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There are more books, lining more shelves, sitting in more bookstores, located in more cities, than we could ever care to count, let alone read. All promising the, “hidden secrets” to all things sales. Closing, opening, countering, negotiating, calling, networking, presenting… the list goes on. And all these hidden secrets are...
3 Tips for the Entrepreneur / Workhorse
When we have dinner parties or the neighbor makes small talk, the topic of what I do for a living always comes up. I mean, it’s par for the course when you’re getting to know some one. Most times you can equate what a person does to what their daily...
When I think back to this time in 2008, I remember this vivid moment, filled with emotion. I was driving on 280 in Birmingham, Alabama and I remember what I was feeling at that exact moment about the economy. I’d left Apple the previous year to start my life as...
Ready for a New Website? 3 Things to Keep in Mind!
Are you looking to develop or re-develop a website / blog for your company? If so, I have three things I thought would be helpful to share that I usually only share with people who I can be painfully honest with. Usually these types of people are friends or family, sometimes...
DIY A/B Split Testing Using PHP and MYSQL
I was recently working on a landing page for a client that prompted visitors to fill out a quick survey. The page looked pretty nice and invited visitors to click a button that launched the survey inside of a modal box. That seemed good enough, but the next day, I...
Marketing “Experts” Need A Whaaambulance!
Over the past month or so I’ve been apart of conversations, social media events, read blogs and/or viewed tweets that are complaining about the flood of “experts” using social media. In the small pond that is social media, there seems to be this anger shown towards the new comers to the...
Deloitte LLP
IFRS Update: Changes in the Irish Statutory Reporting Environment
Beginning in 2012, the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) proposes to replace Irish GAAP, which would require companies reporting under Irish GAAP to either adopt full IFRS or IFRS for Small and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
Read the Summer 2010 issue of our semiannual magazine for business leaders. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
Mergers & Acquisitions: The Complexities of a Buyers’ Market
Getting the deal done right is imperative, and company management, boards of directors and other key stakeholders are increasingly being held accountable for results. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
Good Medicine or a Bitter Pill?
The full implications of PPACA, and other legislative and regulatory initiatives affecting health care, will unfold over the next decade and beyond. Explore implications of health care reform for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
Deloitte Survey: Outlook for Back-to-School Shopping Season Improving
Deloitte has released the results of its annual survey of consumers’ back-to-school spending intentions and trends. The latest survey reveals that consumers are sending some encouraging signals to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
CFOs are wary of increased government regulation, but are generally optimistic about the future, projecting strong growth in sales, earnings, dividends and capital spending, but only modest growth in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...
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How to Get the Right Information to Improve Performance
Many organizations are pressured to do the seemingly impossible: Increase quality and affordability, and expand their customer base — all......
Amazon has filed patents for "Incorporating Advertising in On-Demand Generated Content." The technology will allow context-sensitive ads to appear on......
Nummi: What Toyota Learned and GM Didn't
Last week, Toyota announced it will close the plant of New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (Nummi), its one-time joint venture......
Leadership and Innovation in a Commoditized World
How do you make money making soda cans--not the branded soda inside, but the can? The old imperative might have......
Want Better Journalism? Be a Smarter Media Consumer
We're going to have plenty of media and journalism in coming years and decades. I take this for granted. But......
Microsoft and Yahoo: Too Little, Too Late, Too Hyped
It took over a year to for Microsoft and Yahoo to to forge their alliance in the internet search and......
Consulting News
CBiz Inc. buys Baltimore-based retirement plan consulting firm
Business services firm CBiz Inc. said it has acquired Baltimore-based South Winds Inc., a retirement plan consulting firm that does business as Benexx....
Sandy Spring Bancorp climbing out of slump
After swimming in loan defaults for a year and a half, Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc....
UPDATE 1-Management Consulting H1 profit up; resumes dividend
British support services firm Management Consulting Group posted a 1 percent increase in underlying pretax profit in the first half, resumed dividend payments and said its was confident that its business would recover in the second half....
