Consulting Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

I think one of the things that us working at home a lot have clarified for us is that we've got to get creative about how we deliver our consulting and coaching. And we've got to figure out how to do it virtually and courses are great way to go about doing it. We can show you how to set up your course to convert!

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 15, 2017

Currently, Kalypso LP operates as a subsidiary of Palladius Inc. Kalypso’s day-to-day operations are run by George Young (Chairman), Mick Broekhof (Founding Partner, Head of Kalypso Europe), and Bill Poston (Founding Partner, Managing Director). KALYPSO ORGANIZATION. The firm is headquartered in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They shared five key insights for employers looking to improve retention and engagement, including how to improve manager training, diversity and inclusion, and scheduling. Train frontline managers to support people and process. The good news is that multiple employers are already innovating in these areas.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. I ended up traveling on a few projects with my friend Basel, an analyst who started the same day that I did. I would say it happened a bit by accident. Absolutely.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. You won’t succeed without having a firm grasp on numbers, markets, analytics, economies of scale and much, much more.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 22, 2015

Tom: PIP appears to offer a broad range of services including Coaching & Training, Operations & Maintenance, as well as Strategy. Tom: What kind of training and mentoring programs does the firm offer for graduates? Tom: What is the firm’s travel model? Potential candidates should expect heavy travel days.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This blog post gives you the comprehensive answer: Why compensation is important How to structure your fixed salary components What options for variable pay are there How to pick the right perks and benefits What allowances are and what to pay them for What long-term incentives are out there How strategy and finance influence compensation Let's go!

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Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2018

Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan. It’s that simple. The earlier you start, the better.

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Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2016

For people trying to break an addiction to work, mindfulness training can therefore be “extremely valuable,” according to Friedman. Amanda Sowadski, a former corporate director of business operations based in Minneapolis, first realized she was a workaholic after landing in the ER with a panic attack. ”

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Erdogan suggests saying something along the lines of, “I’d like to be in a job with more predictability and reduced travel.” Case Study #2: Express enthusiasm for the job, and demonstrate how you will add value. Today he is the senior digital marketing strategist at PureVPN, which operates a self-managed VPN network.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. So a lot of people were surprised when it launched a brick and mortar book store , but as Apple has shown with its highly successful retail operation, there’s a big advantage to having stores staffed with well trained people.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. Thank you, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 12, 2016

With 27 offices worldwide, Parthenon-EY is still a new venture, although it is has gained decent market share in the 2 years it has been operational. The practice areas at Parthenon-EY reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm. Practice Areas. Note the diversity of industries Parthenon-EY works with.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The Brazilian television show "Fantastico" exposed an NSA training presentation that discusses how the agency runs man-in-the-middle attacks on the Internet. The name of Petrobras appears on several slides, as the training goes deeper in explaining how date from the target companies is monitored.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. His solution was to hire village women with high-school diplomas and train them for two years to work as “midlevel ophthalmic paramedics.”

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

This firm was birthed out of the frustration they both felt with their employer, who they believed devoted too much time to operational issues while neglecting strategic analysis. Operational Strategy. Expect to travel to the client location on an as-needed basis; regardless, Fridays are usually spent in your home office.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. Very intellectual job – can I do it?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

But this suggests that most leaders don’t know how much of a blind spot intellectual humility is in their work. Traveling a lot — or, even better, living for extended periods in foreign cultures — tends to make us more willing to revise our viewpoints.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2017

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. We gave tactical suggestions for how managers could do this (e.g., use travel time to connect with team members and establish an open-door policy). We also reinforced connections through mentorship and sponsorships.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Second, once you can parcel work among your employees, you can measure them ever more closely and figure out how to maximize what you get (and minimize what you pay). When you can train a CNC machine or a spreadsheet to do a job better than a person can, odds are you will. Third, computers make patient, consistent, cheap workers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

For example, organizations such as CareMore have invested in “extensivists,” primary care physicians who travel to hospitals where CareMore patients are admitted and link the hospital stay with primary care.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Mary sought care at a large academic medical center with multiple entrances and towers; at times she was expected to travel long distances due to the sheer size of the facility. Often, the feedback indicates when or how to modify solutions, or whether to go back and gather more information. Each year approximately 3.6

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MishTalk

MARCH 14, 2015

At the peak of streetcar travel in the mid-1920s, some 800 streetcars covering 200 miles of track carried 97 million passenger trips a year. Tucson''s $196 million Sun Link Streetcar Project, recently named the Public Works Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, will operate on a 3.9-mile miles around downtown.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Everything is designed to remind our employees how to protect themselves, our company, and the millions of people who use Facebook every day. We tried to simplify this by creating a security help form on our intranet as well as offering tours of our Global Security Operations Center.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. Was it a specific class that you were doing? Yeah, sure.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

Have you ever had a card declined when you tried to use it while traveling?) One important technique in AI is reinforcement learning whereby a computer is trained to take actions that maximize a certain reward function. For instance, DeepMind’s AlphaGo was trained this way to maximize its chances of winning the game of Go.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2016

Gopman’s journey is a great illustration of how to adopt what I call an ecosystem mindset : an understanding that the keys to new value and growth likely do not reside within one’s current boundaries but beyond them, and that success involves forging new connections to solve problems and create new value as a team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). It also means that interns are at times required to travel and interact with FTI’s clients. New Director School.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half. Traveling, often long-distance, to meet people face-to-face, when a phone call would suffice. How to Foster a Shorter, More Productive Workday.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Moreover, these customers don’t even know our cookstove exists, so before we even get to delivery, we have to figure out how to help people discover our product. From this, we learned that our products require a highly trained representative who can speak to the benefits of our stove in front of customers who are willing to purchase it.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

Ask yourself these three questions: As it relates to pure exhaustion, on a scale of 1-5 where one is “I’m operating on fumes. I feel exhausted beyond exhausted and can barely make it through the day,” and five is “I’m full of zest and have energy as the day is long” how would you rate yourself?

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 7, 2016

One problem, however, with tossing traditional practice to the wind is that it takes a significant amount of success to prove that you’re operating on more than just blind luck. As with most small firms, TCG makes an investment in hiring and training interns – if you’re good, they would love for you to stick around!

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