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Project Management: Leverage Data for Better Cost Control 

PM Alliance

Data such as workforce metrics, vendor rates, and material pricing gives your team the necessary background to minimize costs by identifying the right resource mix for each market. You may be able consolidate or eliminate activities, which can simultaneously reduce costs and increase productivity.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

You have to meet them at their point of departure and use your power skills that I'll be sharing in this episode to influence them in a better way. It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Developing a high-performing and agile leadership team to increase performance and profitability

Brimstone Consulting

Through a combination of add-on acquisitions, capital investment, and the integration of three portfolio companies, a leading private equity firm transformed a local artisanal food manufacturer into a national company with a range of products and a portfolio of brands.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

Do not make the mistake of investing heavily in sales enablement tools until you have alignment around and commitment to your target clients , value proposition , success metrics, and go-to-market sales strategies. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Culture. Sales Talent.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business

NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. The plan is to create 10-minute programs; think YouTube meets Netflix. That’s on top of the $750 million that its parent company, WndrCo, has raised for the venture.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.