combination of products and services that may address those needs. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Springsteen’s latest production, an intimate solo show, will combine readings from his recent autobiography, Born to Run , with a selection of songs. Training his inner gaze on his own questions ultimately lets Springsteen understand and sing the life of others. Some companies have a few of them; others, a handful.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

But when he had the chance to get candid feedback during a company training, he realized that he wasn’t focused enough on how he was showing up. The human mind rarely operates in a rational fashion, and our judgments are seldom free from bias.

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