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Choosing Management Consulting as a Career

Tom Spencer

Consulting is a knowledge-based industry. Other individuals have based their consulting career choice on the degree they studied, wanting to align the skills learnt through their qualification with a specific career path. Many consultants have a commerce (business, finance, and economics), engineering or technology background.

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How To Get The Attention Of Top Executives: The “Sidestep” Method

Tsavo Neal

Instead, they rely on a small army of advisors who provide specialized knowledge based on their qualifications, experience, and skills. Let’s say, for example, that you’re a consultant who wants to help renewable-energy companies create effective business plans – and by “effective” we mean “able to help raise financing.”.

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Deep Dive into Customer Segmentation (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Attitudes toward the brand, the way they use it, and their knowledge base are all examples of behavioral segmentation. For example, the finance team is able to confirm whether new customer growth has increased in the target segments. Segmentation should be based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative data.

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How to scale shared success through collaboration and trust

Kates Kesler

For instance, a marketing person may want to create a network that includes the finance manager who can release funding for a campaign, the web developer who can program the campaign pages and the product specialist who can explain the features and benefits of the solution.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

Technical skills are typically required to implement a new business idea, while business skills are required for conducting market research and finding a promising niche or for securing financing during research and development stages.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

The impact has been consequential: ICT is rapidly moving Africa toward knowledge-based economic structures and information societies, comprising networks of individuals, firms, and states that are linked electronically and in interdependent relationships. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Start a knowledge base. It’s time to dedicate a full-time person to building your knowledge base and providing customer education support. Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks. Pick your channels deliberately.

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