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How to Build Your Business on the Best of Your Career with Lori Smith

Consulting Matters

She had created a unique role for herself as an initiative and project integrator that combined her finance background, six-sigma process improvement and project management training, and natural relationship-building skills. She found herself at crossroads, wondering what was next for her career.

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

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Do process improvements support strategic objectives? How often do you release new products/services?

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Business consulting services

Asamby Consulting

Finance A financial consultant will assess the business model and provide accurate strategies and timelines for the client’s to establish a good financial structure and obtain profitability. It is crucial for business owners to understand where they stand, what they want to achieve, and how to execute their strategies.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

This results in missed opportunities for new products, process improvements, or creative solutions to challenges. Poor Leadership: Many leaders at the top come from a finance background and this inhibits their focus on people. Others just do not care. They value power, money, and influence over people and purpose.

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

It’s also important to explain the changes that would have happened anyway — for example, process improvements, strategic shifts in the market, and realignment of structures — regardless of what is happening due to the integration process. Create a dedicated deal team.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.” Finances were a consideration. “My wife has a good job, and we’ve been prudent with our finances our entire marriage,” he says.

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