By Diana Britton, Managing Editor While sales of low-cost trucks in North America are almost non-existent, there is potential for growth in this market, especially for foreign manufacturers such as Tata Motors and Mahindra, according to Ryan Carmichael, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan....
Constellation Energy and Evergreen Solar announce the completion of a 525-kilowatt photovoltaic solar-power system at Patriot Place in Foxboro....
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY) - Financial and Strategic Analysis...
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. - Financial and Strategic Analysis Review - new company profile and analysis released 2010-08-02 02:15:02 - Bed Bath & Beyond Inc....
Towers Perrin - Thought Leadership
Catastrophe Bonds Evolve to Address Credit Risk Issues
Towers Perrin clarifies causes of recent failures of catastrophe bonds to protect investors and describes what can be done to restore market confidence and protect assets going forward....
Perspectives: Value-Based Strategies Drive Down Costs by Improving Quality of Care
This issue of our 2009 Perspectives series looks at how companies are working to address the disconnects between health care spending and results by assessing the varied needs of their employee populations and tailoring value-based strategies to address them....
Alternatives to the Traditional 401(k) Match
Companies looking ahead to how they will restructure their reward programs in a recovering economy will no doubt be asking some tough questions about their 401(k) plans. One option is more challenging but also more intriguing – reengineer their strategies to make their employees’ retirement objectives more achievable, focus more...
Pension Plans After the Meltdown
Defined benefit pension plans are caught in a period of significant volatility that requires sponsors to better understand investment and cash flow implications while rethinking plan design....
Assessing Sales Compensation Effectiveness
This sales support tool provides a brief overview of the key features and benefits of Towers Watson’s approach to assessing sales compensation programs, which helps companies ask all of the right questions and gather robust, actionable data about the impact and cost of their sales incentives to make sound decisions...
Towers Perrin/Watson Wyatt Announce Shareholder Approval of Merger
Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc. and Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: WW), both leading global consulting firms, announced that at their respective special meetings of shareholders, each held earlier today, their shareholders adopted the merger agreement pursuant to which the companies will combine their businesses....
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Free Shipping – The Super Fantabulous Conversion Booster
One of the things that I often struggle with is the shipping policy on sites that I run or manage. Shipping can make or break the conversion rate of a site and is the leading cause of confusion and shopping cart abandonment online. If your shipping policy is too complicated...
How not to do an email newsletter – brought to you by Best Buy
This is a short post, but I had to get it out there. I received my weekly Best Buy email newsletter yesterday and was very intrigued by the advertisement. It advertised $800 off for a Sony Flat Panel TV. I am in the market to purchase one, so I clicked...
Search Engine Optimization has a lot of bad information being passed around. Some of it may have been true at one time or another, but you have stupid people regurgitating bad information and it makes the people who are doing good work look incompetent. Some of them have been created...
Links Vs. Content for SEO – response to SEOmoz.org post
There was recently a really good post on SEOmoz.org on the topic of links vs. Content for search engine rankings. They had several high level SEO people (not me, whats up with that?) give their opinion on if good content produces rankings alone, the answers were all pretty similar. The...
SMB’s - it is not as easy as dumping the Yellow Pages for the internet
One of the big changes in advertising for Small Businesses is that they are dumping the yellow pages and going online. When I talk to small businesses, they think this means dumping the yellow pages and going to search, or the internet version of the yellow pages. It is not...
Don’t let your online marketing company control your business
More often than not, we see clients that have given the entire keys to their online business to an online marketing company, web development company, consultant, etc. What I mean by keys is that their vendors, in many cases, control their hosting accounts, analytics accounts, paid search accounts, and in...
Management Consulted
Management consulting interview preparation – the new and improved guide
Here’s a checklist that you should run through before any consulting interview. 80% of the advice applies across industries and job functions as well. Happy reading! Long before the interview… 1) Start case prep NOW. Not tomorrow, not in a week, start it NOW. Remember, the case can be more than 50%...
This article addresses consulting-related extracurricular activities and is aimed towards undergrads, MBAs, and other students. So you’ve landed a spot at a pretty good college/bschool. Now, all you have to do is do well in classes, and you’ll automatically find a great consulting job, right? Wrong. Actively contributing to consulting-related extracurricular activities...
