Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2023

This is the first of a seven-part series looking at artificial intelligence and its implications for the consulting industry. This article will provide a basic introduction to AI as it relates to the consulting industry and explore some key concepts and applications that every consultant should be familiar with.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

It took hundreds of years to perfect, but we built a system based on profit, convenience, productivity and markets. No one is in charge, no one stays on top forever, and the outputs of the system keep shifting–more of what the capital markets, parts of the labor market and most of all, the consumer market demands.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2020

I got a call from a past client, with whom we worked together on four prior projects, telling me two companies in his industry, including his top competitor, were interested in acquiring his firm. And the business (industry) has suffered a decline due to Covid. Its people, process and systems. Coach and counsel the company.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The retail industry in the United States is undergoing a transformative phase shaped by changing consumer behaviors, technological advancements, and market dynamics. This article delves into the state of the US retail industry, exploring the contrasting landscapes of online and offline retail, backed by facts and statistics.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

You should see SGA: Sales and General Administration—overhead. Tools and technology: Operating systems, languages, anything specifically technical. Industry expertise. The unsaid expectations of the industry in which you work. Look farther down a little, and you’ll see R&D costs.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 21, 2023

This is the seventh of a seven-part series looking at artificial intelligence and its implications for the consulting industry. Since AI systems can perform much of the data collection and analysis, consultants must bring higher level skills to the table, such as interpretation, effective problem solving, and clear communication.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 30, 2021

The sales world is forever altered, thanks to pandemic-fueled digital transformation across entire enterprises. In the B2B space, where relationships reign supreme, sales organizations found effective and efficient ways to conduct business with a digital-first approach that’s efficient, effective, and won’t go away any time soon.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Marketing can train salespeople in social media systems, processes, and best practices.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Sales Training Design Best Practices Matter. Sales training design best practices matter a great deal. Why go through the expense, effort, and time to provide business sales training for your sales force if it is does not improve sales performance? 12 Sales Training Design Best Practices.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this article, we will explore how e-commerce companies can achieve significantly better results in areas like website performance, marketing, advertising, conversion rates, sales, and profitability by collaborating with business consultants through specialized business consulting services.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

At the same time, the software company has wasted time and resources on duplicate, uncoordinated, and ineffective marketing and sales outreach. Companies need an orchestrator to ensure marketing and sales outreach is well-coordinated and aligned with customer buying needs. In some cases, the orchestrator is a computer system.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Consultants facilitate the seamless integration of e-commerce platforms, enabling entrepreneurs to leverage user-friendly interfaces, secure payment gateways, and robust inventory management systems to optimize online business operations.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Factors impacting profit margins include the tendency to allocate 80% of project work with the last 20% of the budget, inaccurate time-sheet reporting, underbidding during the sales process, and client disputes. Measuring utilization informs decisions regarding hiring, outsourcing, skill development, and workload distribution.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The first one seeks to implement a principle for taxation of corporate revenues based on location of sale rather than place of manufacturing. This should make the international tax system both simpler and fairer. The BEPS initiative has two main pillars. How do these developments impact the special services and consultancy sector?

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 15, 2020

To attract the right people into your sales funnel, you have to know who they are. Discern who you serve and describe them from a demographic standpoint (what title, industry, company size they work in, etc.) This 5-module ACTION LEARNING system provides you essential marketing training as you build your business platform.in

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Market Research and Analysis Consultants conduct comprehensive market research to provide insights into industry trends, consumer behavior, and competitor strategies. Consultants help medium-sized companies identify and implement technology solutions that enhance operations, such as CRM systems, data analytics tools, and e-commerce platforms.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

billion industry by 2021, but its solutions are only as good as the data behind it. That’s why decision makers require spot-on data and efficient, streamlined systems to maintain it. For example, Cisco is a company that also goes by Cisco Systems, Inc. Coordinate communication around industry news and events.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Business development consulting is about helping businesses grow sales and profits in order to achieve their strategic objectives. While breaking into the industry is challenging, aspiring consultants should be careful not oversell their abilities. Being able to implement a business development plan is important.

