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Location, Location: Choosing the Right Office for You

Tom Spencer

From office specialties and resources to choosing a desirable place to live, this should not be a five-minute decision. As for management consulting, specialties might include strategy, supply chain, or operations. Factor 2: Office Resources. Another factor to consider is the resources located in that specific office or city.

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The Price is Right: Decoding the Art of Product Pricing

Tom Spencer

Moreover, there are many misconceptions about pricing, with internet resources advocating one strategy over another without regard to differing company circumstances. For instance, airlines typically try to practice price discrimination by charging higher prices for business travelers and lower prices for tourists.

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An Overview of Business Development Consulting

Tom Spencer

It is a waste of resources communicating with random strangers who can’t be helped or who can’t afford to pay. This means coordinating many parties and resources in collaboration with other consultants. The important part is finding potential customers who have problems that your client can solve.

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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. Operations Consultants: Operations consultants are consultants who help clients improve the performance of their operations.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. It’s not easy to come up with a simple definition of what we do.

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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Getting an Intricate Operation Back in Sync

Harvard Business

Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Service increasingly was hit or miss, and Forbes Travel Guide issued a preliminary rating that would have docked the restaurant a star. Operations in a Connected World. And something was wrong.