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Unleashing Business Potential: Benefits of Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Startups: Navigating the Path to Success Benefits: Startups often operate in a high-risk environment where every decision can be make-or-break. Business consulting services offer specialized guidance to navigate challenges, streamline operations, and accelerate growth.

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We REALLY Need to Stop Talking About Lean

Markovitz Consulting

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about Larry Culp’s efforts to turn around faltering General Electric. As the WSJ explains: " Hoshin Kanri holds that all workers should understand the company’s strategy and how their role can contribute to it, enabling feedback and improvement to come up from lower levels." Consider hoshin kanri.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

The Wall Street Journal and others recently reported about an accounting expert who had predicted the Madoff Ponzi scheme and recently went after GE for what he said are their deceptive accounting practices (of course, GE responded this person didn’t know what he was talking about).

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7 Data-Driven Characteristics of Teams that make Better Decisions

Organizational Talent Consulting

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations. References: Bartlett, R.

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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business

While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc bills their new strategy as “the future of journalism,” but if anything it their shiny new digital strategy seems mired in the recent past. The Downside of Data.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

Similarly, Facebook doesn’t specialize in purveying journalism, even though almost every news company posts articles on Facebook. It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations leading to reduced costs and increased revenue. Journal of Political Economy. Collins, J.