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Consulting Networking: 6 Best Practice Guidelines

Tom Spencer

What can inspire a more productive conversation with a consultant or recruiter is helping them understand how you might be an asset to the firm. Generally speaking, strengths fall under three categories: Skills – e.g. accounting, finance, data analysis. Emphasize Your Potential to the Firm. Conclusion.

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Projects, Products, and the Project Portfolio: Part 2, Assess & Rank the Work

Johanna Rothman

I called the value stream a product so that people would think about who would use it and why. I suggested that we stop work on specific products when you have more products than teams. That would allow you to work on other projects in service of different products. All the Finance work (Finance is the customer).

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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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How to Write a Great Sales Letter

The Fearless Marketer

How can I get my employees to be more engaged and productive?” We work with high-tech companies to dramatically increase employee engagement and productivity by 25% or more.”. P.S. See an actual sales letter for a professional business service from a client at this link that follows these guidelines (more or less).

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

Inherently, digital printing’s “additive” manufacturing process promises to be less costly than more conventional “subtractive” manufacturing techniques — think about printing something layer by layer instead of milling a block of material into a final product. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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How to get a return offer from your internship

Tom Spencer

Some topics to discuss are: your intern project, big picture questions about the product, company or industry, career advice, and feedback. When writing the email, follow the general guidelines in my cold-email template. Learn your manager’s preferred communication style. Unfortunately, everyone’s communication style is different.

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Top 11 Must-Read Project Management Books

Epicflow

The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only. The “productive laziness” is built on the Pareto principle that states that in many cases, 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes.