To stay competitive, you have to constantly look for improvements. In such situations, a lot of lean manufacturing techniques come in handy, even if you have mainly office workers. I will show you briefly how you can use lean manufacturing tools and other techniques to create an efficient lean office that helps you introduce your …
How to conduct management consulting projects devoted to Purchasing & Procurement
During Consulting Projects, a lot of attention will be devoted to Purchasing & Procurement. Usually, this area generates big cost reductions and helps improve liquidity. Finding potential savings is not always easy and requires a well-organized approach to company purchases. Luckily, there are a lot of techniques and frameworks that will help you in a …
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How to use Funnel Analysis in practice?
Funnels and funnel analyses are great tools that can help you find problems and opportunities, optimize processes as well as manage projects. They are widely used by technological firms. However, many industries are still not using them, despite their big potential. In this post, I will show you the main concepts. For more details, I …
Essential Segmentation Methods for Management Consultants & Business Analysts
If you are participating in a consulting project devoted to Sales & Marketing or Strategy most likely you will have to either do segmentation or analyze existing segments of customers. You will try to achieve it on the basis of internal data, market research as well as other external data. That’s why today we will …
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Data Visualization Principles for Management Consultants & Analysts
In consulting you will spend a lot of time creating presentations to show the results of your analyses to the customer. That is why data visualization is so important. With a proper display of data, you have more chances of convincing the customers that your approach makes sense. Today, you will learn how to use …
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How to come up with new business ideas
To build a business you need a good idea that you can explore and develop. Unfortunately, coming up with good business ideas is not easy. That is why quite often firms hire Management Consultants to help them with this sort of project. I will show you briefly different methods that you can use to come …
How to change your business during the recession caused by coronavirus
A few years ago I have seen a documentary movie showing a refugee camp. To my surprise they have managed to create a mini economy inside the camp. There was a school, hairdressers, church, modest fast foods and small workshops. In other words even if the worst happens a new balance is created in which …
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Types of consulting projects
Management consultants have learned to sell all sorts of weird projects to their clients. Some of them were born out of the need of the customer. Others were developed internally by the consulting firms. Consulting projects differ drastically and I will try to shed some light on the main types of projects you can come …
How to conduct market research during consulting projects
The most important piece of advice to all management consultants was given by Dr. House in the famous TV show: Yes. Everybody lies. They do it to save their position or to seem in control. Quite often they simply don’t know. If you want to be a true badass consultant you cannot let lies slow …
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Top Management Consulting Techniques, Tools and Frameworks
Management Consultants are not born smart and almighty. They dress to look that way but most of their “magic powers” come from the application of simple techniques, frameworks, and tools. Do you want to master those “magic” tricks and be as smart as them? If the answer is YES, then let’s spend the next 20 …
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