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Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex

Consulting Matters

Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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4 Types of Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

Service areas – or functional areas – can include strategy, operations, technology, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, among others. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. They are assigned to service areas, industry verticals, or both. Image: Pexels.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Executives on Demand: What are part-time CEOs and why does every business need one?

SkillQuo

In fact, ‘supertemps’ – highly qualified freelance individuals who work on short-term contracts for companies have been growing not just in the C-suite, but in many various business departments – some carry out niche, specific jobs, like managing large turnarounds or sales while some just fill a much needed managerial space.

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Attended vs. Unattended RPA: It Doesn’t Need to be an Either-Or

1 to 1

It streamlines operations and frees customer-facing employees up to focus on more meaningful interactions with customers. And RPA can help employees across the board in an organization: customer care, sales, finance, HR, supply chain, IT, and procurement. In short, it’s helping brands work smarter, not harder.