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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Bring business cards and eBooks/white papers if you have them. Your marketing messages and tactics still need to be grounded on how to offer a solution to THEIR wants and needs.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Bring business cards and eBooks/white papers if you have them. Your marketing messages and tactics still need to be grounded on how to offer a solution to THEIR wants and needs.

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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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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. In contrast, Molly’s network was concentrated mainly within cleaning products.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. In response to Ries’s book , GE adopted lean methods and built its Fastworks program around them. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 of the company.