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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

Consider what’s happened with travel: With the explosion of internet travel sites in the 2000s, consumers took charge of their own travel, and travel agencies hemorrhaged business. According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015.

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5 Benefits of Internal Strategy vs Consulting

Tom Spencer

I would never have been able to enter an internal strategy role had I not paid my dues at a major consulting firm and proven myself by getting promoted and securing quality references. However, extensive energy can be spent learning the political dynamics, internal processes, and even standard operating procedures for software tools.

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Organizational structure for remote teams

Asamby Consulting

Nevertheless, remote work allows companies to reduce their costs such as rent, which leads to a positive impact towards the environment by reducing greenhouse gas emissions when employees no longer need to travel to work. Tall structure is normally seen in public sector organizations or big companies where bureaucracy is in its nature.

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Consultant Ninja: Classic Consulting Quotes: Management.

Consultant Ninja

I think I have a pretty solid idea of the "type" of chart that he is referring to. You HAVE to do a classic consultant ninja analysis of this report, published by the US Travel Association! Joel on Software. I'd say a similar slide with bogus info. October 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM. Joseph Greiner. Maya Grinberg.

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Attended vs. Unattended RPA: It Doesn’t Need to be an Either-Or

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Robotic process automation, or RPA, which uses automated tools and software to complete repetitive and simple manual tasks, is quickly gaining popularity in both front and back offices. In short, it refers to bots that imitate human tasks. And deployment of RPA software “bots” typically has minimal, if any, disruption to organizations.

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New Technologies in the Insurance Landscape (Part 3 – Cloud)

Tom Spencer

The cloud – which refers to storing, managing, and processing data via a network of remote servers instead of locally on a server or personal computer – is quickly becoming a critical source for innovation. He’s also an avid traveller with passion for FinTech, marathon, and blogging. Image: Pexels.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in San Francisco

Management Consulted

Before we begin, for those of you who do not know the layout of the Bay Area well; here is a little geography lesson – The San Francisco, California Bay area is also commonly referred to as the Bay Area region on the west coast of United States, comprised of about 8 million people.