Archive for Resource Management
The Advisor’s Corner – When Should Consultants Be Used?
Question: We’ve brought in a number of high priced consultants to perform a business case analysis. In hind sight, it appears we could have done the same work with internal resources. Why then did we hire these costly advisors? StrategyDriven Response: There are many reasons for hiring consultants. One or more of these likely applied [...]
Read moreConnecting with the ‘Overqualified’ Job Candidate: Why the Highly Skilled Candidate May Be the Best One for the Job (and Five Ways to Connect With Her)
These days, any position that becomes available generates a deluge of résumés. If your policy is to automatically discard those belonging to candidates you deem as ‘overqualified,’ it’s time to rethink your strategy. Here’s why. When a job opens up in today’s economy, it receives a lot of attention. And no wonder: Over 15 million [...]
Read moreFive Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved, but it takes alignment to get it optimized
A catalog retailer wants to better manage its call centers, direct mail and e-mail channels. The millions of customers in its database represent the gamut of buying histories, buying propensities, profitability, demographics and cost to serve. Given capacity and costs for each channel, which customers should receive which offers through which channels? What will happen [...]
Read moreThe Business of Innovation – The Execution Plan
Innovation is the introduction of new things or methods and is the life blood of business today. Innovative companies realize remarkable marketplace rewards. The challenge before leaders is how to inspire their workforce to use the full measure of their creative power to advance the organization in new and better ways. The Business of Innovation [...]
Read moreResource Management Best Practice 5 – Staggering Project Starts
The spike in demand for consultants, services, and products around the first of the year (or in the government’s case the beginning of October) appears to be a natural part of the business cycle. The fact that there is an onrush in spending, however, suggests the existence of an artificial driver. Truth be told, it’s [...]
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