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Category Archives: Consulting Excellence
Consulting companies that “GET” the value message and those that don’t.
Bain a global management consulting company employs 5,000 people, generates $2B in consulting revenue each year and “gets” value. Their web page makes the audacious claim that Bain clients outperform the market by a 4 to 1 margin. Do you … Continue reading
What’s the cost of bad IT architecture?
Look closely at these two cruise ships. Except for the name and the funnel, they are almost identical. In fact they are sister ships both owned by Carnival Cruise lines. Also in common, they both suffered major incidents, both incidents … Continue reading
Reality Bites in Consulting
An optimist, a pessimist and a cynic went into a restaurant. On the table waiting were three partially filled glasses of water. The optimist said “look my glass is half full! “and took a drink. The pessimist said “Look my … Continue reading
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The Assassin of Discontent – A Great Project
In March 1963 Boeing assembled a group of engineers to create the world’s largest passenger and cargo aircraft, the Boeing 747. Almost 6 years from the day that group was formed, the first 747 took the sky on its maiden … Continue reading
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Ensuring substance not just the form of communication
A while ago I spent 40 minutes of valuable time having a presentation broadcast to me that I had: already reviewed provided important commentary on the content in the hopes of revising it and had that commentary subsequently ignored without … Continue reading
Choosing your role – Just Another Eagle
A wise and perhaps a tad acerbic colleague of mine once commented on my then pending decision to change consulting companies with the following advice. “If you stay you will always be an eagle among turkeys, but if you go … Continue reading
What’s wrong with Arrogance?
When you are accused of being arrogant there are three possibilities: you are actually arrogant your behavior is being perceived as arrogant the person making the assessment is, as usual, wrong about you or the definition of the word arrogant … Continue reading
The World’s Most Expensive Consultant
Purportedly, the world’s most expensive consultant bills out at $120,000 (USD) per day. That’s $15,000 per hour or $250 per minute… and he is fully booked. He studied clarinet at the Julliard School of Music, dropped out of Columbia University … Continue reading
How to Make More Money in Consulting
The “Jack of All Trades, Master of None” Consultant. This is the consultant that can write some C# code, do a bit of SQL, understand basic database design, code up a web page, knows how to build a basic web … Continue reading
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Choice–Where is your IT career going?
“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan In his memoir “Idea Man” he quotes his colleagues … Continue reading
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Infinite Shades of Grey 