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Consulting 101: Operations, Hierarchies, and Types of Firms

Tom Spencer

Learning how consulting firms operate can help you better understand what you would do as an analyst. These firms have international presence, wide knowledge bases, and reputations of success across many industries. How do Consulting Firms Work? Imagine you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 business in the technology industry.

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Risky Business: ChatGPT in the Workplace

Kraft Kennedy

When you enter something into ChatGPT, it becomes part of the global ChatGPT knowledge base. Wondering how you can safeguard your operations against AI risk? While AI platforms such as ChatGPT are transforming the way we communicate, learn, and do business, they also pose major security risks.

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Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey

Business Consulting Agency

Determine the Business Model and Structure Choose a suitable business model and structure that aligns with your long-term goals, financial resources, and operational capabilities. Build meaningful relationships with your target audience and establish a customer-centric approach that fosters enduring brand loyalty and consumer satisfaction.

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5 Benefits of Internal Strategy vs Consulting

Tom Spencer

However, extensive energy can be spent learning the political dynamics, internal processes, and even standard operating procedures for software tools. I joined consulting to learn new things constantly, but over time I also realized I wanted to gain depth rather than persistently add breadth to my knowledge base.

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Consultant Marketing Listen or Lead?

Jerry Fletcher

The length of time a consultancy has been operating makes a difference as does the size of client. They are expected to bring that proficiency to bear on client’s problems that fit nicely into their knowledge base. The requirement to understand a prospect’s operations will continue. Yes and no. Ask and Choose.

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Embracing Healthy Tensions in a Matrixed Organization

Kates Kesler

long term vs short term investments, M&A activity, enterprise vs operating unit accountability). And it will mean getting comfortable with influence derived from sources other than positional power, such as a decision right that is tipped one way or another for key operating issues or budget control that is granted to a new unit/function.2

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

Kates Kesler

It typically is a set of roles at the center and dedicated or aligned roles in the operating units. We worked with a large oil and gas company with operations spread across North America. Those on the team that were based in the field worried about solutions that they couldn’t afford or would be “one size fits none.” An Example.

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