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Publisher : Dick Billows
ISBN 13 : 1938561430
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Advanced Consulting Project Techniques written by and published by Dick Billows. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Pasmore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Advanced Consulting written by William A. Pasmore and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address the specific needs and challenges faced by high-level consultants, who work on very complex projects and must win the confidence of the most senior leaders in organizations. Advanced consulting requires both expertise and personal qualifications that are distinct from those needed in everyday consulting. Advanced consultants work with high-level executive teams on complex issues such as strategy, organizational design, merger integration, digital disruption, culture change, and system-wide transformation. While neophyte consultants are often given a playbook to follow, advanced consultants need to invent methods that take full advantage of the opportunities that their work with clients presents. There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show readers how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement. Illustrated with vivid real-world examples and including a self-assessment to measure your progress, this book equips you to advance to more senior positions in your firm or to build a successful independent practice.
Author : Bill Pasmore
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523088087
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Advanced Consulting written by Bill Pasmore and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address the specific needs and challenges faced by high-level consultants, who work on very complex projects and must win the confidence of the most senior leaders in organizations. Advanced consulting requires both expertise and personal qualifications that are distinct from those needed in everyday consulting. Advanced consultants work with high-level executive teams on complex issues such as strategy, organizational design, merger integration, digital disruption, culture change, and system-wide transformation. While neophyte consultants are often given a playbook to follow, advanced consultants need to invent methods that take full advantage of the opportunities that their work with clients presents. There is an art to advanced consulting as well as a science; who you are is as important as what you do. Bill Pasmore draws on his four decades of experience as a consultant and teacher of consultants to show readers how to see possibilities that are not evident, conduct analyses that support the value of more comprehensive work, build relationships that engender deeper trust, adapt to changing circumstances, and empower members of their team to take independent actions while maintaining overall control of an engagement. Illustrated with vivid real-world examples and including a self-assessment to measure your progress, this book equips you to advance to more senior positions in your firm or to build a successful independent practice.
Author : Calvert Markham
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789550823
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)
Download or read book The Art of Consultancy written by Calvert Markham and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the practical approach I wish I had come across much earlier in my career." Cynthia Pexton-Shaw Whether you are just starting out, considering or already working as a consultant this book is essential reading, enabling you to understand the needs of your client and to get the result they want.
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Total Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book Projects to Advance Creativity in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Murugan Anandarajan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319932993
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics written by Murugan Anandarajan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues related to the alignment of business strategies and analytics. Vast amounts of data are being generated, collected, stored, processed, analyzed, distributed and used at an ever-increasing rate by organizations. Simultaneously, managers must rapidly and thoroughly understand the factors driving their business. Business Analytics is an interactive process of analyzing and exploring enterprise data to find valuable insights that can be exploited for competitive advantage. However, to gain this advantage, organizations need to create a sophisticated analytical climate within which strategic decisions are made. As a result, there is a growing awareness that alignment among business strategies, business structures, and analytics are critical to effectively develop and deploy techniques to enhance an organization’s decision-making capability. In the past, the relevance and usefulness of academic research in the area of alignment is often questioned by practitioners, but this book seeks to bridge this gap. Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics: Bridging Between Theory and Practice is comprised of twelve chapters, divided into three sections. The book begins by introducing business analytics and the current gap between academic training and the needs within the business community. Chapters 2 - 5 examines how the use of cognitive computing improves financial advice, how technology is accelerating the growth of the financial advising industry, explores the application of advanced analytics to various facets of the industry and provides the context for analytics in practice. Chapters 6 - 9 offers real-world examples of how project management professionals tackle big-data challenges, explores the application of agile methodologies, discusses the operational benefits that can be gained by implementing real-time, and a case study on human capital analytics. Chapters 10 - 11 reviews the opportunities and potential shortfall and highlights how new media marketing and analytics fostered new insights. Finally the book concludes with a look at how data and analytics are playing a revolutionary role in strategy development in the chemical industry.
