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Overcoming Business Challenges with Business Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement Streamlining operations and improving efficiency is essential for businesses to thrive. A report by Aberdeen Group found that companies working with consultants achieved a 28% improvement in operational efficiency. This results in a lack of growth.

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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

Another great sales point for the software—the opportunity to anoint a class of high priests with specialized knowledge who take responsibility for improvement. Look—I’m sure that sophisticated software can play an important role in process improvement, especially when you’re dealing with highly complex processes.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

In one retail company, a group of managers did this ad nauseam about a selected few. A few people were hurt, team cooperation suffered and so did sales. Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. Guess what? It would have never happened.

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Why I'm Cynical about the Consulting Profession | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Years ago, I remember going out on sales calls with one of the partners in our consulting firm, Marv Weisbord. So, we’d be sitting with a group of managers listening to them talk about their difficult issues. team building, coaching, a visioning conference, a process improvement project, etc.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. Impact on Performance: The Aberdeen Group found that organizations with effective employee recognition programs have a 14.6% We thought they could do more.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. Okay, now we need a supervisor for the group. So, I’m not a strict engineer.

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How to Discover and Own Your Consulting Superpower: Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. There was a problem within the organization, there was some kind of challenge within the group, or within the process, that I was just sick of dealing with.