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3 Reasons Understanding Company Culture Is Critical for Management Consultants
In the last few years, we’ve heard a lot about company culture: what it is, what it means, and why it’s important. Several of our country’s businesses have begun to build “culture first” organizations where culture drives the customer experience and profits, not the...
3 Steps to Make Change within Your Organization Manageable
Change is inevitable. While that simple sentence may seem to state the obvious, it is, nonetheless, true both in our personal lives and within our organizations. We face change whenever an employee leaves, whenever we on-board a new client, whenever we add new...
7 Signs Your Business Needs a New Strategic Plan
The old adage says that 10 minutes of planning saves an hour in execution. The same motto applies to running a business. Whether your organization is opening another office location, on-boarding a new client, or simply starting on a new internal project, the planning...
5 Reasons Being a Consultant Jumpstarts Your Career
When I was in school, I couldn’t help but think about what I would do once I had my Bachelor’s degree, then my Masters in Business Administration (MBA). There were so many options for career paths, and I wanted to pursue a line of work about which I would be...
5 Tips to Find a Consultant Your Company Can Afford
Imagine your organization has decided to completely overhaul one of its integral business processes, like underwriting an insurance product or reconfiguring your mailroom. To make sure the business process improvement (BPI) effort is successful, you want to bring in a...
6 Questions to Ask Consultants Before Hiring Them [and Why]
Imagine that your company has decided to launch a new product line in a few months. Or perhaps you’re scaling from startup mode into full operations with a continued focus on growth but need to make sure that your products, services, and business processes are...