Author : Dick Billows PMP
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781091712805
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Project Management: Techniques for Consulting and Client Projects written by Dick Billows PMP and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A methodology to sell and deliver profitable fee-for-service consulting engagements that build long-term clients. First, you learn how to identify the needs of client decision-makers. You learn how to identify the performance pressures they face and how to craft the best solution(s). This lets you effectively "sell" the project to the buying client and gain approval. You also learn the tools for assessing the decision-makers' perception of your capabilities and what you offer them.Second, you learn a consulting project methodology that yields projects that are consistently on time and within budget. This methodology is efficient and scalable for any project. It allows you to unearth what the client wants so you can manage their expectations and deliver the business value. Third, you will master project best practices. They include scheduling, estimating and optimizing projects to deliver maximum benefits. You learn seven different estimating methods and multiple schedule optimization techniques. You also learn how to identify and mitigate risks. Fourth, you will learn management and leadership techniques for using performance evaluation and reward techniques that build team members' commitment to the project. You will be able to train your team to estimate more accurately and report their progress in ways that let you identify and solve problems early. Fifth, you learn change control processes for handling change requests to keep the client happy without damaging the project's return on investment. You master a project managers' best tools for controlling the client's expectations. You'll learn to view the project as having four corners and master how to quantify the trade-offs between these four: duration, budget, scope and risk. These trade-off techniques allow you to custom tailor the project to meet the client's needs at the lowest possible cost.Sixth, you learn techniques for spotting problems early and solving them while they are small. We explain how to use earned value and variance tools to keep executives informed about trends in the projects' results, their impact on the bottom line and the forecasted cost of the projects in the entire portfolio. These techniques change the organization's problem solving tactics by making them prospective rather than retrospective. You'll learn how to become a problem solver who works "out in front" of the project team, not one who's focused on last week's problems.Seventh, you'll master techniques for managing all the projects in the portfolio. The above mentioned techniques provide firm partners and management with the data required to shift resources between projects and maximize the portfolio's yield. You learn three configurations of the project office which plays a central role in feeding decision-making data to executives. The data allows them to operate as a "control tower" that tracks all the organization's projects.
Author : Nicolai Andler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3895787019
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Tools for Project Management, Workshops and Consulting written by Nicolai Andler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typically today's tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work - all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookbook-style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness. In his book, Nicolai Andler presents about 120 of such tools, grouped into task-specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Information Consolidation, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, and Project Management. Checklists and application scenarios further enhance the use of this toolbox. Information provided by this book is: - comprehensive and sufficiently wide in scope, combined with a practical level of detail without being too academic - reliable and proven in numerous real implemented cases - easy to apply due to many different search options, checklists, application scenarios and guiding instructions. Written by a professional consultant, business analyst and business coach, this book is a unique reference work and guide for those wanting to learn about or who are active in the fields of consulting, project management and problem solving in general. "This book is of the kind you always wanted but didn't think would or could ever exist: the universal field theory of problem solving." Tom Sommerlatte.
Download or read book Computerworld written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.
Author : Marko Bajec
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642310699
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops written by Marko Bajec and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of eight international workshops held in Gdańsk, Poland, in conjunction with the 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2012, in June 2012. The 35 full and 17 short revised papers were carefully selected from 104 submissions. The eight workshops were Agility of Enterprise Systems (AgilES), Business/IT Alignment and Interoperability (BUSITAL), Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS), Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRCIS), Human-Centric Process-Aware Information Systems (HC-PAIS), System and Software Architectures (IWSSA), Ontology, Models, Conceptualization and Epistemology in Social, Artificial and Natural Systems (ONTOSE), and Information Systems Security Engineering (WISSE).