How To Break Into Management Consulting By Pursuing An MBA
This article was guest written by my friend Zeke Lee, a fellow former management consultant (Booz & Co.) and Stanford graduate who offers some great real world advice on the realities of recruiting. Zeke is also the founder of the GMAT Pill Study Method, a great GMAT prep resource for...
5 more common mistakes in consulting resumes that we’ve been editing
We’ve been offering a resume editing service since site launch. In this time, we’ve had the fortune to work with hundreds of clients. Below is a list of 5 more common resume mistakes we’ve noticed. You can also refer to the previous posts: Top 10 consulting resume mistakes and Top 10 resume...
Why Harvard Business School Does NOT Equal McKinsey
The thought has crossed the minds of almost anyone breaking into consulting: Should I get an MBA first? Or should I do 2~3 years in consulting and then get an MBA? Is an MBA degree even necessary? If I already have an MBA, how can I leverage that? Is consulting...
Consulting Pulse
It has been ages since I posted. Life has been busy, and so has work. Not much time right now. I am testing the new template designer in Blogger, and I really like it. I knew staying with Google products would win out in the end. I no longer care about...
The one that didn't get away...
The Dip is a concept you see every corner you turn. We recently signed a number of large scale contracts with significant organizations. Not an easy thing to do. In fact - it took over a year to sort out. A year of trials, reference checks, small starts, false starts, meeting up...
In just about every area where you have to convey your thoughts in print it is wiser to restrict yourself to what they need to know. Whether it is a CV, a quote, an end of engagement report or a marketing handout. Every time there is an urge to add a little...
The iPad and the secret of PR led advertising
Ever notice that Apple's new products are greeted with almost blanket coverage and buzz, even without publishing their first advertisement. When Google was beginning it shunned advertisements in favor of a PR led approach. Even today I cannot recall ever seeing an ad for any of Google's products except the Adwords ads they...
5 must do strategies for B2B marketers on LinkedIn
1) Update your profile to reflect the value you add, not what you do. LinkedIn, or any B2B marketing mechanism, is all about value, value, value. Always value. With this goes regular updates of your status. But not the salesy stuff. real updates based on where you are, what you are...
Audiobook review: Free Prize Inside!
This is the first in a series of posts that will review audio books from Audible.com. I discovered audio books about a year and a half ago and it has dramatically changed my life. I used to read a book every 4 - 6 weeks, today I run through two to three...
Management IQ - BusinessWeek
When Tragedy Strikes, How Can You Help?
In light of the West Virginia coal mine tragedy, you may find yourself asking, "How can I help?" This question is especially hard to answer when misfortune hits close to home. Well, I’ve discovered a Web site that helps not only those in need but also the people who want...
When Tragedy Strikes, How Can You Help?
In light of the West Virginia coal mine tragedy, you may find yourself asking, "How can I help?" This question is especially hard to answer when misfortune hits close to home. Well, I’ve discovered a Web site that helps not only those in need but also the people who want...
Management Lessons from a Triumphant Olympics
Members of the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team won gold and silver yesterday in the sport's final Olympic event. It was the culmination of an amazing winter games for the team, which won medals in all three of the sports' competitions. It was also one of the more amazing turnaround...
Vulnerability Paves the Way for Healing (by guest blogger John Baldoni)
I hope no executive in a position of authority accepts Tiger Woods’ prepared statement as a blueprint for how to make a public apology. The words were right, but the sincerity seemed lacking for one simple reason. It was designed more for self-protection rather than self-improvement....
Vulnerability Paves the Way for Healing (by guest blogger John Baldoni)
I hope no executive in a position of authority accepts Tiger Woods’ prepared statement as a blueprint for how to make a public apology. The words were right, but the sincerity seemed lacking for one simple reason. It was designed more for self-protection rather than self-improvement....
