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Why Companies Hire an External Consultant to Help Them

Strategy Driven

Specialized skills are expensive to develop in-house and you might only need them occasionally. This means they develop a network of connections. The objectivity a consultant can bring to the company can help business decisions break out of petty politics. For example, you might have a small technical problem with Office 365.

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The Startling Fact About the Criteria to Make More Effective.

CO2

Using “Systematic Decision Making&# methodology, DecisionMaker Pro let you start a decision, setup criteria and assert all respective choices in an objective way. They have videos on the developers site that will take you three minutes to learn the tool. It forces you to make better decisions.

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Criteria for a Critical Decision

CO2

Using “Systematic Decision Making&# methodology, DecisionMaker Pro let you start a decision, setup criteria and assert all respective choices in an objective way. They have videos on the developers site that will take you three minutes to learn the tool. It forces you to make better decisions.

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Take the Bias Out of Strategy Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Whether it’s a personal choice or a strategic business decision, emotions often crowd out objectivity. Sound strategy requires objectivity. One way is to develop and set a clear decision rule beforehand, when there is nothing concrete to decide upon yet. After all, executives are only human, too. Make decision rules beforehand.

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Longrunonomics vs. Shortrunonomics

Harvard Business Review

Shiller had already circulated his devastating demonstration that asset prices were much too volatile to be explained by fundamentals, and the 1987 market crash had provided an object lesson in panic. Real business cycle theory continued to prosper, developing an increasing stranglehold over the professional journals.