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7 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren't "Getting It" When you Talk and Write About What You Do

Consulting Matters

When you try to talk to everybody, you talk to nobody and you'll wind up trying to sell your methodologies to anyone who will buy them and truth is - no one wants your methodology. There are so many things that we're experts in and so many processes and methodologies we use to create results for our clients.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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Artificial Intelligence: It’s Current and Future Role in Healthcare (Part 2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Most notably, at the 2018 World Medical Innovation Forum , which focused on advancements in artificial intelligence, a number of notable healthcare faculty and thought leaders presented specific devices and treatment methodologies that are likely to be used in the healthcare industry. Next-Generation Radiographic Tools. Sheber, Sarah.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

From these deep roots, the $11 billion self-improvement industry has grown. Today, like so much around us, that industry is heavily influenced by tech. Numerous studies support this — for example, the Journal of Consumer Research has published research showing that Americans associate busyness and stress with prestige and status.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Their winning paper, Sales Territory Design: 30 Years of Modeling and Implementation , was subsequently published in the INFORMS journal, Marketing Science. Industries. ZS covers multiple industries, including: Business Services. Industrial Products & Services. Consumer Packaged goods. Medical Products and Services.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. While the industry is growing rapidly, it is also highly volatile. A new methodology, which we call customer-based corporate valuation (CBCV), holds the answer to both of these – and other similarly critical – questions.