Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Sneak Preview: A few of the ideas I’ll share with you on next week’s webinar: 2023 projects to see a 30% increase in international travel. I’ve worked with over a half dozen of the biggest sports’ brands in the world the last 18 months on some variation of market research. Great, but still behind 2019’s numbers. Why Does This Matter?:

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2018

Daryl Morey took the path less travelled, the path that began with academia and consultancy. But he knew that he wanted to be involved in the sport. Of course, the work is very difficult, and the individuals involved are some of the most talented university graduates around, but it is a well-travelled path.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Once a quarter I get a postcard of upcoming social and sporting events in the city. It seems like a lifetime ago we worked together on the travel card rollout at NetApp. Once a week I get an email with an interactive map showing which homes in the city closed escrow and at what price. Independent consulting is no different.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

Even for such a high travel firm, which we’ll discuss below, they all seem to be so gosh darn chummy with each other. Travel – Now don’t get us wrong, warning a prospective consultant about travel is a bit like warning trainee surgeon that they may see blood once in a while. Financial Services. Healthcare. Heavy Equipment.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 10, 2018

As you make your own decision to pursue consulting and what firms to work at you’re going to have to weigh factors such as traveling requirements, possibly working in industries you aren’t familiar with, and the inevitable steep learning curves. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 13, 2021

Why do you think travel agencies are doing so poorly? In his free time, Till enjoys sports and going out into nature. Does the food manufacturer own its own farmland, or does it buy raw materials from different farmers? This will have a huge impact on the structure of the case. Is the problem at hand a market-wide problem?

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 15, 2015

Sports fans get frustrated by athletes and coaches giving the stock, cliché answers. Neither is my spouse wants to travel, even if true. Sportswriters don’t have to interview him. If the horse could talk and he was interviewed, he’d probably say he just wants to contribute, or go into some boring explanation of hoof technique.

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Claris Consulting

JULY 23, 2019

In my book, 7 Principles of Transformational Leadership I outlined that driving a culture that is the equivalent of a finely tuned sports car requires embracing five high performance mindset shifts. Are you traveling on the autobahn at top speed, or, are you on a two-lane back road driving thirty-five miles per hour? They are: 1.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

For me, this means regular social occasions I previously have been active in like bar trivia or weekday intramural sports will likely be on pause for a while. One of those conversations will be about how we come up with a communication strategy given the strains of consulting travel and long work hours.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

DO follow-up on my replies and build with natural conversation (good topics to mention are sports, food, and travel). He’s also an avid traveller with passion for FinTech, marathon, and blogging. The smoother it is, the better. Huge points if you can find a common topic of interest (hint: LinkedIn search). Poor body language.

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MishTalk

APRIL 15, 2017

Due to their ability to cut travel costs by 60%, shared autonomous electric vehicles (SAEVs) could shift about 25% of miles traveled from private automobiles-—creating enormous benefits for consumers as well as causing major disruption to the automotive industry. I did not count the U-Haul or Fox Motor Sports.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

And neither of you is anywhere near a sporting goods store. One customer might try on shirts without having to travel to the store. A sporting goods store can focus on virtual tryouts of a new tennis racquet, for example, creating a point of differentiation from a mass retailer at which sporting equipment is an afterthought.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

While each office in a firm focuses on specific sectors, consultants often travel cross-country and even internationally to where their respective skillset can be best utilized. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

While this may seem small in absolute terms, it reflects a nearly 30% increase in travel time (the average travel time in our data was about 12 minutes). While our analysis of travel times focused on ambulances, 23% of the patients in our study arrived at the hospital by other means.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2017

I doubt Apple designers will see the market in traditional segments, such as small cars, luxury/sports cars, SUVs, trucks and minivans/vans. Think of the ultimate home office with printers, a desk, and video conference abilities so pharmaceutical reps and traveling sales people don’t have to squat at Panera or Starbucks all day.

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freshminds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Plenty of sports and fun activities being shown here - being part of Deloitte seems like you can be part of a much larger range of activities. Plenty of shots from around the world here, emphasising the international aspects of the company and the travel opportunities that are a major draw to this line of work.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 6, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2018

His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. Kevin Anderson is a graduating medical student at Duke University School of Medicine and will be starting at LEK Consulting later this year. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

On the other hand, were it not already invented, plane travel would be classed as a new form of transport, compared to driving along the highway. What if, for example, customers didn’t need to travel to the store? They vary in shape, size, color, and features, but they’re also all the same — they’re all cars.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 5, 2015

  We extend this to our sports and hobbies and adventures, as well. Financial advisors and travel businesses and everyone in between peddles us the story that if we just team up with them, we’ll get exactly what we expect, that it will all be as we dreamed it to be.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 26, 2014

A parallel is that there are once again quite a few countries that sport large current account deficits and have experienced major credit and asset booms. In short, there are many balloons waiting for a pin.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

One of the nice perks of interviewing with consulting firms is that they will pay or reimburse all travel and lodging expenses. His free moments are spent traveling and enjoying sporting events with his wife and daughter. He’s most passionate about healthcare redesign, patient engagement, and the life sciences.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 11, 2014

It’s instructive to see his evolution from eyeglass wearing nerd to contact lenses and moussed up hair sporting hero of his own thriller. The detail of how and why Snowden went about this is pretty surprising considering how the 29 year old former NSA employee says he wants his own privacy and not to be a celebrity. It’s all very Tom Cruise.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

He wanted to build a sports car, then build a more affordable car with zero emissions. How about families who participate in travel sports leagues for their kids? Elon Musk is having a moment. Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful partnerships that were fueled as much by the alignment of ideas as by creative tension or discord. William Wrigley Jr., Elicit conflict and adversity. Often, an explicit process can help.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

At Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lauren Hobart was promoted from CMO to President, while at KFC, CMO Kevin Hochman became President and Chief Concept Officer. At Airbnb, CMO Jonathan Mildenhall is driving the company’s evolution to an end-to-end travel brand by reinventing “ experiential marketing.”

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

I worked in a company for a long period of time, over 30 years, in various roles so it was like I had moved through various different jobs; traveled all over the world at a very high level position of a global vice president role; 250 people globally working for me, those kind of things. Dave Saliaris : Yeah, pretty interesting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Thus, just as travelers do when booking an airline ticket, theatergoers can check various performances and choose the price that works best for them. Consumers are surrounded by businesses in their daily lives — Uber , Disney , sports teams, Amazon — that blatantly flex prices to be in sync with demand. I doubt it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets.

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