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  • Consulting Proposals: Establishing Your Value to the Project

    Business Consulting Buzz
    Michael Zipursky
    23 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    Under almost every circumstance a consultant should not be charging clients on an hourly basis. If you’ve been reading any of my articles relating to consulting fees over the last several years you know that already. As I coach and …CONTINUE READING »Consulting Proposals: Establishing Your Value to the Project is a post from: Business Consulting Buzz

  • Troy Peterson Named a Booz Allen Fellow

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    15 May 2013 | 7:00 am
    Booz Allen Hamilton has named Senior Associate Troy Peterson a Fellow in the firm's Functional Skills Belting program, which recognizes deep subject matter expertise.

  • BCG’s legacy of creativity – critical insights for BCG consulting interview candidates

    Management Consulted
    Nina Natina
    15 May 2013 | 7:57 pm
    Boston Consulting Group Since its inception, BCG has been a thought leader in business strategy. The firm enjoys bragging rights to a long line of CEOs, partners, and senior consultants who have been major voices in the grand scheme of management consulting. For decades, BCG founder Bruce Henderson wowed the world with his mind-altering insights and perspectives on keeping business growing through the world’s ever-changing economic environment. You may be familiar with the BCG-matrix? First published in 1968, the hugely popular “growth-share matrix” – a simple chart…

  • Nanotechnology in food : Emerging issues and potential uses

    Deloitte US
    21 May 2013 | 4:32 am
    What is nanotechnology? What comes to mind when you think about nanotechnology? As a food manufacturer, would you be willing to use nanotechnology to make your food? The potential benefits of using nanotechnology are vast and far-reaching, but potential issues and unknowns still remain.

  • Booz Allen Hamilton Announces Fourth Quarter And Full Year Fiscal 2013 Results

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    22 May 2013 | 4:00 am
    Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (NYSE:BAH), the parent company of management and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., today announced preliminary results for the fourth quarter and full year of its fiscal 2013 with a modest decline in full-year revenue and solid improvements in fiscal 2013 adjusted earnings.
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  • Nanotechnology in food : Emerging issues and potential uses

    21 May 2013 | 4:32 am
    What is nanotechnology? What comes to mind when you think about nanotechnology? As a food manufacturer, would you be willing to use nanotechnology to make your food? The potential benefits of using nanotechnology are vast and far-reaching, but potential issues and unknowns still remain.

  • The dating game: Partnerships for the future

    21 May 2013 | 4:24 am
    In the U.S. and around the globe, economies are struggling to recover, leaving governments to find ways to do more with less. Some may likely call this a challenge. Instead, it is an opportunity - indeed a call to action - for innovative collaborations, for public-private partnerships (PPPs) between government agencies, businesses, universities, entrepreneurs and citizens. Working together to not just identify problems, but also to more nimbly create solutions, PPPs can drive economic growth, create jobs and improve the services available to citizens.

  • How does your data garden grow?

    21 May 2013 | 4:22 am
    In this Short Takes...on Analytics blog, "How does your data garden grow," Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Marcus Shingles discusses how organizations can use analytics for business growth.

  • Weathering the storms

    21 May 2013 | 4:19 am
    Deloitte’s analytics-based Operation Enhancement Initiative (OEI) was employed to help a mid-size electric and gas retail and distribution utility in the Northeast better utilize operational data.

  • Drilling through data

    21 May 2013 | 4:17 am
    Deloitte helped an independent oil and gas company derive a solution to seamlessly navigate its data and thus help users extract new insights about the relationship between cost and performance and perform on-the-fly competitor comparisons.
 
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    Business Consulting Buzz

  • Consulting Proposals: Establishing Your Value to the Project

    Michael Zipursky
    23 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    Under almost every circumstance a consultant should not be charging clients on an hourly basis. If you’ve been reading any of my articles relating to consulting fees over the last several years you know that already. As I coach and …CONTINUE READING »Consulting Proposals: Establishing Your Value to the Project is a post from: Business Consulting Buzz

  • How to Use oDesk and Outsource Successfully

    Michael Zipursky
    21 May 2013 | 2:30 am
    Click here to ReTweet: How to Hire Contractors and Outsource Successfully In today’s post I’m going to share with you how I access a low cost pool of skilled contractors that help me grow my business and how you can do …CONTINUE READING »How to Use oDesk and Outsource Successfully is a post from: Business Consulting Buzz

  • 10X Business Growth: How an Engineer Turned Consultant Uses Marketing Automation

