Consulting
Credit cruch change - what’s in it for me?
Making the connection between the idea and the delivery needs more than just a proven consulting method. By understanding the “what’s in it for me question” change can be better managed and success achieved more readily.
If you can answer this question for your key stakeholders then you are halfway home. Next time you write [...]
Avoiding the crunch in mergers and acquisitions
Phil Richardson of Thoughtcrew talks to Danny Davies from DD Consulting about the mergers and acquisition marketplace. Danny runs DDConsulting and is a trustee for the Chartered Institute of Management. Here are the questions and answers from that session. If you want to ask a question then please use the comments section or you can [...]
Business creation with biomimetics
“Business Biomimetics is the broadening out of the Biomimetics concept to include solving the problems associated with business strategy. We have developed a number of models and processes that allow business leaders to examine a business problem and identify aspects of biological systems that can help them think differently about their problem. It also helps [...]
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30% growth possible using lessons from the sand crab
Last night Phil Richardson presented a talk on biomimetics in Bath to the Marketing Network. A wide range of people attended including an MD of a successful high growth senior interim businesses, innovation people from FMCG businesses and marketing professionals. Phil presented the sand crab and demonstrated how this biological system could be used to [...]
Dodgy Docs
This is bespoke training for front line customer service staff. You have probably been told that part of your job is to look for documents that are either forgeries or have been tampered with. However have you ever had any proper training? Would you know how to look for UV marks? Do you know the [...]
Consultancy fees - the day rate vs. the value delivered
Where possible we avoid day rates. The reason for this is that they force all the wrong sort of behaviours from both us and our clients. We would much rather have a discussion about the value we added and then agree what that is worth. We would be delighted to have a chat with anyone [...]
Nobody hires a consultant because they have a great method!
Nobody hires consultants because they have a method. But it’s important to know that there is at least some structure to the approach a consultancy will take. At Thoughtcrew we take a framework approach - only using what we need.
However if you feel that method is a key determining factor in selecting a consultancy [...]
What is internal consulting?
There are two key stakeholders behind this question. The first is the head of the internal consulting team, who is often frustrated by the inflexibility of the organisation. They are probably an ex-”big” consultancy leader and suddenly find that all is not what it seems. Fortunately there is hope…….
The second stakeholder is the CEO or [...]
Come and challenge us to think bigger!
As consultants we get a buzz from improving the clients position. We really enjoy the feeling of tackling a problem alongside the client and then being able to demonstrate that we have a working solution. This means that we don’t like being told what to do (come and run a workshop, facilitate a meeting, interview [...]
