David A Fields

JANUARY 30, 2024

You’ve set goals, determined strategy and identified initiatives to build a more successful consulting firm. Fields Consulting Group. Are you actually propelling your initiatives powerfully enough to achieve your goals?

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David A Fields

JANUARY 16, 2024

There are five common bottlenecks that constrain a consulting firm’s profits. Fortunately, that means there are also five, straightforward keys to increasing your consulting firm’s bottom line. Consulting is a simple business. That’s the consulting cycle. Fields Consulting Group.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

You also remember the Consultants. As a consumer of consulting services for more years than I care to admit, I have developed a well defined view of a typical engagement. To illustrate the viewpoint of a consumer of consulting services, I want to present a satirical view of a typical engagement. Part 1: The Evil Empire.

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David A Fields

JULY 16, 2019

Or your consulting firm is stuck. Write a book, or track consulting project profitability, or win a consulting project from the Danish royal family.) Or some Godzilla task smashed its way to the forefront and all your (consulting firm’s) work has … Continued. You’re stuck.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

In Beyond Great , three partners from the Boston Consulting Group —Arindam Bhattacharya, Nickolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling—make the point hat being great is no longer good enough to succeed when the very notion of outstanding business performance is being reinvented. Strategy #1: Do Good, Grow Beyond. Strategy #5: Flex How You Make It.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Making Strategy Matter. Making strategy matter happens when leaders intentionally choose activities in alignment with their organization’s vision. Strategies are the bundling of chosen activities, and not to be confused with goals or objectives. Dave Coffaro is a strategic advisor, executive coach, and author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Management consulting is something you may want to consider, even if you run a small business. These are a few of the complex issues that a consultant of this kind can help you with: Team Leadership. The leaders must be well versed and organized in their leadership strategies as well. Growth Strategies.

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David A Fields

JUNE 6, 2023

As a consulting firm leader, you’re winning projects, delivering client delight, upgrading your support infrastructure and pondering strategies for growth. Your consulting firm may already incorporate a post-project retrospective into your standard operating approach. Fields Consulting Group.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Without sound financial strategies, even the most innovative and promising ventures can stumble and fail. In this ever-evolving and competitive business landscape, entrepreneurs and business leaders must employ strategies that enable them not only to survive but thrive financially.

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David A Fields

DECEMBER 4, 2018

You’re diligently working away at your consulting practice, winning projects and creating exceptional value for your clients. Your current cash situation and your consulting firm’s idle capacity are top of mind for you. Don’t let off-strategy projects (a.k.a. bad work”) crowd out your ability to accept on-strategy projects.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Try these three negotiation strategies Here are three tips to consider when emphasizing the “we” in your negotiating partnership: Identify the relationship you want to have with your negotiating partner, both for this negotiation and going forward. . * * * Beth Fisher-Yoshida , Ph.D.,

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Every business requires effective strategies and executions to grow. While some may know how to create effective strategies, their businesses still fail because of inappropriate leadership. They suppose business to solely involve strategies, planning, and implementation, while they sideline effective leadership. Read through.

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David A Fields

JULY 27, 2022

Conversations reveal opportunities for your consulting firm. However, you could be pouring your time and energy into bushels of conversations and still not be finding consulting projects. That’s enormously frustrating, and the strategy below will help. Fields Consulting Group. networking”).

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CEO Insider

MARCH 9, 2023

Last week I had one of the most fulfilling episodes of my consulting career: A two-day immersive workshop with a Fortune 500 insurer designed to stress-test their corporate strategy. While specifics are private, I’d like to share a few thoughts this experience inspired. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 3, 2023

Think about the last time you went to a leadership meeting to hear about a new strategy, direction or business plan. Unfortunately, the latter is the case for most strategy rollout or refresh meetings today – even at the leadership level. Did you leave that meeting feeling optimistic, energized and accountable for what was presented?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

To overcome these challenges, businesses must adapt quickly and develop effective strategies to stay ahead of the competition. Coaching provides a unique opportunity for leaders to gain self-awareness and develop the necessary skills and strategies to overcome these challenges effectively. This is where coaching plays a crucial role.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Because of this, there are online consulting firms that give people the answers they need. Online consultants can help in a variety of ways. An online consultant with expertise in digital marketing can provide information and advice on how to begin your adventure with social media marketing. Leadership and Human Resources.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2023

With numbers as big as these and burnout at an all-time high, it becomes increasingly important to take employee retention strategies seriously and explore what they can do to connect with their employees. This is why employee retention strategies are important. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 50.6 million U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2023

Here are 4 winning strategies to help you with adopting BDA and take your company to the next level. With the above in mind, let’s begin with our strategies. This can also be done via data analytics consulting , whereby you hire an expert to analyse the information presented and then create a report for you to use to reduce expenses.