    Michael Zipursky
    16 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    Interview Transcript Mike Zipursky:  Hi, everyone. It’s Michael Zipursky here and I’d like to welcome you to another show. Today, we have Steve Gordon with us from Steve Gordon Marketing Florida. Steve took an engineering consulting firm from $250,000 to …CONTINUE READING »10X Business Growth: How an Engineer Turned Consultant Uses Marketing Automation is a post from: Business Consulting Buzz

  • The Consulting Proposal: A Guide to What It Can and Can’t Do

    Michael Zipursky
    14 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    Over the years I’ve found that many consultants misunderstand the real purpose and place of a consulting proposal. The consulting proposal’s job isn’t to ‘win’ the client, you should have already ‘sold’ the client on your services before submitting the …CONTINUE READING »The Consulting Proposal: A Guide to What It Can and Can’t Do is a post from: Business Consulting Buzz

  • Convert More Visitors to Consulting Clients

    Peter Sandeen
    9 May 2013 | 4:30 am
    When you read the usual advice on online marketing, you could think that traffic is the holy grail of profits. Well, you wouldn’t be completely wrong; you need traffic to even have a chance of getting clients. If you’re working on your conversion …CONTINUE READING »Convert More Visitors to Consulting Clients is a post from: Business Consulting Buzz
 
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  • Marshaling Data For Enterprise Insights

    15 May 2013 | 10:00 pm
    Herndon, VA based Principal Suzanne Storc shares additional insight on the unique challenges that DHS faces when it comes to marshaling data.

  • 2013 Global Information Security Workforce Study

    14 May 2013 | 9:00 pm
    The shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals is causing an economic ripple effect across the globe, according to research from the 2013 Global Information Security Workforce Study. Booz Allen partnered with (ISC)² to conduct a study of more than 12,000 information security professionals worldwide.

  • The Path Toward Resiliency

    5 May 2013 | 10:00 pm
    Booz Allen Hamilton can help reinforce "whole community" and "resilience" concepts by promoting mutually agreed upon definitions and developing mechanisms to measure progress toward helping the nation achieve greater resiliency.

  • The Cybersecurity Executive Order

    28 Apr 2013 | 9:00 pm
    We are optimistic about EO 13636, "Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity," and in this viewpoint, we examine how government and indutry can use the EO to achieve their cybersecurity goals.

  • Cyber Security Challenges in the Middle East

    18 Apr 2013 | 10:00 pm
    Booz Allen Vice Chairman Mike McConnell speaks to Dubai One television about the potential for cyber attacks on government and commercial entities in the Middle East.
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    Management Consulted

  • Financial Modeling 102: 4 major types of consulting models

    jennyrae
    19 May 2013 | 5:29 pm
    Today we continue our series on financial modeling for consulting. Financial modeling scared the pants off of me until I figured out how useful it was, and I was even more motivated to be good at it when I realized how awesome it made me look as an analyst. I was purely motivated by competitive drive – what can I say? In our earlier Financial Modeling 101 post, we covered 6 features of every great consulting financial model. Today we take it to the next level, highlighting the different types of financial models and different case types for which you’ll use financial models. One…

  • BCG’s legacy of creativity – critical insights for BCG consulting interview candidates

    Nina Natina
    15 May 2013 | 7:57 pm
    Boston Consulting Group Since its inception, BCG has been a thought leader in business strategy. The firm enjoys bragging rights to a long line of CEOs, partners, and senior consultants who have been major voices in the grand scheme of management consulting. For decades, BCG founder Bruce Henderson wowed the world with his mind-altering insights and perspectives on keeping business growing through the world’s ever-changing economic environment. You may be familiar with the BCG-matrix? First published in 1968, the hugely popular “growth-share matrix” – a simple chart…

  • FREE: 3 Month Mastery offers tips every new consultant should know

    Nina Natina
    8 May 2013 | 12:23 am
    The introduction of our newest ebook has been a huge success, and we want to share the excitement with you – for FREE! Today is the last day to get 3 Month Mastery for FREE on Amazon. Don’t miss this ridiculous giveaway! When we came up with the idea for our newest ebook, 3 Month Mastery – Keys to Becoming a Top-Rated Management Consultant, we knew we were branching out from our staple set of services. Up until now, we’ve focused on providing editing and coaching services on all of those things required to get the job – consulting resumes/cover letters, case…

  • Announcing 3 Month Mastery – 6 Prep Steps to succeed as a management consultant

