Attending conferences is a time and money-intensive effort. You take time out of your consulting practice, often travel a far distance, and so you want to get a return on your investment (ROI). A few years ago before Confab, by chance I pulled out a book I had bought and flipped it open to preview [...]

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LinkedIn? “Okay, if I have to….” Facebook? “Maybe, to connect with my kids and grandkids….” Twitter? “Are you kidding me?” I’ve been speaking on Social Media Marketing for the last two years. At first whenever I said the word “Twitter,” people in the audience laughed. A majority sat there with their arms crossed, as if [...]

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The sign of the times is most prominently found in the M&A market for consulting firms; for example PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to acquire Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Inc. for $378 million. To continue growing the larger firms are actively seeking and acquiring smaller firms in cash heavy deals that are turning very lucrative for the [...]

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The Labor Day weekend typically marks the end of summer vacations and the beginning of the fall work schedule. Generally most schools are back in session and most companies are ramping back up with meetings and projects. This year, though, it seems that things are lagging an extra week. Here it is Friday and there [...]

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In a follow up to the August 31 blog post covering negative feelings towards management consultants at Boeing, here, we came across this “The Atlantic” article titled About My Job: The Management Consultant. The author addresses the major complaint against management consultants by delving down to the heart of the matter. The complaint against management [...]

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Boeing is currently under the gun with continued delays and reschedules on their much anticipated new jetliner. With the heat on the leadership team they have turned to an outside management consulting firm to offer serious recommendations for change. In this op-ed piece from The Seattle Times author Jon Talton discusses his opinion on the [...]

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One of the biggest, and most unpleasant, surprises to face the newly self-employed is the higher level of taxation that often comes with that self-employed status. When you are working for someone else, your employer shoulders a great deal of the tax burden that accrues from keeping you on the payroll. But when you leave [...]

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The process consultants go through to start a consulting business vary by trade, personality, and goals but in the end we all follow the same general path to success. Confab 2010 is focused on helping consultants grow and improve their business. To this end we have just posted a brief primer for would be consultants [...]

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Here it is 2010 and there are still articles coming out discussing the upcoming wave of the “paperless office”. A Canadian story from this week cites a graduate student’s research project that found many consumers and businesses still prefer paper receipts, invoices, and archiving over digital copies (link). In March, CNN ran a story on [...]

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June 26 came and went and we are guessing that no one sent you flowers or took you out for that nice business luncheon. Why should they have you ask? Because June 26 was International Consultant Day. Designated a few years back by the top IMC managing board the day was intended to remind people [...]

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