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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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.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 12, 2015

Tom: North Highland offers a range of solutions including Data and Analytics, Managed Services, Operating Efficiency Ratio, People and Change, Professionalising IT, Social Insights Lab and Strategy and Advisory. Tom: What kind of training and mentoring can graduates expect to receive at North Highland?

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. You won’t succeed without having a firm grasp on numbers, markets, analytics, economies of scale and much, much more.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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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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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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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. one of the lowest in the nation.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 7, 2016

When you can train a CNC machine or a spreadsheet to do a job better than a person can, odds are you will. Either you are working on spec to create a commodity, or you are using new tools to create disruptions and to establish yourself as the linchpin , the one we can’t easily live without. And the network? That’s truly unlikely.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Facebook runs security engagement programs year-round, but the most important tool in our arsenal is Hacktober, an annual, monthlong tradition each October designed to build and maintain a security-conscious culture. And what tools or tactics can your team deploy to address these threats? Is it phishing? Weak passwords?

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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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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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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. Yeah, sure. I was the best student my instructors had.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

These cases clearly point to the importance of understanding how platform-employers operate, and how work is structured within semi-automated, algorithmic management systems. Uber’s training, for example, say that 5-star drivers provide phone chargers or bottled water. Uber drivers interact with the platform.

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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. Performance data is shared with the workforce. Disallow game playing.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 9, 2023

I will also share the practical tips and tools that have helped me bounce-back from burnout. Ask yourself these three questions: As it relates to pure exhaustion, on a scale of 1-5 where one is “I’m operating on fumes. That's why I want to share my journey of recovery and reinvention! The first step is C for compassion. (C

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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. Fortune 500 and over 30 of the Global Fortune 100 among its clientele.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The cloud is also a common repository for the collection and analysis of new data, and the place where an increasing number of artificial intelligence operations, like image and speech recognition, are conducted.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 27, 2015

My best friend and traveling companion, Lawson, was sporting – she’d studied Spanish for 10 years and was confident, conversational and even funny in the language. And I didn’t know how to operate. We went into dump villages to train people on business in Guatemala. I didn’t have to please anyone else.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

During a recent visit to the Managing Service Operations course I teach to MBA students at Harvard Business School , McDonald reflected on the lessons he had learned at VA and their significance for service transformation both inside and outside the public sector. ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Institute on-the-job training. Since then, layoffs have become a common tool for public companies. Laura Schneider for HBR. Work to constantly improve quality and productivity.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2014

The two time-tested investment tools, value (P/E ratios and P/B ratios) and price momentum, are now much more heavily used and not so reliable as they once were, say from 1977 to 1997. Education and training are the keys to increasing wealth on a sustainable basis and the U.S. Stay an extra day and golf or travel.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

You’ll also be able to use it as a networking tool — everyone loves to feature their insights and expertise publically. What’s great about speaking at a web conference is that you don’t have to travel — and neither does your audience. As a consultant, your email list is your most powerful marketing tool.

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