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

CMS recently introduced changes to its Five-Star Quality Rating System that place greater weight on measures related to patient experience while reducing an emphasis on process measures. The idea behind this bonus payment system is twofold. The post The CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System is Changing. What’s new.

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Makarios Consulting

MAY 17, 2023

Even without the hopefully-once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, upheavals happen in every industry and with every business as markets flux, innovations emerge, economies adjust, competitors advance, and for countless other reasons. Sales were steady and distribution went like clockwork. Why change anything, right?

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. HR consulting, together with strategy consulting, forms the smallest segment of the management consultancy industry, and the number of consultants active in this domain is, therefore, lower than those in other parts of the industry. Conclusion. What is consulting?

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

MAY 26, 2023

From my POV: I look at the type of business model and change to the sales cycle that is necessary to actually fulfill the promise of selling out an entire season. Updated sales efforts that include better practices on opportunity creation, customer management, and selling based on value. This puts pressure on the downside of VUCA.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

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Rick Conlow

APRIL 23, 2023

The negative bottom-line results equal lower customer service, quality, productivity, and sales. The tech industry laid of tens of thousands of people recently. Consider the meatpacking industry. A recent New York Times article, The Power of American Capitalism , lauds the US economic system and how it has grown stronger.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? Call it a Goldilocks quandary: Too little support, and your sales people can’t do their jobs well; too much, and you’re wasting money.

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Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 5, 2022

With a big consumption market, diverse culture, and a developed economic system, the US is a tempting destination for many international businesses. Regardless of industry, businesses investing in United States automatically gain competitive edge therefore, penetrating the US market is an important part of foreign company’s business strategy.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2019

Taiichi Ohno, one of the fathers of the Toyota production system, described three manufacturing evils that companies should avoid: mura (unevenness), muri (overburden), and muda (waste). Next week: sales incentives and volume discounts.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

The company collects thousands of sales leads from the businesses it serves, and it wishes to interact with them in the intimate, personal manner consumers have come to expect. It has earned $20 in new contracts for every dollar it spent on the system. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

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Rick Conlow

APRIL 23, 2023

The negative bottom-line results equal lower customer service, quality, productivity, and sales. The tech industry laid of tens of thousands of people recently. Consider the meatpacking industry. A recent New York Times article, The Power of American Capitalism , lauds the US economic system and how it has grown stronger.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In the manufacturing world, industrial engineers think of the critical path as the bottleneck in a production line. Stated differently, your production line is only as efficient as the weakest link in your system. When you’re managing the sales and marketing efforts of a business, that too is a production line of sorts.

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Harmonious Workplaces

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This group of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology practitioners took turns sharing how they found their way toward our aligned passions of how people think and behave in the workplace. I started working at the age of 16 in 1992 as an industrial cleaner on nights and weekends with my friend Mark.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

Management consulting is an industry that offers assistance with this kind of high-level decision-making and problem-solving. It could be evaluated by tracking sales, calculating savings on operational costs, or counting new customer acquisitions. Consultants also have extensive knowledge in particular industries or topics.

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Tsavo Neal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Traffic + Sales = Monetization. Without traffic, you can’t get sales. Traffic + Sales (for your Product and/or Service) = Monetization. As a “Content Management System”, it’s designed for publishing and managing content. You can’t skip this step. No traffic, no monetization. (If So, you’re generating traffic to your blog.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 29, 2018

But, like any sales pitch, there’s a degree of exaggeration behind the polished smiles. In this post, I explore the other side of the value propositions presented by consulting firms during the recruiting process: “You will be exposed to a wide range of problems and industries”. We have systems in place to protect work-life balance”.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

However, it does indicate the industry’s optimism. Waymo, widely considered to be the industry leader for self-driving vehicles, began testing their driverless taxis in Phoenix back in December and have just announced that they are expanding their fleet. Moreover, it only has permission to test fully driverless cars (i.e.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

During the past five years, industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) has risen exponentially across industries. At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI.

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