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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Operations Consultants: Operations consultants are consultants who help clients improve the performance of their operations.

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Technology Ain’t Going to Solve Your Problems

Markovitz Consulting

I was at a conference for internet retailers two weeks ago and was overwhelmed by the software and hardware solutions promising to solve all their operational problems and turn their ecommerce businesses into a highly profitable, eight figure monsters. Yes, the system is pricey, but think of the productivity improvement! They’re lying.

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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. It’s not.

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Embracing Experiential Learning

Tom Spencer

A few experiential learning opportunities to look for on campus include consulting clubs, finance clubs, student government, and technology development teams. On-campus engagements are opportunities for students to engage with their peers in a productive environment. Opportunities on-campus.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. A finance executive said this of the decades-old corporate attitude, “We are GM. He entered the building protected by multiple bodyguards.

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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

Although still early, behavioral insights and the application of behavioral economics principles have been going global in the public policy space. One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. Operating Model Development. What should our behavioral insights team look like?

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Inside a Fortune 500 Boardroom

CaseInterview.com

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