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Clean Tech Consulting: Adapting to Seize Opportunities

Tom Spencer

By conducting comprehensive assessments of energy consumption, waste management, and carbon emissions, consultants can pinpoint areas with the greatest potential for cost savings and sustainability improvements. Consulting firms can assist by conducting thorough financial modeling and ROI analysis.

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Healthcare Branding: The Need for a Strong & Unique Brand

Tom Spencer

Some factors that make this so difficult include regulatory restrictions, emphasis on ROI, and the increasing number of mergers and acquisitions. For example, hospital management may be excited about the future possibilities that may become available via research and development, but it should emphasize what is available for patients now.

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Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even If You Hate Doing It)

Harvard Business

Can’t see a good ROI. From early roles, leaders are taught to invest where they can generate a positive ROI — results that indicate the contribution of time, talent or money paid off. Sometimes it’s hard to see an immediate ROI on reflection — particularly when compared with other uses of a leader’s time.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. A New Type of Local Partner. The rise of social media has created a new type of local partner: local digital influencers.

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When You Agree to a Networking Meeting But Don’t Know What You’re Going to Talk About

Harvard Business

Contact management systems, such as Contactually , can help you stay organized, or you can do it on your own with calendar reminders. ” Agreeing to a networking meeting without a formal agenda may seem like a waste of time, with little ROI.

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business

Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. I hear these challenges all the time as I work with managers at all levels, particularly in large corporations. Sales isn’t what you do.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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