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The Economics of Consulting – Which Marketing Channels Work Best? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Business Consulting Buzz recently surveyed 10,000 independent consultants, asking them how they market their consulting services.  Interesting, insightful questions include: Which marketing channels have made you the most money? What is your annual income? How much do you spend on marketing? What is the average value of a new project? What is the main reason […]

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The 5 Essential Things Today’s Most Successful Business Leaders Carry

LinkedIn recently surveyed 50-plus of today’s most successful business leaders, asking them about essential things they carry.  These notable men and women include the likes of Richard Branson, Meg Whitman, and Deepak Chopra. Here are the five essential items that these great businessmen and women always carry as part of their daily routines. 1. Smartphone […]

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First Milestone Achieved for our Free PowerPoint Plugin – 1000 Shares and Counting

A month ago, we released Flevy Tools to our modest list of newsletter subscribers. Flevy Tools is a PowerPoint plugin. It can dynamically create various business diagrams, such as Gantt Charts and Harvey Ball Diagrams.  The diagrams are highly customizable. We immediately received great feedback via email, many compare the plugin to ones available at […]

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ISO 9001

Thousands of companies in over 100 countries have adopted ISO 9001 as their quality management standard. Many more are pursuing this certification. Well, why is this? ISO 9001 helps an organization assure quality and save money. Plus, customers expect it. ISO 9001 applies to all types of organizations. This professionally-developed presentation can be used to […]

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5S – Five Keys to Workplace Productivity

The 5S workplace organization system applies a set of basic management principles that many companies widely adopt to maximize workplace productivity and organization. As a cornerstone of Lean management, 5S improves workplace morale, safety and efficiency. In this training presentation, you will learn how to mobilize and align your management team to launch or improve […]

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Hoshin Kanri

Hoshin Kanri (Hoshin Planning, Policy Deployment, Management by Policy) is a powerful, systematic Strategic Planning/Management methodology developed by Dr. Yoji Akao that uses a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle to create goals, choose control measures and link daily control activities to the company’s strategy. It involves a “catchball” as the driving force of alignment, clarification and employee involvement. […]

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Kaizen

Kaizen refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous process improvement in manufacturing, engineering, and business management. This training presentation is specifically designed for managers, supervisors, facilitators, and continuous improvement steering committees who want to kick-start and implement Kaizen activities in their work areas to improve productivity and customer value. This presentation includes:  The […]

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Flevy Tools – Free PowerPoint Plugin

Today, we just released a Flevy Tools, a free PowerPoint plugin that provides a set of automated diagramming tools.  With just a few clicks, you can dynamically create Gantt Charts, Harvey Ball Diagrams, Approach Diagrams, and more. For more info, screenshots, and the download, go here: https://flevy.com/powerpoint-plugin

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Significance of Growth Strategy for Firms in the Global Brewery Industry

This is a guest blog post. For more information on growth strategy and industry analysis, you may be interested in these documents: Blue Ocean Strategy Primer, Common Strategy Consulting Frameworks, Business Model Innovation. An Overview of the Global Brewery Industry The scope of the industry can be evaluated from the fact that it generates revenue […]

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Business Cases

Companies are always building business cases—for a variety of different investment decisions.  Are you building one right one?  Here are 4 business case templates found on Flevy that you can compare yours to. Options Analysis Business Case Template IT Implementation Business Case Template Mobile TV Business Case Example New Technology Investment Business Case Template Is […]

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23 Business Strategy & Management Models

Recently, we partnered with PPT Lab, a crowd-sourced slide production service, to sell their presentation documents.  Each month, PPT Lab develops 50+ slides worth of business presentations, where the content is driven by their community of subscribers. Now, non-subscribers can purchase individual presentations directly through Flevy.  There is one presentation in particular that we’d like to […]

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Many companies develop robust strategies, but struggle with operationalizing their strategies into implementable steps. This presentation from flevy introduces 12 powerful business frameworks spanning both Strategy Development and Strategy Execution. [Learn more]

  This 48-page whitepaper, authored by consultancy Envisioning, provides the frameworks, tools, and insights needed to manage serious Change—under the backdrop of the business lifecycle. These lifecycle stages are each marked by distinct attributes, challenges, and behaviors. [Learn more]

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