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David A Fields

MARCH 26, 2019

Is your consulting firm like toothpaste? Your offering isn’t creamy and there’s no limit to how much consulting you can bring on a plane. But adopting a classic marketing strategy used to sell … Continued. The post A More Powerful Way to Communicate Your Consulting Firm’s Promise appeared first on David A.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And one of these variables is smart marketing automation strategies. Leveraging Smart Marketing Automation Smart marketing automation involves using data-driven strategies to create targeted and personalized campaigns. Schedule a consultation now and see how our team can help you reach your goals. Start reading.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

There are many types of consultants to choose from. A lot of people think that consulting is all strategy-driven, where companies hand a few slips of paper to the CEO and then leave. Strategy consultants. Strategy consultants are the most obvious type of consultant. Technology consultants.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Learn the importance of communicating what sets your consulting firm apart from your competition. When you run a consulting firm, you have to answer one very important question. What makes you special?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On the one hand, most CEOs agree with with the statement attributed to Peter Drucker: culture eats strategy for breakfast. This approach plays right into the hands of eager consultants because getting from the current culture to the desired future culture becomes a gap-closing program.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Think strategy consulting, and you're probably picturing the classic playbook: dive into the data, analyze like there's no tomorrow, and dish out advice. But if we're talking real change, real strategy magic, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Enter the new era of strategy and implementation consulting.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 28, 2022

Despite how much is written about strategy and how much money is spent on it, academics and consultants continue to report chronic strategy practice failures: I argue that one reason for the failures is that strategy is still not fully defined. The post Which of 8 Definitions of Strategy are You Using?

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

One question many innovators face at some point in their careers is whether to work in a large, corporate organization, or in a small start up or consultancy. Today I want to revisit and update a blog I wrote a few years ago for LinkedIn that discussed some pros and cons of consultancy versus corporate.

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HR Digest

MARCH 31, 2022

Human resource (HR) strategy is the backbone of workforce management in any organization. In the following sections, we will discuss how you can create a human resource strategy that is effective and efficient. In the following sections, we will discuss how you can create a human resource strategy that is effective and efficient.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Consultant Robert "Dusty" Staub on the courage to face our current reality: “Why do so many intelligent people miss the obvious, focusing on what they wish to be true versus what is currently true and staring them in the face? Source: Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Richard Rumelt has written an insightful book on developing the ability to identify and develop good strategy. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy is obviously the result of decades of practice developing strategy and the many case studies and classroom interactions made it personal and very readable. We’ve all been there.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

T HE PANDEMIC threw all strategies into the junkyard. is a consultant, speaker, and author. Through his consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., Through his consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., Conduct your “forensic implementation analysis” to examine these five dynamic forces : 1.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 12, 2023

Article: Seven power skills business consultants need to work successfully alongside AI Written by David Smith FIC and Adam Riley Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Management consultancies will have to make human understanding part of their offer in the brave new world of AI.

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David A Fields

JUNE 12, 2018

Your consulting firm has a hot lead with California-based, Death Valley Electrical (a.k.a. DVE), a surprisingly large company you’ve never worked with before. The project scope is modest, but you sense that a small engagement could lead to a long, profitable relationship. How should you proceed?

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at HP, and then consulting to both startups and big companies like Disney, Visa, Colgate, Medtronic and others, I’ve created hundreds of strategic plans. Business strategy used to be a clear and methodical process.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Be dynamic and agile, not routine and static – most “strategy” firms offer inflexible, rigid, complex and time consuming approaches that eat up resources and yield only limited value. Let your company culture of tomorrow inform your strategies today – Few planning approaches account for existing corporate culture.

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