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The following is an excerpt from by Christopher Meyer, with Julia D. Kirby. Meyer is an innovator and the founder of Monitor Talent.

When Prophet launched its Analytics practice earlier this year, it tapped James Walker, a 20-year Analytics veteran with an entrepreneurial background, to lead it.

Publish or perish. The axiom of tenured college professors must also be the mantra of all consultants. Yet, while getting published may be the end-all for the professor, it is just the beginning for the consultant. Leveraging your publications is the key to success. Without doing that, you too are merely going through an academic exercise.

Clichéd as it may sound; a management consultant is hired by a firm to ‘add value’. But what is value? How is it measured? And how can the consultant process and articulate such value to her client in simple, non-confounding terms?

Burdened by a slew of mixed platforms and out-of-date, fragmented technologies, the Portland Trail Blazers organization, an NBA franchise since 1970, needed a way to make their legacy systems support more collaboration while still being easy to maintain. So the Trail Blazers looked for an assist, and got it, from Seattle-based Slalom Consulting.

The enterprise social platforms market, which represents one of many components of corporate social media spending, was a mere $370 million in 2009, according to IDC; by 2014, this spending should surpass $2 billion.