62 Valuing nature conservation
McKinsey
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
A methodology to evaluate where safeguarding natural capital could have the biggest impact on climate, economies and health. Insights on Sustainability
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PRINCE2® and PMBOK®
Gina Abudi
JULY 17, 2013
Project Management managing projects PMBOK® PMI PRINCE2™ project framework project methodology projects The Message in the Mention Guest post by Ronn Faigen, © Copyright 2013 Ronn Faigen is the General Manager for APMG-US, part of APMG International, a global accreditation and qualifications organization. In this capacity, Ronn is responsible for increasing the awareness and adoption of internationally recognized best practices, among them PRINCE2®, Managing Successful Programs [.].
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Why zero-based budgeting makes sense again
McKinsey
JANUARY 5, 2018
Advanced digitization, enhanced behavioral understanding, and smarter organizational and governance models spark a renaissance for a decades-old methodology. Our Insights
Perspectives on the future of space exploration
McKinsey
JULY 10, 2017
Five leaders from industry, academia, and business outline the realities of sending new technologies, research methodologies, and business models into orbit. Our Insights
Ops 4.0: Fueling the next 20 percent productivity rise with digital analytics
McKinsey
APRIL 20, 2017
Thanks to innovations in digitization and analytics, four new methodologies can yield the productivity breakthroughs organizations need. Business needs to raise productivity more than ever. Our Insights
How retailers can improve price perception—profitably
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
New methodologies, powered by big data and advanced analytics, can help retailers attract value-conscious consumers without sacrificing margins. Our Insights
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Strategy Implementation: How to Execute on Your Plans
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
JULY 23, 2020
This article explains a methodology to overcome this challenge. Many companies create a strategic plan every year. When done correctly, these plans layout goals for the company for the following 12 months. Unfortunately, oftentimes companies don’t realize their goals.
The Heart of Value Propositions - What You Really Offer Clients
Consulting Matters
JANUARY 12, 2021
It is for this reason, as we go about our work as consultants, coaches and other personal providers, the primary instrument we bring to our work is not our techniques, methodologies or even our expertise.
Want a High-Performance Team? Get Clarity and Alignment First!
Strategic Planning and Management Insights
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Our Aligned Strategy Development methodology will take your team through all aspects of creating a strategic plan. Having a strategic planning meeting is important because it will help you generate two things among your team members: clarity and alignment. You start by assessing where you are now, followed by looking at where you're going, all while engaging your people throughout the process.
IMC USA 2017 Conference Open for Registration!
IMC USA
MARCH 15, 2017
IMC USA’s Conference team has been working hard to plan the best programs and networking so that you can learn new approaches and methodologies, meet other consultants, and grow your practice. IMC USA conferences include consulting industry thought leaders and motivational keynote speakers, breakout sessions on building and managing your consulting practice, leading edge methodologies and tools for success, as well as great networking and entertainment at the conference banquet.
The Core of Your Consulting Selling Conversation
David A Fields
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Talking about processes and methodologies are important, but take a back seat. “Pointing out the Benefits of Your Consulting Services Shouldn’t Be the Centerpiece of Your Dialogue” That tweet received a lot of attention when I tweeted it, so I thought I’d expand on it slightly, and invite the community to comment. As savvy consultants, we’ve reached the stage where we know we should be talking about the results, benefits and value we generate.
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Are consultants finally taking their own digital medicine?
The Source
AUGUST 10, 2020
For many years now, consultants have been talking about the dangers of falling behind in the digital arms race—while they themselves remained wedded to more or less the same project tools and methodologies that have been commonplace since the very earliest days of the industry.
There's More to Earnings than Earnings per Share
Strategy+Business
MARCH 5, 2018
But most companies don't have a methodology or process for measuring this kind of ROI. The key is to develop a robust valuation methodology, apply it using sophisticated optimization tools, and create a comprehensive governance process to support the efforts Earnings per share is only half the equation for profits. It matters how effectively you allocate capital -- how you invest in equipment or R&D -- and the returns you get on those investments.
When Top-Down Change Isn’t Working, Hand the Keys to Frontline Staff
BCG
JUNE 8, 2017
Article Thursday, June 08, 2017 The World Bank turned to agile methodologies, implemented from the bottom up, to improve operational efficiency and employee satisfaction. Operations head Kyle Peters describes the challenges and successes. Article
Consulting Mental Math
Management Consulting Prep
APRIL 20, 2020
With this Mental Math methodology, you will suddenly find yourselves with a lot more time, which can be used for valuable substance, content, or … Consulting Mental Math Read More » The post Consulting Mental Math appeared first on MConsultingPrep. Consulting Math Consulting Mental Math Up to half of the workload during case interviews, McKinsey PST, and BCG Potential Test is MATH. Saving time in this area directly translates to performance!
