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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Professional Services Firms

Progressus

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms?

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Seeing that the nature of strategy consulting differs from the other more implementation and operational driven areas, strategy consultants generally have a different profile than their peers.

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We REALLY Need to Stop Talking About Lean

Markovitz Consulting

Culp, of course, was Danaher’s CEO for 14 years, and is steeped in lean thinking through the Danaher Business System. Culp has also shifted focus away from earnings per share, which was once the most important metric at GE. The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric.

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The Top 8 Undergrad Consulting Majors

Management Consulted

Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. To be specific, a degree in finance shows that you not only know the numbers, but can communicate them in a way that is easy to understand.

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. Sustainable long term success should be defined not by the immediate outcome of your actions, but by the journey and the principles that you uphold along the way.

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The Challenge of Activation

Kates Kesler

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.