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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients.

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Choosing Management Consulting as a Career

Tom Spencer

I had done extensive research into the consulting industry and was a member of the consulting club at my university. Consulting is a knowledge-based industry. It is a high-stakes industry where individuals are comfortable with decision-making. It is a very time-consuming career. Consulting is a long-term career.

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Start Slow, Finish Fast: Rightsizing Your Organization the Right Way

Kates Kesler

Consider these five factors: Customers Strategy and Organization Capabilities Operating Model Organization Shape Talent. Instead of blanket statements such as ‘keeping all high performers,’ viewing talent through a strategic lens can be a useful criteria to make objective tradeoff choices. Customers.

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The Central versus Decentral Dilemma: How the HR Practitioner can Facilitate a “Center-Led” Solution

Kates Kesler

Covid-19 exposed which companies in an industry could change direction quickly and respond to new consumer, employee, regulatory, and supply demands, turning adversity into opportunity. Highly regulated industries typically have more centralized oversight functions. Today’s organizations need to move faster than ever before.

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Fireside Chat – Consulting Recruiting at Target and Non-Target Universities

Tom Spencer

That was when I participated in my first formal case competition and had the opportunity to speak with industry representatives and recent graduates about their career choices in consulting. However, you’ll grow your knowledge base much faster than most industry jobs.

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Gallup Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Survey research was his passion and he began to apply these procedures to various fields of industry. He developed research methods and programs for the television and movie industry to help clients determine advertising effectiveness and how to identify what the market wanted to watch in film and television. Strengths-Based Selection.

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Chief Ecosystem Officer – Taking Customer Centricity to the Next Level

Kates Kesler

Key accountabilities of the Chief Ecosystem Officer include: Creating an integrated customer storyline across all products based on customer insights and intelligence Leading industrial design and UX decisions to create consistent user interface and customer pathway mapping across all product business units Spearheading pricing processes and methodology (..)