Tiger Woods: Finally, He Shows His Stripes
Good for Tiger Woods for including his sponsors (including former ones), his foundation, and his employees in his much-anticipated apology. An abject, ashamed-looking Tiger Woods finally spoke out publicly about--and admitted to--his infidelities and the seismic fallout. He admitted to getting therapy, said that he has merely begun the process...
All Booz Allen Press Releases
Ten-year contract with an estimated potential value of more than $700 million supports the FAA's implementation of our nation's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)...
Booz Allen Hamilton Gains Appetite for Commuting by Bicycle
Press Release issued by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments....
Firm is one of nine companies that have been awarded part of a new five-year, $2 billion, multiple award, prime contract from the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)....
June 21, 2010...
Booz Allen's Natalie Givans to lead AFCEA International as Chair of the Board....
Consulting magazine is the flagship publication of the consulting profession. The magazine features the latest information on consulting careers, thought leadership, and corporate strategies.
Best Practices in Career Development: Point B
EJ Blanchfield, chief people officer of Point B, an employee-owned management-consulting firm, identifies career development as a key tool for business leaders to achieve their goals today and into the future....
New E&Y Healthcare Practice Leader Eyes Substantial Growth
At the end of March, President Obama signed major healthcare reform into law. In April, John Distefano joined Ernst & Young as leader of the firm’s healthcare practice of its Advisory Services Group. How’s that for timing?...
Roland Berger Elects New CEO, Executive Committee
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants has elected Martin Wittig as its new CEO, replacing Burkhard Schwenker....
KPMG Buys Grant Thornton's Supply Chain Practice
KPMG acquired the Supply Chain Advisory Services practice of Grant Thornton LLP, a U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd....
One on One with Ed Hess, Part Two
Consulting's One-on-One...
Roberts to Lead Buck Consultants
Mike Roberts has been named executive managing director of Buck Consultants and will take the consultancy’s top leadership position effective immediately....
A.T. Kearney Publications
JumpStarting Your eSourcing Initiative
As delivery tools such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) have become more popular, so has eSourcing. Yet the technological advances and positive results have not led to widespread implementation by most global companies. How can companies JumpStart their eSourcing initiatives?...
Searching for Gold in the Payments Industry
It is "high noon" for the European payments industry as customers and regulators begin pressuring financial institutions to offer more convenient services at lower prices....
Achieving Excellence in Retail Operations
Determining what retailers are doing well and how they can improve to achieve peak performance is at the core of A.T. Kearney's 2010 Achieving Excellence in Retail Operations study....
Retail Expansion: A Two-Way Street
The 2010 A.T. Kearney Global Retail Development Index finds that as the dust settles after a turbulent 2009, retailers in developed markets are facing a changed landscape while those in emerging markets are getting back on track....
Foreign Investors Flee to Safety
Senior executives at the world's largest companies are still wary of investing, but most are preparing for an upswing, according to findings in the 2010 A.T. Kearney FDI Confidence Index....
Committed to firmwide sustainability-A.T. Kearney's journey towards being carbon neutral
Insights into how the firm achieved its target of being carbon neutral....
NYT > Consultants
Now We Know Who’s Winning at the OTB
Here’s good work if you can get it: coming up with a plan to fix the city’s off-track betting business at $125,000 a month....
Divining the Return on a Candidate’s Investment
A Republican strategist got $1 million for his movie company from Meg Whitman and later joined her campaign....
Off-Track Betting Abandons a Costly Rescue Plan
The city’s gambling agency is bankrupt, but its recent reorganization bid managed to enrich many lawyers and marketers before it was dropped....
Bloomberg’s Man in Albany Is Young but Seasoned
Micah Lasher, who at 28 is New York City’s chief state lobbyist, is so precocious that while in college he founded a successful political consulting firm....
Bruno Gets 2-Year Prison Term, but Stays Free
Joseph L. Bruno, the former New York State Senate majority leader and once one of the state’s most powerful politicians, denied committing a crime....
To Save Millions, M.T.A. Simply Asked Vendors for a Break
Faced with a $400 million deficit, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority acted on cost-saving advice of consultants, who also urged big administrative layoffs....
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