Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). References: Beswick, C.,

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Culture Leadership Journal Study 52

Management Consulted

JANUARY 22, 2015

He co-founded MobileSuites, an app that puts travel concierge services and hotel information at your fingertips, and which you can (and should) find and sign-up for here. I ended up traveling on a few projects with my friend Basel, an analyst who started the same day that I did. Okay, great. When did that moment happen for you?

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Hotels Oliver Wyman Travel Recruiting 100

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. Thank you, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be here.

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Consulting Productivity Advertising Training 121

Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Consumer Products. Sean Sternbach – Director of Operations – Pet Lodge Pet Resort. Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other. The travel here is tough, and long, and the hours aren’t easy. Turnaround & Restructuring.

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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Those divisions are IT Services, Global Business Services, Outsourcing Services, Training, and Additional Services – because it’s super clear to have an amorphous Additional Services bucket, right? Finance Risk.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Denmark Cancels Trains For Indefinite Period The BBC reports Denmark-Germany Rail Links Suspended Denmark's DSB rail operator said trains to and from Germany had been suspended for an indefinite period because of exceptional passport checks. The fines, however, are hardly punitive.

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Training Training Government Advertising 28

Tom Spencer

MARCH 22, 2015

Tom: PIP appears to offer a broad range of services including Coaching & Training, Operations & Maintenance, as well as Strategy. Tom: What kind of training and mentoring programs does the firm offer for graduates? Tom: What is the firm’s travel model? Potential candidates should expect heavy travel days.

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Recruiting Recruitment Travel Consulting 60

Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2018

Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan. Image: Pexels.

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Resumes Banking Travel Culture 68

Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

Founded in 2003 by two former Deloitte partners, Archstone Consulting specializes in helping companies eliminate operational inefficiencies, cut costs and invest resulting savings back in to the growth of the firm. The practice areas at Archstone Consulting reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Business Strategy.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

McKinsey’s Bay Area operation consists of two offices: San Francisco and Silicon Valley. In addition, BCG hosts combined Training & Development events between the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices to incorporate team-building across offices and engage them in learning together. The firm was ranked No.

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Consulting Bain Deloitte Healthcare 113

Management Consulted

AUGUST 7, 2016

In short, Kash subscribes to the philosophy that demand in the market should come first before a product or service is offered, instead of creating a product or offering a service and then trying to gin up demand. This includes market research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, as well as strategic product alteration and branding.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is an organization that's bigger than a solo operation, but it almost certainly involves everyone reporting to the boss. Fellow travelers: This is a group of people with similar goals, approaches and perceptions. The good news is that it's possible to train people to see and to care. This group is led more than managed.

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Small Business Management Travel Talent 20

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A year after graduation, my rugby career started to show promise and I quit my analyst job to focus on training and competing. This provided me with a steady income, a flexible schedule to travel and train and also helped me tap into my “inner entrepreneur” (I have started three businesses since this experience).

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Interviews Consulting Government Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Household Products. BTS GROUP KEY STATS. Manufacturing. Technology.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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Sales Education Training Training 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

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ROI Operations Enterprise Research 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. The company says it will seek to offer unmanned cabs to users including travelers from overseas and locals in areas where buses and trains are not available. It's just a test, but it won't take five years for live operation.

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Transportation Journal Travel Operations 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

.” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. A study by scientists at Advanced Brain Monitoring also found that being in flow cut the time it took to train novice marksmen up to an expert level in half. Some Things Are Worth Fighting For.

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Productivity Study Meeting McKinsey 53

Management Consulted

JUNE 12, 2016

With 27 offices worldwide, Parthenon-EY is still a new venture, although it is has gained decent market share in the 2 years it has been operational. The practice areas at Parthenon-EY reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm. Consumer Products. Diversified Industrial Products. Practice Areas.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview Bain 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

However, they tend to have an intense lifestyle with lots of travel, face-to-face engagements, and long hours as a result. If you are interested in a career with a lot of travel, this could be a good place for you. Hours, though flexible, can still be long, and travel is a weekly reality. Employee Satisfaction. Career Growth.

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Oliver Wyman Boston Consulting Group Consulting Bain 81

Seth Godin Blog

JULY 7, 2016

The assembly line was king, and the cruel logic of commodity economics pushed industrialists to improve productivity. So, the computer: First, if you (the owner of the means of production, the boss, the industrialist) can find a supplier who can make a part for less, you will, and you did. And the network? That’s truly unlikely.

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Training Training Government Tools 37

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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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

This firm was birthed out of the frustration they both felt with their employer, who they believed devoted too much time to operational issues while neglecting strategic analysis. Operational Strategy. Industrial Products. However, operations projects are focused on the client’s site. Business Unit Strategy.

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Interviews Culture Strategy Strategy 100

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

This simple idea — that one should match the skill level of the individual to the skill requirements of a task — has influenced how many businesses operate. His solution was to hire village women with high-school diplomas and train them for two years to work as “midlevel ophthalmic paramedics.” Further Reading.

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Transportation Training Training Examples 35

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. Product and Service Innovation. Operations and Logistics. Consumer Products. Organization and Change.

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Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Nowadays, when a multitude of businesses are confronted with the leap from “dumb” products to creating smart, connected ones , and cities and regions are trying to make the leap from manufacturing to services, relying too heavily on past successes will only lock those clusters in the past.

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Education Pharmaceuticals Industry Exercises 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Our flagship products are wood-burning stoves that generate electricity from fire while reducing toxic smoke emissions by 90%. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. Handi shop customers had never seen a product like ours.

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Sales Marketing Development Retail 28

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2016

According to him, his business nearly collapsed early in the year when he could not access the foreign exchange market to import the raw materials required for his paint production. As one travels from Nairobi to Lagos and from Dakar to Kigali, a feeling of optimistic exuberance emerges because African-inspired institutions are forming.

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Intellectual Property Government Banking Software 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

Both the Boston and New York offices work in conjunction with industries across the northeast regions in area such as telecommunications, financial services, private equity, e-commerce, consumer products, and healthcare, among others. McKinsey Boston is a NE underdog, but there are still many reasons to choose it.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Seek out what’s not working: The old adage says that bad news doesn’t travel up.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2017

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. use travel time to connect with team members and establish an open-door policy). As with many workplaces, BCG has traditionally operated according to male communication norms.

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Talent Development Handbook Survey 38

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). Retail & Consumer Products. FTI CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. FTI Consulting has a board of 9 directors. Real Estate.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2016

Gopman’s first step was to conceive and create a product to solve the problem, a set of “I love SF” wristbands. Nobody can truly understand the ecosystem they operate in without getting out and wading in it. It’s a mindset that very few big companies and individuals have, but need.

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Energy Operations Meeting Healthcare 28

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. We work with a lot of really cool clients.

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Confessions of a Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Initially launched as a war against non-value-added activity, GE trained all staff in the removal of non-productive processes and the overall programme was labelled Workout. Some of the German discount supermarkets are now travelling this route. Disallow game playing.

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