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If someone asked you for a good synonym for inspiration, what would you say? Some might answer that stimulation is a good substitute.

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The new management buzzword appears to be “Engagement,” and like most management buzzwords there are many worthy people sitting down to educate the rest of us about what engagement is.

Thinking about selling your company, buying a competitor, or maybe raising capital? You need a deal team with the right mix of talent and experiences to get the best value and to assure the transaction happens.

With so many articles, white papers, studies, and so on, floating around in online and offline publications, you have to wonder about the effectiveness of all this writing.

The first step if officers arrive unannounced is to contact the Legal or HR department.

As the global economy continues to tighten, most businesses appreciate they won’t get different results by doing things the same way.

When all is said and done, everybody wants to know they have made a difference in someone’s life.

The age of social networking is more than upon us-it is becoming INGRAINED in us.

The horizons of ambitious managers today embrace the globe.

Is your company taking advantage of market churn and chaos to refresh your growth strategy? Regardless of company size, stage or industry everyone has felt some impact from the recent years’ economic turmoil.

Today’s executives expect you to have done your homework before meeting them.

Despite the recent recovery in global trading conditions, a significant risk from supplier failure still exists.

Context Bearing all of that in mind, we need to approach mobile marketing differently.

Your phone has the Internet.

Over the past ten years Java and .Net have come to dominate enterprise development; over the same period there has been steady stream of frameworks purportedly designed to make the coding easier.

Consulting entrepreneurs who sell their firms must pay capital gains tax (CGT) on money generated by the sale of all or part of the business.

If your business has a web site, it probably includes an "About" page.

It’s important to have the right mix of senior and junior people in an organisation, for example, senior consultants may not be thrilled with the prospect of being assigned to tasks that they consider minor or trivial.

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The Companies Act 2006 is the longest statute in English Law.

We have seen in recent weeks the joy with which the press seem to have jumped onto the back of Toyota when they recalled some of their vehicles due to unforeseen design faults.

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A ton of advice is available on every conceivable aspect of selling services, and some of it is very good.

Download the full article here. Further information John Niland is presenting at the Top-Consultant.com conference Sink or Swim – can you adapt to the harsh new consulting environment? on 23rd March.

Garden leave is routinely used by companies as a way of keeping staff who are leaving a job – through choice or otherwise – away from work during their notice period.

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Sales are falling, communication is lacking and motivation is at a seasonal low.

Good Work can seem a rather off-putting concept for the average business leader.

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Capgemini Consulting, the global strategy and transformation consulting brand of the Capgemini Group, together with the University of St.

Weak analytics capabilities – ranging from siloed data, outdated technology and a lack of analytical talent – are preventing organizations from gaining valuable insight that could lead to better business results, according to findings of a survey by Accenture.

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Is the Annual Public Sector Budgetary Cycle ‘fit for purpose’ in these financially constrained times? Around this time every year organisations across the public sector are in the later stages of setting their budgets for the next financial year.

The automotive crisis in 2008/2009 has left behind deep scars on suppliers.

According to the study, based on a survey of more than 400 business leaders globally as well as a year-long field analysis of business and technology developments, such maturing technologies as cloud computing, mobile communications and collaborative computing will offer companies the “hidden wiring” required to compete in a multi-polar world, one in which emerging markets are challenging the traditional strengths of more mature economies.

What principles govern the success of a brand? How should a new brand be introduced? What should be considered during a brand relaunch? And what's the best way to expand a brand into a new category? The answers to these questions can be found in a study entitled "Brand excellence – 10 Years of the Brand Awards: Learn from the best!" The study presents case studies on the winners of the brand awards given by absatzwirtschaft from 2001 to 2009.

Age has been grabbing the headlines over the past few months, most recently with Harriet Harman bestowing a rather annoying new label on the cohort of healthy, active, older people, the “wellderly”.

The third week in May is a very special week in Annapolis, MD.

As consultants, it is not unusual to spend most of the working day in meetings or surrounded by reports, facts and figures.

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