Emerson Consulting Group

JUNE 10, 2021

What a company does (mission), why they do it (purpose), and how they fulfill the mission (strategy) are informed by the vision. Strategy defines the organization’s path from the current environment to a future state, from today’s reality to aspirations for tomorrow, with vision as the target.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It's a consequence of an intentional positioning strategy, which I will explain to you in this video. I am so excited to share with you my secret strategies around how you position yourself as a strategic partner. I was super excited, and I had this opportunity to be an internal consultant for a nonprofit organization.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 26, 2010

The systems vantage point is the whole operation within its environment operating within a steady state, which keeps it viable. Management is always across boundaries. Add to all this, is a very important principle of open systems: managing the polarities of the simultaneous need for both differentiation and integration.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 16, 2020

Having a clear direction and strategy for your career early on can grant you amazing advantages, but so can keeping your options open and exploring the opportunities offered by consulting. ’ In addition to industry specific knowledge, consulting equips you with highly transferable business and management skills. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2019

Khan Academy is an online global education nonprofit launched by Sal Khan with the audacious mission to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.”

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MishTalk

AUGUST 2, 2014

The nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliate blames higher health costs that are a result of attracting older adults this year who previously lacked coverage and are using more services than expected. Florida does not operate its own exchange. percent for its Affordable Care Act exchange plans next year, company officials say.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 29, 2014

The system is dysfunctional and arbitrary due to these outdated laws that handcuff school administrators from operating in a fashion that protects children and their right to quality education," attorney Theodore Boutrous of the education advocacy group Students Matter said in a media call. Molesters pay dues, kids don''t.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Although this is my third time going through merger negotiations as an IED, I'm not one who is a default cheerleader for mergers, or who would ever say anything like, "There's too many nonprofits." On the contrary, I love having a vital marketplace of nonprofits, large and small, competing to make our communities better places to live.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

The most relevant, realistic and flexible strategies to address those priorities are developed and implemented from the active participation of members. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Facilitation is the most powerful role from which to cultivate that participation.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Thanks to several comments from readers of that segment, let’s say it was ‘Marg’, one of the women around the fire in the cave who stepped forward and made the suggestions regarding longer spears and a better strategy, the first ‘socio-tech’ intervention.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

understands both hiring math and competitive strategy when it comes to filling entry-level jobs in its 3,000-plus Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy stores. The strategy offers them a rare trifecta: It’s good for the company, youth, and society. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2018

For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM field s — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. How did they do it?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

These, in turn, led to further support from Breakout Labs, a nonprofit fund by supported the Thiel Foundation, and later on to an SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation. All of our early funding came from either nonprofit or government sources.” ” Finding a “Hair On Fire” Use Case.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

But by writing and publishing smaller “chunks” of what might eventually become a full book is one strategy for making things a whole lot easier. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

After many years as Executive Director for a regional non-profit, Christina created Sage Strategies, a management consulting firm (www.SageStrategies.org). The firm specializes in strategic planning, board development, financial management, program planning and evaluation and grants management. An old non-profit.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Organizations, whether businesses or nonprofits, almost universally pursue growth. In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. Thirty percent said that growth was more important than anything else.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We propose a four-pronged strategy to help retailers reduce food waste as it occurs in food farming and food production, in the stores themselves, and during consumption. Advancements in automation and software capabilities have made inventory management scalable across more SKUs and product types. Team up with consumers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers. It’s a start.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. So it’s natural for employees, even at the highest levels, to occasionally hold back opinions and feelings that they fear might contradict or irritate the boss.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 21, 2010

Regular readers of this blog know that I've been involved in two successful nonprofit mergers, as well as a third attempt that was never consummated, and I've written several blog posts on my feelings about nonprofit mergers. Are there any times when you advise against a merger or alliance? Tom McLaughlin: Oh, sure, absolutely.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? polarity management). The leader then needed people below them (read ‘managers’) who did the organizing and controlling. For More Resources About Organization Development, see These Free Management Library Topics: Organizational Change. Consulting.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I once served on the board of a nonprofit with a group of men and women I deeply admired. Too many management articles — including many I’ve written — serve to comfort those afflicted by the misdeeds of others. “Do you prefer Lynda’s debt strategy or Cal’s equity fund?” It was Camelot.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Here are some strategies to employ. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. Say, for instance, your dismissal was due to a personality clash with your manager or a mismatched cultural fit. Understand what happened. ” Keep it short and upbeat.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

The Vergara lawsuit was backed by Students Matter, a nonprofit educational policy advocacy group funded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch. Then there were the so-called “rubber rooms” of New York City, which operated until 2010.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 3, 2018

We do that with taking a hard look at their operations, helping them streamline, optimize and choose the right technology to support those operations. How were they taking advantage of this concept of building relationships using information to strengthen your relationships with your constituents in the nonprofit sector?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. Managers working in this context can be forgiven for thinking that their job is simply to finish making something. And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. The project may be “done.” Defining Done as Successful.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While it sometimes seems that everyone wants to get into the top 3 strategy consulting firms McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Bain & Company (Bain), also known as MBB , it's worth noting that there are several other top consulting firms that can give a career a real boost. PricewaterhouseCoopers (Strategy&).

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The use of a consultant as interim brings additional industry experience to the table in guiding the board through the strategy setting and transition process. In only one situation was I asked to investigate, and then implement, a plan for bankruptcy and an orderly shut down of operations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

Lee is accused of donating $36 million to nonprofit foundations operated by a friend of the former president in return for political favors. Following the arrest of Lee Jae-yong, Samsung decided to disband its Future Strategy Office , considered the family’s most loyal body — and that’s a good start.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

Spending to maintain the transportation system we have would seem to be an essential part of any strategy to keep traffic from getting worse. Down the line, automation will allow buses to operate like virtually linked trains at a fraction of the cost of rail. This would be particularly attractive as suburban conduits to major airports.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most think banks are part of an elite establishment that’s lost sight of the broader mission to serve customers and would prefer they operate more like nonprofits. It no longer makes sense for banks to be run and operated exclusively by career bankers.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

nonprofit organizations like the Heartland Capital Strategy Institute are bringing together institutional investors, private asset managers, and worker representatives to harness some of the $13 trillion of assets in workers’ pension funds to invest in worker-friendly businesses that offer good investment returns.

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MishTalk

MAY 20, 2015

Businesses and nonprofit groups with 25 or fewer employees would have until 2021 — an extra year — to comply. Some nonprofits that train and rehabilitate disadvantaged workers, such as the homeless or former gang members, could also take advantage of the extension. In immediate response, Borderlands Books announced it would close.

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