5 Shifts to Instantly Increase Your Consulting Success and Impact
Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
It's not about delivering a methodology. You don't sell methodologies; you offer problem-solving support that transforms those problems into catalysts for growth. They will often bring you in with a clearly defined "ask" for a particular methodology because it feels safer to them than admitting they, as a seasoned leader, have a problem that they don't know the solution to. The cold, hard facts about the consulting profession is that most change efforts fail.
I’m Not from the IRS and I AM Here to Help You
Alan Weiss
OCTOBER 30, 2020
For people to create successful consulting careers, they have to have an affinity to help others by proactively engaging with them, not merely an off-the-shelf methodology to sell and make some money. It’s stunning how many people go into consulting who don’t feel comfortable approaching people to offer help. Why else are you here?
How to Confidently Articulate the Value of What You Do
Consulting Matters
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
What you do isn't the same as your methodologies or tools. They are not enamored by your personality assessments, your coaching approach or any other your methodologies because they don't hire you for those. Clients will come to you all the time with requests for certain methodologies. It's not that they are dying for those methodologies. It's the transformation that they envision those methodologies will create for them.
2018 Management Consultants Conference Takes Place in San Diego October 5-7
IMC USA
MAY 29, 2018
A diverse line-up of keynote speakers will provide thought leadership on management consulting methodologies and skill development, business development and consulting practice management. The Conference includes three workshops, several breakout sessions, three general sessions, an interactive Q&A session called The Talk Show, networking with other consultants, and exhibits of various technologies, tools and methodologies geared to consultants. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. —
Consultants’ Conference Features Innovative Open Space Technology
IMC USA
AUGUST 29, 2019
Consult-Con 2019 includes two days of thought-provoking, interactive sessions led by top-notch speakers as well as peer-to-peer learning opportunities, networking and exhibits that feature tools and methodologies to help consultants build and maintain a successful consulting practice. Consultants’ Conference Features Innovative Open Space Technology. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
179: Clarissa Silva—Ready To Find Love In A Whole New Way?
On the Brink Podcast
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Based on an algorithm she created, this "first-ever disruptive relationship technique" helps people find their significant other, husband, wife, partner, through a methodology that really works. Learn how you can really, really find your soul mate! This is a podcast that everyone should pay attention to. Our guest is Clarissa Silva, the founder of Your Happiness Hypothesis (H20) Method.
The origin of assets
The Source
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Puny products and mutant methodologies will be discarded, beaten in the race of commercial life by a new generation of clinically-crafted tools. It’s tempting, oh so tempting, to ascribe some type of Darwinian process to the way in which consulting firms productise their services.
Real Male Earnings Below 1973 Level: Median Household Income Improvement Entirely Due to Rising Female Earnings
MishTalk
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
The Census Bureau report Income and Poverty in the US 2016 shows real household income in the US hit a new record high of $59,039 in 2016 thanks to a methodology change and rising incomes of women. Real, inflation adjusted, earnings of men are below where they were in 1973. more…). Economics
Consult-Con 2019 Conference to Open with Million Dollar Consulting Author Alan Weiss
IMC USA
JULY 16, 2019
Consult-Con 2019 includes two days of thought-provoking, interactive sessions led by top-notch speakers as well as peer-to-peer learning opportunities, networking and exhibits that feature tools and methodologies to help consultants build and maintain a successful consulting practice. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. July 9, 2019 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) is pleased to announce that Alan Weiss Ph.D.,
COVID-19 as a prism of change in the consulting industry
The Source
APRIL 6, 2020
In a classic example of the scientific methodology in action, he then passed the rainbow through a second prism and back into white light, showing that light wasn’t lost or gained but changed by the prism. As the many people who read, listen and watch our material know, we’ve been giving a lot of thought over the last 2-3 weeks to how we can understand and track the impact of COVID-19 on the global consulting industry during the course of 2020.
Save the Date for ConsultCon 2019 in Dallas, Oct. 4-6
IMC USA
APRIL 10, 2019
Consult-Con 2019 will focus heavily on interactive, peer-to-peer learning opportunities valued by its members, including a mix of general and breakout sessions and roundtables, networking with other consultants, and exhibits of relevant technologies, tools and methodologies.