Author : Steve Shu
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514217160
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Consulting Apprenticeship written by Steve Shu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consulting Apprenticeship is written for business professionals and consultants with a focus on nuances passed on during apprenticeship regarding consulting delivery. Business professionals can benefit with a jump-start approach to applying consulting principles to their business. Designed for the busy professional, The Consulting Apprenticeship is a book of forty, quick-read ideas. These forty, short chapters are divided into four sections: Consulting Mindset - This section covers consulting ways of thinking and can be adopted by both company personnel and consultants. Consulting Techniques - This section covers specific tactics and toolkit methods when using consultative approaches in the trenches as either a company- or consulting firm-practitioner. Consulting Mastery - This section covers advanced perspectives on consulting and may be more useful to either company personnel evaluating consultants or mid- to senior-level consultants. Consulting Special Situations - Whereas the prior sections are applicable to a wide variety of situations, this section covers more infrequent, specific business situations involving consultative approaches in the trenches as either a company- or consulting firm-practitioner. Each chapter of the book concludes with an optional, takeaway exercise. The exercises vary widely in terms of level of involvement. For example, in some cases you can refer to online material. In other cases, you can engage in deeper thinking or apply the concepts over an extended period of time. However you choose to use this book, consulting mastery is a lifelong pursuit. I hope this book helps you with your journey. Stephen Shu Praise for The Consulting Apprenticeship "When one of the companies I worked for needed help taking its consulting organization to the next level, I hired Steve Shu. His ability to drive our management team - all with different opinions on what we should or should not do - to a 'so-what' conclusion and pragmatic next steps gave us the jump start we needed. He is one of the best and deeply understands how consulting organizations should work. His book provides great techniques as well as tools you can use immediately." - Prakash Panjwani, CEO at WatchGuard Technologies, former President and CEO of SafeNet "Steve Shu has put together a comprehensive guide to the all-important nuts and bolts of being a great consultant. The information in Chapter 21, 'Eight Secret Weapons of the Modern Consultant, ' is worth the price of the book. If you're serious about being a more effective consultant, read this book." - Michael McLaughlin, Author of Winning the Professional Services Sale and Principal Consultant at MindShare Consulting LLC; former Partner at Deloitte "Steve Shu has written a hands-on, highly practical guide for new management consultants and internal corporate business strategists alike. So many projects fail because they do not practice the basic consulting project management hygiene Steve describes in chapter 11. If you are new to the trade and want to greatly increase your chance of delivering successful consulting projects, read this book." - Robert Reppa, Vice President Strategy at Johnson Controls and former Partner at Booz & Company "Steve Shu has written a Rosetta Stone for both new and experienced consultants. Filled with forty power-packed ideas and practical chapter takeaways, Consulting Apprenticeship is structured for busy executives to easily digest each concept. A must read for those who seek to go beyond the shallow bromides of the consulting profession, and hone their skills with deeper, more meaningful approaches." - Adrian C. Ott, Award-winning author of The 24-Hour Customer, and CEO, Exponential Edge Inc, called "One of Silicon Valley's most respected strategists" by Consulting Magazine"
Author : Xu, Mark
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599042452
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Managing Strategic Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies written by Xu, Mark and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on environment information scanning and organization-wide support for strategic intelligence. It also provides practical guidance to organizations for developing effective approaches, mechanisms, and systems to scan, refine, and support strategic information provision"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ingrid Bens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787977306
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Advanced Facilitation Strategies written by Ingrid Bens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ingrid Bens, the author of the best-selling book Facilitating with Ease!, comes the next-step resource for project leaders, managers, community leaders, teachers, and other facilitators who want to hone their skills in order to deal with complex situations. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is a field guide that offers practical strategies and techniques for working with challenging everyday situations. These proven strategies and techniques are based on experience gleaned from hundreds of facilitated activities in organizations of all sizes and in all sectors. Both novice and seasoned facilitators who have had firsthand experience designing and leading meetings will benefit from this reality-based playbook. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is filled with the information facilitators need to Become better at diagnosing facilitation assignments and creating effective process designs Broaden their repertoire of tools to make impromptu design changes whenever they are needed Learn to be more resilient and confident when dealing with dysfunctional situations and difficult people.
