Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Being a consultant is no easy feat, and almost every successful consultant is characterised by competent mastery of the following 5 key skills — problem solving, leadership, data and quantitative skills, teamwork, and communication. Here, being a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) can be a useful credential to have.

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The Management Centre

JUNE 29, 2022

Leadership is shifting focus (again). We listened in on a conversation between one of our leadership experts, Yvette Gyles (=mc Learning Director) and Cassie Edmiston (Head of Fundraising and Communications, Prisoners’ Education Trust ), d iscussing the challenges of leadership in 2022. Cassie: Yes, that’s right.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The leaders in the Facilitative Leadership Workshop faced the following challenges: High expectations to take, promote, and encourage a cross-functional and program focus vs. the predominant product and function focus that most of their internal customers follow and are rewarded for. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is where business consulting services shine, offering a wealth of benefits that help companies improve their operations, enhance their strategies, and ultimately achieve better results. Operational Efficiency Process Optimization: Business consultants analyze existing processes and workflows, identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Financial Management Effective financial management is vital for sustainable growth. Consultants assist in budgeting, financial forecasting, cost control, and financial performance analysis. They help companies optimize their financial resources and ensure a healthy bottom line.

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Company Efficiency Financial Operations 52

Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Whether it’s addressing operational inefficiencies, overcoming financial constraints, or streamlining strategic initiatives, business consultants bring a wealth of industry knowledge, strategic insights, and innovative solutions that empower companies to overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve sustainable growth.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 14, 2019

Mark Pierce, owner, operator and founder of E5 Leadership Academy, has been teaching people how to fish rather than giving them a fish. Mark shares the importance of knowing and putting forth the value that they’re creating.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. This group mainly targets financial advisory roles within a business.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Operational Efficiency and Process Optimization Identifying operational inefficiencies and implementing process optimization strategies are key to streamlining business operations and maximizing productivity. Market Expansion and Growth Strategies Achieving business goals often involves market expansion and growth initiatives.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These professionals bring a wealth of industry knowledge, innovative solutions, and a fresh perspective that facilitate enhanced operational efficiency, optimized strategies, and a competitive edge in the market.

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Company Consulting Cash Flow Efficiency 52

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 17, 2020

Speaks the language of business – financials, data and analytics. Understands how the culture and power networks operate within the client system. Helps clients anticipate the Customer/Client, Employee, and Financial/Operational impact of business decisions. Consulting Skills/Process Leadership.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2022

An Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy is a cornerstone to accelerating impact and financial growth goals. Our methodology aligns leadership goals with business capabilities at all levels to change how work gets done, energize change-makers, and accelerate growth, performance, and profitability. . Our Solutions.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Why HR often IS your client and not the gatekeeper if you're in the organization development, leadership development, or change management consulting space. How you can achieve substantial success and the financial rewards that come with it by being yourself.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These questions are designed to help you get to the root of individual performance problems – which may or not not require training to solve (and help you extend the value of your leadership training contracts.). Are tools and equipment operative? Document Operating Guidelines. Provide leadership performance coaching.

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

And because most system implementations are more than just IT projects, bringing numerous operational considerations and workflow changes as part of the equation, project teams sometimes struggle to bring a diverse group of stakeholders into alignment. Growth plans may also change what executives believe is most important in the near term.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. But without a doubt, having a COO in your startup will help to build a stable operational basis for future growth. Harvard Business Review) However, for many of our clients, the CEO and founder plans to get out of operations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2022

I was one of the many that joined this movement to work at a large financial institution, specifically their Global Wealth & Asset Management (GWAM) Strategy team. Driving the initial due diligence and financial analysis on the potential acquisition of a US$1.1B Experience in Internal Strategy. Business as Usual Activities.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 15, 2022

This article continues on from Part 1 , in which I shared some of my experiences of working with an internal strategy team at a large financial institution, and some of the main projects and activities I undertook. Whether you like it or not, you must realize that in a financial institution, to rise you must run a business.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. Others, like financial services, are only now experiencing this change in earnest. The Future of Financial Services. Keep in mind that financial technology is a commodity.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. At this level, managers are consumed with the chaos of daily operations, and seldom have any understanding—or bandwidth—to execute on the lofty strategic goals pronounced in the C-Suite. Problem: lack of clarity around strategy.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We have never yet come across a leadership team that said, “We don’t want good information. But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.” Financial metrics are usually the easiest to identify.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Rick Conlow

MARCH 1, 2023

Despite the research on effective leadership there are too many bad bosses. The worst bosses contribute to poor morale and bad attitudes, which lead to poor productivity, indifferent customer service, lower sales, reduced quality, and poorer overall financial results. Operates with position power. Communicates ambiguity.

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Consulting Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Are tools and equipment operative? Document Operating Guidelines. Provide leadership performance coaching. Align measures to compensation and rewards (financial, spot awards and promotions). Conditions. Are task procedures clear and workable? Is the workplace physically organized? Is enough time available? Measurement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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Brimstone Consulting

APRIL 10, 2023

An Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy is a cornerstone to accelerating impact and financial growth goals. These environmental, socioeconomic and governance variables, collectively referred to as ESG risks, are likely to affect the financial situation or operating performance of a company.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Why do investors react negatively to financial statement losses for an industrial firm but disregard such losses for a digital firm? In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Under his guidance, LEGO adopted a collaborative ethos, rallying its entire workforce around a pivotal strategy that focused on the iconic LEGO brick, deepened community engagement, and streamlined its operations.

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LSA Global

MARCH 7, 2024

What Happens When the Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions Is Underestimated We know from organizational alignment research that culture accounts for 40% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of revenue growth, profitability, leadership effectiveness, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.

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Alan Weiss

JANUARY 2, 2021

Apple can make a $40 million error, and it’s barely a footnote on the financial reports. Small businesses are the major creator of net, new jobs in North America (larger businesses tend to replace workers with automation and foreign operations). But for a small business, making a $40,000 error can be fatal. Cash is king.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

BCG in the Middle East has focused on the following industries and sectors: government, financial services, energy, industrial goods, telecommunications, real estate, healthcare and private equity. McKinsey works relentlessly towards promoting gender diversity in the Gulf, and empowers their women in leadership. bravo Deloitte!).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Hearings last month before the Senate’s banking committee and the House’s Financial Services Committee point to further dangerous cultural dynamics inside Wells Fargo. The bank proudly held itself apart from its New York–based peers after the financial crisis and regularly touted its “ culture of caring.”

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Comatch

MAY 3, 2023

As a language model, ChatGPT can aid in internal communication by helping translate ideas between departments that sometimes operate in different languages (for example the business and development departments). As an independent consultant, it can be difficult to focus on using your expertise to add value to a project in these circumstances.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Evaluating leadership capital has always been a critical component of due diligence for deal teams.

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