Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

If you are confronted with the necessity of making a major change in your business, here are four guidelines for leading change that will help make 2021 a great year. Give an update on sales, revenue, customer satisfaction, productivity, or whatever metrics are most beneficial to show the company’s progress.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Interestingly, however, we were trained at MBB that doing a project for more time gets you NOWHERE. After years of doing what we do (trainings/guest lectures/creating materials on case interviews), we noticed a distinct lack of practical tools designed to help people understand how consultants approach business. 1 – Market Sizing.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. Modeling scientist: Models, training data, algorithms. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 13, 2017

The first two were clearly only interested in making a sale that benefitted them, so I moved on. To achieve this favorable reputation for yourself, keep the following guidelines in mind. The most common example is arguing over the price of a product or service. Avoid narrowing the negotiation down to one issue.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 7, 2011

The following links are to free, online resources with guidelines to address the considerations and in the right order. Or Starting a New Product or Service? Product Development. Marketing Your Organization, Product or Service. Training and Development. Enterprise Law — Forming Organizations. Read more.].

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

The SOEs also created jobs, but did so at huge expense: By taking productive land from farmers, by massive pollution, vacant cities and malls, forced migration, and an untenable reliance on fixed investment growth. We now see the effects in steel and cement production, crashing commodity prices, capital flight, and a plunging stock market.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

To understand a product’s sales potential, executives want industry-specific indicators. For example, if a company sells toothbrushes, it uses toothbrush sales forecasts to determine yearly targets. If official numbers contradict your understanding of the market and actual sales performance, do not ignore it.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

A week ago, they told me they decided not to hire me, and would do the facilitator training themselves. Basic Guidelines to Quickly Gain Credibility, Get Projects – and Be Paid. Describe general guidelines, but not procedures. If you’ve followed the above guidelines, then a proposal (or Statement of Work) should be easy.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

It helps internals to appreciate and apply the many guidelines for consultants, as well. Often these internal consultants are in large organizations and from training and development or human resource departments. For training on consulting skills, see the Consultants Development Institute. What Is an External Consultant?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Clearly define roles and responsibilities among marketing, customer service, public relations, sales, corporate communication, human resources, etc.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. Help your employees be more data-savvy. Find the supporting players. It wasn’t.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 3, 2010

The general guideline I use is — the greater the change, the lower the predictability; therefore we have to attend to the impact of the change on the total system. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces. Read more.].

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

Across the technology industry, subscription sales models are growing in popularity. The trend is having a big impact on sales forces. For example, an enterprise software company recently transitioned from selling custom software as a one-time product to selling monthly SaaS (software as a service) subscriptions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

She was training a new project manager, Donna (not her real name), who had more experience than she did and “wasn’t necessarily pleased to be taking direction,” Karen recalls. “I stressed how important it was to follow the guidelines — and included the reasoning behind each process,” she recalls.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2018

After that, each time shoppers with the app enter a beacon-enabled store, they can receive promotional messages or deals on their device about products in the aisles they are browsing. With the right guidelines in place, there’s a much greater potential for geolocation data that remains untapped.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be. The enterprise history of personal productivity tools offers plenty of unhappy litanies of unintended consequences. The intelligent networks to counter-productivity hell are wired with good intentions. They shouldn’t be so sure.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In high-performance environments, guidelines empower leaders to use their personal judgment to make decisions. If you believe employees require need strict rules and enforcement to be productive, hiring and retaining high-performance people will be a challenge for you. You hired these people for their tenacity and talents.

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