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• Webinar - Consulting magazine Best Practices Webinar on Overcoming Growing Pains - June 12, 2013


• Webinar - Consulting magazine Best Practices Webinar on Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Unprofitable Projects - June 26, 2013


• Consulting Summit - October 24, 2013

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• Women in Consulting Leadership Awards
• Top 25 Consultants
• Best Firms To Work For
• Seven Small Jewels

Kennedy Corner

• »The Water’s Nice; Jump In
  The market for new market entry strategy consulting is about resources and incentives. It’s a not too hot, not too cold, but just right equation.
• »The New War For Talent
  When a meteorite blazed through the morning skies of central Russia in mid-February and exploded, the news media described it as a rare event. And it was. Fast forward one month and just about every government in the world is looking at the potential for a "rare event" to visit their borders, and wringing their hands over how to prepare for it.
• »Here Comes Patient-Centric Health
  U.S consumers are accustomed to choices. We often take for granted our ability to select products, price points and preferred channels. Why, then, do we as patients expect anything less from our healthcare providers?
• »The Market Always Finds a Way
  In the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park, the protagonists discovered at one point (to their horror) that the island’s dinosaurs, which had all been created the same gender, had somehow managed to reproduce. “Life always finds a way,” muttered Sam Neill’s character Dr. Alan Grant.
• »2012 in Review, and a Look Ahead
  Looking back, several market forces propelled global consulting demand, causing firms and clients to undertake larger and more ambitious engagements than in recent years. The rapidly changing nature of client needs and the continued evolution of provider capabilities converged around some key themes.
• »Change and Collaboration—The Rx For a Healthy Life Sciences Industry
  For many of us in the U.S., it’s time to update healthcare benefit selections and learn of new or revised healthcare insurance plan offerings, options, and features. In many ways, the change and complexity we face as end users reflects the upstream challenges facing the healthcare industry at large.

Travel Advisory

• »FAA: ‘Staffing Challenges’ Causing Delays
  In case you haven’t noticed, non-weather related delays at U.S. airports are on the rise. (And I know you’ve noticed that weather-related delays are definitely on the rise.)
• »Hilton’s Building Boom
  Coming off a whirlwind 2012, Hilton Worldwide is the fastest growing global hospitality company by number of rooms.
• »Extended Stay America Serves Up Free Breakfasts With ‘Grab and Go’
  Extended Stay America launched a new Grab and Go Breakfast program, which is available seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at all of its more than 600 locations.
• »Homewood Suites Survey: Comfort is King
  A new survey of frequent business travelers found that they want more room to spread out, the ability to maintain a normal routine and opportunities to interact with business associates and fellow travelers.

Book It!

• »Excerpt: Finding Your Firm’s Growth Engine
  The following is an excerpt from Leading Firms: How Great Professional Service Firms Succeed & How Your Firm Can Too by David C. Kuhlman. In the book, Kuhlman distills 25 years of
  experience advising senior management at some of the world’s most prominent consulting firms. This excerpt from Chapter Six: “The Growth Engine” explores two of the key factors driving growth in the most successful firms.
• »Excerpt: The Online Marketing Revolution
  The following is an excerpt from Online Marketing for Professional Services, a thought-provoking and practical approach to online marketing by authors Aaron E. Taylor, Sylvia Montgomery, Sean T. McVey and Lee W. Frederiksen.
• »Review: Tipping Sacred Cows
  We all have those sacred cows at work, but these nuggets of advice, in practice, can lead to career-limiting unintended consequences.
• »Review: Playing to Win
  If strategy is about creating a competitive advantage that allows a firm to win, then pinpointing your strategy to just a few choices will dramatically increase your chances of success.
• »Review: Seeing the Big Picture
  According to Kevin Cope, founder of Acumen Learning and author of Seeing the Big Picture, all companies are driven to success or failure by the same five simple drivers—cash, profit, assets, growth and people
• »Review: Get Lucky
  As the pace of change accelerates and the volume of information explodes, everyone is under great pressure to connect with the people and ideas we need to thrive.