Author : Ethan M. Rasiel
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071368833
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The McKinsey Way written by Ethan M. Rasiel and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If more business books were as useful, concise, and just plain fun to read as THE MCKINSEY WAY, the business world would be a better place." --Julie Bick, best-selling author of ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT. "Enlivened by witty anecdotes, THE MCKINSEY WAY contains valuable lessons on widely diverse topics such as marketing, interviewing, team-building, and brainstorming." --Paul H. Zipkin, Vice-Dean, The Fuqua School of Business It's been called "a breeding ground for gurus." McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as "In Search of Excellence" author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae. When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the "McKinsey-ites" whom they call for help. In THE MCKINSEY WAY, former McKinsey associate Ethan Rasiel lifts the veil to show you how the secretive McKinsey works its magic, and helps you emulate the firm's well-honed practices in problem solving, communication, and management. He shows you how McKinsey-ites think about business problems and how they work at solving them, explaining the way McKinsey approaches every aspect of a task: How McKinsey recruits and molds its elite consultants; How to "sell without selling"; How to use facts, not fear them; Techniques to jump-start research and make brainstorming more productive; How to build and keep a team at the top its game; Powerful presentation methods, including the famous waterfall chart, rarely seen outside McKinsey; How to get ultimate "buy-in" to your findings; Survival tips for working in high-pressure organizations. Both a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most admired and secretive companies in the business world and a toolkit of problem-solving techniques without peer, THE MCKINSEY WAY is fascinating reading that empowers every business decision maker to become a better strategic player in any organization.
Author : Harold Kerzner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471472840
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Advanced Project Management written by Harold Kerzner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ADVANCED PROJECT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITATIVE STRATEGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING PROJECT MANAGEMENT Senior managers at world-class corporations open their office doors to discuss case studies that demonstrate their thought processes and actual strategies that helped them lead their companies to excellence in project management in less than six years! Following the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®), industry leaders address: Project risk management Project portfolio management The Project Office Project management multinational cultures Integrated project teams and virtual project teams
Author : Alan Weiss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471470031
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Organizational Consulting written by Alan Weiss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expert guide to effective internal consulting This book guides internal consultants through the steps necessary to bolster their credibility, build relationships within the organization, develop internal marketing abilities, and apply proper methodologies to their work. Alan Weiss, an experienced consultant, provides practical techniques the internal consultant, internal human resources practitioner, and any other internal change agent can use to excel at work, advance their careers, and become valued assets to their organizations. Some of the major subjects covered include setting up the proper environment for success and establishing peer-level interactions. Alan Weiss, PhD (East Greenwich, CT), has consulted with hundreds of organizations around the world, including Mercedes-Benz, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, and Chase. He lectures widely and appears regularly on radio and television to discuss productivity and performance. He is the author of twelve books, including Getting Started in Consulting (Wiley: 0-471-38455-0), The Ultimate Consultant (Jossey-Bass: 0-7879-5508-6), How to Acquire Clients (Jossey-Bass: 0-7879-5514-0), and Process Consulting (Jossey-Bass: 0-7879-5512-4).
Author : Timothy J. Havranek
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574442182
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry written by Timothy J. Havranek and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental remediation has brought significant improvements to industrial sites and surrounding communities throughout the nation. It's also become notorious for high budget overruns and frequent schedule delays, as environmental remediation's technological aspects become subject to political, managerial and economic concerns. Modern Project Management (MPM) Processes offer a new framework for remediation programs, geared to increased efficiency and precise troubleshooting. Environmental consultant and certified project management professional (PMP) Timothy J. Havranek has helped various companies put MPM into practice: now, he brings his techniques to the environmental remediation industry at large. Melding traditional project management structure and advanced strategic planning techniques to the needs of environmental remediation, Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry presents this major innovation: a standardized planning process, applicable to all types of remediation projects. Every participant in an environmental remediation effort can mutually benefit from Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry. Environmental consultants will discover precise budget and schedule-planning skills-quite an advantage in their increasingly competitive industry. Customers will also know what to consider when selecting an environmental services company, and discover advanced methods for reducing project costs and durations. MPM: it's bringing new vitality and purpose to environmental protection. Put it into practice with the benefit of Havranek's real-life experience.