    Nina Natina
    5 May 2013 | 12:45 am
    It’s finally here! Last week, we quietly launched 3 Month Mastery – Keys to Becoming a Top-Rated Management Consultant —the only ebook that gives you actionable advice for your first 3 months on the job AND resources for preparing before you start. This is our very first book published for Kindle, and despite the year it took to compile it, it’s our CHEAPEST at $25 (for a limited-time only)! If you can’t wait, buy 3 Month Mastery on Amazon right this second. Otherwise…read on! Over the past 5 years, we have received hundreds of emails from soon-to-be…

  • How to break into Mercer as a junior consultant

    jennyrae
    22 Apr 2013 | 5:40 pm
    We have a treat today…a guest from Poland who has offered to share his experience applying for, breaking into and working at Mercer in Warsaw. As over 40% of our readers are from non-U.S. locations, we thought it might be fun to mix it up a bit and give you an on-the-ground insider perspective from a business culture that is truly up-and-coming. Earlier this month, we featured Mercer as a part of our Firm Profile series on the site.  Check it out here if you missed it! Enjoy! ——————————– 1. For the benefit of readers,…
 
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  • PhD Findings

    Paul McKey
    18 May 2013 | 7:22 pm
    It is time to begin sharing some of the key findings from my recent PhD research. Over the next few months I will write a series of articles that step through the arguments and findings of my thesis “The role of subcultures in the implementation of organisational innovation and change”. The research showed that subcultures are a significant, and overlooked, influence upon innovation uptake and any change program.

  • More PhD Time

    Paul McKey
    10 Apr 2012 | 7:16 pm
    I have to record for posterity that the PhD is progressing! This week I moved the draft along quite a bit. Literature Review and Methodology chapters are now in 2nd draft and nearing completion. The case studies and review chapter are about 70% done so it is getting close to wrapping things up. Synergistic Design, after getting buried in sub-cultures and technology implementation for a while, is re-emerging as the primary topic. This PhD is designed to build theory and is therefore mainly inductive. Hence the sheer process of writing and reflecting can lead to new insights and changes the…

  • Summer Cruise - Moreton Bay - Part 3

    Paul McKey
    14 Jan 2012 | 10:46 pm
    NYE at the marina. I slept like a log. When you are at anchor every little noise wakes you in expectation that something has changed and you are now drifting towards Niagara Falls. In a berth securely tied on three sides I call those little sounds Marina Music and they put me to sleep. But we were into the new year early as there was to be a coordinated arrival of our kids, Nelson from Hong Kong (via Sydney) and Paris from Sydney (via Byron Bay) and friends, Phil and Maryann from Brisbane who were joining us for a day sail. Thinking of all this is when I put the unleaded petrol into the…

  • Summer Cruise - Moreton Bay - Part 2

    Paul McKey
    11 Jan 2012 | 1:36 am
    After our first night of successful anchoring and fighting off mossies the tide was with us again and I was keen to get away. Only one thing stopped me - a full bowel. When you go cruising stuff like this can ruin your day. Now the planning for this inevitable moment had been intense yet the solution was still not great. South Moreton Bay has been declared a national park and a NIL Discharge area for untreated sewage of any kind. Boats are required to either fit holding tanks for later pump-out or fit onboard sewage treatment systems. Both are expensive and overkill for this small, mainly…

  • Summer Cruise - Moreton Bay - Part 1

    Paul McKey
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:54 pm
    These next few posts are a diversion from the usual banality of business but will recount a successful project of going on a summer cruise of Moreton Bay in a Beneteau First 27.7. A vessel I describe as a small yacht or a large boat. The boat Annabel and I bought in September was simply fitted, as it was designed, as a cruiser/racer with more emphasis on the racer. Which is how I like it but we also wanted to get some local coastal cruising value out of it but certainly no crossing oceans stuff. We named her Nemeau. The cruise dates were set by available work holidays that unfortunately…
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  • Would You Shop Here If You Didn’t Work Here? Four Steps to Employee Advocacy | Business 2 Community

    sidraisch
    14 May 2013 | 12:36 pm
    See on Scoop.it – Celebrating Local Independent Small Business Would you shop here if you didn’t work here?  Sounds like a simple question, right?  Would you shop here if you weren’t being paid by this company?  Would Sid Raisch‘s insight: Amazing power of the word ASK. Just ask.  See on www.business2community.com Filed under: Uncategorized

  • You are what you buy: “Belief-based consumption” changing face of retail

    sidraisch
    13 May 2013 | 12:35 am
    See on Scoop.it – Celebrating Local Independent Small Business Just as digital life has encouraged the sharing of private information with brands, it’s now seeing consumers expect that same transparency in return. Sid Raisch‘s insight: Large corporations are better at telling their story about how they support large causes and local economies. But the fact is that on average they spend only half of what independent businesses do on charitable causes and substantially less into the local economy where they operate. See www.amiba.net for more information. See on…

  • Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers

    sidraisch
    9 May 2013 | 1:05 pm
    See on Scoop.it – Celebrating Local Independent Small Business This article is by Jackie Huba, consultant, co-author of Church of the Customer blog, and author of “Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics.” (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Shiny New Object Syndrome. Sid Raisch‘s insight: Okay, so I’m not a Lady fan either, but…Who are your One Percenters? Are you giving them a chance to connect to each other and to your company? See on www.forbes.com Filed under: Uncategorized

  • Independent Contractor Enforcement: There’s More Than The IRS To Fear – Forbes

    sidraisch
    9 May 2013 | 9:52 am
    See on Scoop.it – Celebrating Local Independent Small Business Independent Contractor Enforcement: There’s More Than The IRS To Fear Forbes Do you employ “independent contractors” or “freelancers” who might arguably be considered employees? Sid Raisch‘s insight: Rules are rules. Independent contractors treated with restrictions are likely going to be reclassified by the IRS. Yes, you’ve gotten away with it. Yes, others get away with it. But it is not allowed and you may get turned in, or caught.  See on www.forbes.com Filed under:…

  • 5 Small Business SEO Tips You Can’t Succeed Without – GoBeyond SEO

    sidraisch
    9 May 2013 | 9:24 am
    See on Scoop.it – Celebrating Local Independent Small Business The 5 small business seo tips are now essentials in the new world of small business seo. To get your website ranked high, you need to implement these tips. Sid Raisch‘s insight: Time to review the basics to be sure we’re still on track or to get back on track with SEO. It changes.  See on www.gobeyondseo.com Filed under: Uncategorized
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  • How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? by Carter McNamara

    Carter McNamara
    5 May 2013 | 11:40 am
    Welcome to this 3-part article on managing resistance in consulting projects.  This Part 1 describes resistance and how to recognize it.  Part 2 will describe how to deal with resistance from your client.  Part 3  will describe how to deal with your own resistance as a consultant. What is Resistance?  What Causes it? An important skill for you to have as an organizational consultant is to effectively recognize and address resistance from clients.  This is true whether you are an external or internal consultant.  Resistance in a consulting project is when your client (a person or a…

  • Why I’m Cynical about the Consulting Profession by John Dupre

    John Dupre
    14 Apr 2013 | 10:35 am
    Years ago, I remember going out on sales calls with one of the partners in our consulting firm, Marv Weisbord. We would most often be asked in to help a leadership team that was struggling. So, we’d be sitting with a group of managers listening to them talk about their difficult issues. I’d find myself jumping ahead and beginning to think of possible solutions……..team building, coaching, a visioning conference, a process improvement project, etc. I knew that they would stop talking at any point, turn to us, and ask what we would recommend. They probably suspected that we already had…

  • Foundations of Consulting — Part 5: Internal and External Consultants by Carter McNamara

    Carter McNamara
    6 Mar 2013 | 6:22 pm
    Welcome to this six-part series on the foundations of consulting.  If you have not been following along with us, then we encourage you to read parts 1-4, referenced from the bottom of this article.  Part 1 establishes the basis for the series by using Peter Block’s definition of a consultant as someone who is trying to change another person, process or organization, but who has no direct control over what they are trying to change.  (We highly recommend his book “Flawless Consulting.”)  This article describes the many commonalities between external and internal…

  • Foundations of Consulting — Part 2: How Do Consultants Work? by Carter McNamara

    Carter McNamara
    12 Feb 2013 | 3:06 pm
    Part 1 of this series is What Do Consultants Do?, which defines a consultant (as Peter Block puts it) as someone who is trying to change another person, process or organization, but who has no direct control over what they are trying to change.  That post also listed numerous roles that a consultant might play during a project, e.g., coach, facilitator, trainer, advisor — and many others. In addition to the various roles in consulting, there are various approaches to consulting, as described in this post.  This post describes two very different approaches to consulting: a systematic,…

  • Foundations of Consulting — Part 1: What Do Consultants Do? by Carter McNamara

    Carter McNamara
    6 Feb 2013 | 6:02 pm
    Peter Block, in his seminal book, Flawless Consulting, explains that a “consultant” is someone who is trying to change another person, process or organization, but who has no direct control over what they are trying to change. Usually, that change is intended to improve performance – the effective and efficient achievement of goals. One of the greatest frustrations of consulting is the desire to change your client’s organization, but not having direct influence to accomplish that change.  Experienced consultants have learned to work with – and even appreciate – the indirect…
 
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  • What you didn’t know about Google Glass

    Mohit
    14 May 2013 | 1:52 pm
    Google Glass, which will most likely be the first product to hit the wearable-computer market has created quite-a-buzz, not all of which is positive. Tech analysts are divided over how successful Google Glass would actually be This big-hype isn’t surprising and the timing can’t be more... View the full post at Consulting Network Visit the http://consultingnetwork.co.in/members to Network, Find Jobs and Share Knowledge.

