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Anyone Can Succeed - Celebrating 15 Years of Consulting Success with Dan Weedin

Consulting Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Dan Weedin is an author, speaker, consultant, coach, podcaster and founder of Toro Consulting , a firm that specializes in small business growth, particularly in the insurance/risk business. Dan Weedin: Well I'd been an insurance broker for pretty much all of my career. So I had been selling insurance but then I started thinking.

Consulting

Consulting Insurance Insurance Methodologies

Supplementing Your Pipeline with Consulting Agencies

Successful Independent Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2017

An agency is different than a consulting firm because agencies usually place one person at a time, and they assume consultants are bringing their own methodology and tools. Some agencies provide access to group health insurance plans, a plus in the U.S. How do they go to market? Faster, easier, cheaper business administration.

Consulting

Consulting Talent Insurance Insurance

Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Then, further training is usually limited to new production introductions or annual “kick-off” meetings to set quotas, where reps are flown in, given information and marching orders, and “fired-up” by a motivational speaker or exercise (more hot coals, anyone?). They don’t need to know how to do those jobs.

Sales

Sales Training Training How To

The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. This shift is long overdue.

Insurance

Insurance Insurance Management Methodologies

Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy.

Data

Data Balance Sheet Enterprise Insurance

How Much Gold Should Someone Own? Where and How To Own It?

MishTalk

JUNE 29, 2014

There is no fixed answer, but rather a general methodology that I like: Do not invest outside your comfort zone. Remember, if you do choose physical possession, you will need theft insurance or some other means of ensuring its safety. Additionally, shares of the Trust are bought and sold at market price, not at net asset value (“NAV”).

How To

How To Methodologies Marketing Insurance

What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Methodologies

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company

Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

Financial

Financial Nonprofit Industry Real Estate

Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace. The latter is crucial.

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Company Case Interview ROI Engineering

Why consulting?

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. market for latex condoms. Recently, Mayer Laboratories sued Church and Dwight, Trojan’s parent company, for illegally monopolizing the market. My group chose to examine the U.S.

Consulting

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering

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

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

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. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Beth Comstock, GE vice chair responsible for creating new businesses, embraced the lean process.

Balance Sheet

Balance Sheet Financial Journal Company

3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn’t One of Them

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

They wanted to switch the basis of its salesforce compensation from raw results to performance relative to the potential of each salesperson’s market. Methodology. The dichotomy continues when it comes to methodology. In response, analysts developed an admirable data envelopment model. A champion-challenger approach.

Methodologies

Methodologies Data Analysis Retail

3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2017

There are numerous other AI products available to business, like IBM’s Watson, or software from emerging vendors. At heart, the algorithms and computation are dedicated to unearthing novel patterns, which is what science, technology, markets, and the humanistic arts have done throughout the story of humankind.

Company

Company Data Training Training

AI Will Change Radiology, but It Won’t Replace Radiologists

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

The FDA requires, and the ACR provides methodologies for, vendors to verify the effectiveness and value of the algorithms before and after they are taken to market. There are substantial medical and productivity benefits to be gained from integrating AI with radiological practice.

Insurance

Insurance Insurance Analysis System

Grossly Distorted Procedures: Mish Proposal to Raise GDP Calculation

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Here''s the question of the day: Does GDP stand for Gross Domestic Product or Grossly Distorted Procedures? Methodological changes, such as counting weapons as an "investment" represents 1.55 Yet, no one counts people raising their own vegetables, a genuine product. Isn''t the product the same? France : Here''s a shocker.

Government

Government Methodologies Report Insurance

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Anyone Can Succeed - Celebrating 15 Years of Consulting Success with Dan Weedin

Supplementing Your Pipeline with Consulting Agencies

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

How Much Gold Should Someone Own? Where and How To Own It?

What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Why consulting?

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

3 Things Are Holding Back Your Analytics, and Technology Isn’t One of Them

3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI

AI Will Change Radiology, but It Won’t Replace Radiologists

Grossly Distorted Procedures: Mish Proposal to Raise GDP Calculation

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