Struggling with writing website copy? Here's my tips to spark your clarity
Consulting Matters
AUGUST 26, 2020
Or a big thing that we have, consultants, coaches, all of us, is that we have this methodology. We have this Six Sigma process or this particular coaching methodology that we love. We have this methodology. We love our methodology.
Consult-Con 2018 Features Former FBI Agent John Iannarelli
IMC USA
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
It includes three workshops, several breakout sessions, three general sessions, an interactive Q&A session called The Talk Show, networking with other consultants, and exhibits of various technologies, tools and methodologies geared to consultants. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Dr. Tony Alessandra Opens Consult-Con 2018 with Strategic Business Development for Consultants
IMC USA
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
It includes three workshops, several breakout sessions, three general sessions, an interactive Q&A session called The Talk Show, networking with other consultants, and exhibits of various technologies, tools and methodologies geared to consultants. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The High Speed Lane
Alan Weiss
MAY 14, 2020
The offer to merely help, without talking about “projects” or methodology or fees, stimulates a substantive conversation.
13 Things a Prospect Must Know About Your Service Before They Buy
The More Clients Blog
OCTOBER 16, 2020
What are your underlying methodologies? Every service or program utilizes various methodologies or approaches to get the desired results. Let’s say you have a professional service that is very powerful, it really delivers the results your clients are looking for.
My Newsletter Returns to Weekly Edition
The More Clients Blog
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Once I create a new marketing model or methodology I then try to “break the model.”. Well, after the experiment of sending out my eZine daily for the past month, I’ve decided to go back to the tried and true weekly edition on Tuesdays.
Advance Notice: Subtract 0.2 Percentage Points From GDP Report
MishTalk
APRIL 28, 2017
Of course, GDP is already one of the most revised stats, but this quarter estimate may be particularly bad due to methodology changes not implemented in time. Whatever the GDP report shows Friday morning, it’s likely to be on the high side by 0.2 percentage points. more…). Economics
7 Traits that Make You Instantly Credible with Senior Leaders
Consulting Matters
JANUARY 17, 2020
implementing a methodology.). You don’t need masters’ degree or unique certifications to break into corporate consulting or coaching. You also don’t need to become some marketing guru to land work with the C-Suite. Instead, if you want to start finding and landing executive advisory assignments with high-level leaders, you need to cultivate the following attributes that they find the most valuable. Business Acumen.
Please Hold and Listen to Horrid Music While We Pretend to Find Ms. Jones
Alan Weiss
AUGUST 4, 2019
How simple or difficult are your methodology and systems? The more complex we make things in the name of high technology, the more difficult they are to use: hotel phone systems, big screen TVs, car dashboards, cable boxes, airplane entertainment systems. You have to wade through countless menus or consult manuals the size of War and Peace. (My My cars’ owners manuals weight several pounds and are impossible to quickly consult.).
Anyone Can Succeed - Celebrating 15 Years of Consulting Success with Dan Weedin
Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Dan Weedin: Well and I bet most of your clients are experts on the methodology. And you and I have spoken about this in the past; the methodology. It's a completely different skill set than the methodology.
A Great offsite facilitator
Consultants' Consultant
JANUARY 1, 2018
The methodologies used by a great offsite facilitator gets a clear outcome and brief from the client then runs the off-site interactively and iteratively does a needs […]. Consultants Consultant: The qualities of a great offsite facilitator are many and varied. When you are looking for a great facilitator, here’s some things you may want to take into account.
How Much Should I Charge for my Consulting Services?
Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Get clear on your pricing philosophy : Contrary to what you have heard, your price isn't determined by the market rate for your methodology or your expertise. One of the most important questions both new and seasoned consultants MUST answer is: "How much should I charge for my consulting services?". What your charge and your pricing philosophy determines both your earning potential AND your labor intensity.
How Much Should I Charge for my Consulting Services?
Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Get clear on your pricing philosophy : Contrary to what you have heard, your price isn't determined by the market rate for your methodology or your expertise. One of the most important questions both new and seasoned consultants MUST answer is: "How much should I charge for my consulting services?". What your charge and your pricing philosophy determines both your earning potential AND your labor intensity.
Why Do Management Consulting Firms Hire MBAs?
Steve Shu Consulting
OCTOBER 8, 2017
An MBA training provide consultants with some minimum common business language, culture, methodologies, and skills that they can use in the field. Prior to my current role, I spent many years in the traditional management consulting space. As I see it, the traditional segment of the management consulting industry values MBAs primarily because it facilitates a plug-and-play kind of model where people are interchangeable and can start working on a broad swathe of business problems.
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