  • 4 reasons why Amazon may never be sustainably profitable…

    Puneet Dixit
    14 Mar 2013 | 5:12 pm
    For the past many quarters now, Amazon has been a darling of stock market analysts and investors with the stock currently trading at a P/E ratio of 187. This despite the fact that key metrics such as Income from Operations as a percentage of Sales (dropped from 1.7% to 1.1%), Operating Cash Flows,... View the full post at Consulting Network Visit the http://consultingnetwork.co.in/members to Network, Find Jobs and Share Knowledge.

  • Anti Big-Data strategy: Opportunity or Survival tactics?

    Mohit
    9 Mar 2013 | 11:32 am
    In case you haven’t caught on to the new buzz word  in the business world, let me break it to you – it’s “Big Data”.  Consider the following fact – 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data may include search queries on Google, [...] View the full post at Consulting Network Visit the http://consultingnetwork.co.in/members to Network, Find Jobs and Share Knowledge.

  • Womb to Tomb: Project Management is the Key

    Sandeep Chatterjee
    31 Oct 2012 | 3:55 am
    (Co-authored with S.Bhavani) Global competition is intensifying in its reach, complexity, pace and impact. To cope with it, organizations require carefully sifted knowledge and its prompt application not only to rescue organizations but to make them succeed. Project management, as an important... View the full post at Consulting Network Visit the http://consultingnetwork.co.in/members to Network, Find Jobs and Share Knowledge.

  • Wizard of code (The Response) by Pranav Tekchand

    Guest Author
    5 Sep 2012 | 5:30 pm
    Recently, Hindustan Times got in touch with me for input on an article in their Education section related to a career in game development (programming). This was published today (September 05, 2012) on page 2 of the Education insert, titled Wizard of code (in their New Delhi edition). Although I’m... View the full post at Consulting Network Visit the http://consultingnetwork.co.in/members to Network, Find Jobs and Share Knowledge.
 
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    Change Management

  • Change Entity Creation

    ggitchell
    24 May 2013 | 8:51 am
    For Change Groups: The short version is don't do this solely internally or fully outsourced. Also be very careful of owning this in the wrong way as an internal. The politics of ownership of change management (rather than owning the end state of the change) makes for a mess much worse than before the change group started. Continue reading Change Entity CreationThe post Change Entity Creation appeared first on Change Management.

  • Garrett’s Top Ten Posts

    ggitchell
    23 May 2013 | 12:01 am
    Garrett’s top ten posts as of May 2013- an interesting mix of choices by readers from career tips to perspective to word-smithing and snark. Continue reading Garrett’s Top Ten PostsThe post Garrett’s Top Ten Posts appeared first on Change Management.

  • Wonderfully Disillusioned- Tools

    ggitchell
    22 May 2013 | 7:51 am
    Tools. They are either wonderful or they are the seeds of disillusionment. The things we can now do with tools are amazing. The amount of time wasted with the wrong tools is disillusionary. The combination makes me Wonderfully Disillusioned. Continue reading Wonderfully Disillusioned- ToolsThe post Wonderfully Disillusioned- Tools appeared first on Change Management.

  • Change Entities are For What?

    ggitchell
    21 May 2013 | 8:43 am
    Are you thinking of a Change Entity for your organization? First ask for what. Good answers might be: true transformational change, strategic integration, organizational development, improving your project process or smartly preparing for your organizational future. Continue reading Change Entities are For What?The post Change Entities are For What? appeared first on Change Management.

  • Easy Change Management

    ggitchell
    20 May 2013 | 8:45 am
    There are easy changes. There are changes that EVERYONE wants to be a part of. There are functionality improvements that really do make work life easier and more fun. If this is your change be aware of date announcements, your pilot process and expectations. Be conscious of feedback, training and positive reinforcement. Continue reading Easy Change ManagementThe post Easy Change Management appeared first on Change Management.
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