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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Non-Profit “Product” Launch Case Study…

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

Product” Launch to Improve Program Numbers Challenge : Regional non-profit in youth sports had been dealing with a 7-year decline in the number of children served in its various programs that were added to by the COVID-19 lockdowns and changes in behavior.

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Low-value travel?

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Analysis Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

ANALYSIS GROUP CONSULTING. Today, as we continue our firm profile series, we’ll be looking at Analysis Group. Founded in 1981, Analysis Group is one of the largest economic consulting firms in North America. KEY STATS FOR ANALYSIS GROUP. Analysis Group Website: www.analysisgroup.com . ANALYSIS GROUP HISTORY .

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Remote Work & Office Work – Discovering the Mutual Benefits

Tom Spencer

Whilst remote working has brought many benefits – increased flexibility, reduced travel costs, and resulting lower pollution – it has come with its own set of drawbacks. In groups that are unfamiliar with one another, it is not uncommon to have prolonged periods of silence where each participant fears being the first to speak.

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Just How Bad Is Business Travel for Your Health? Here’s the Data.

Harvard Business

I went with the pizza, but my lack of choices was annoying — so much so that, when I got home, I started looking into the data on health and travel for work. According to the Global Business Travel Association and American Express , Americans took more than 500 million domestic business trips in 2016.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Reusable Parts.

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