Hari Sripathi shares an article on how Waymo (formerly known as the Google self-driving car project) will monetize and scale their business. Autonomous driving will be huge a beneficiary of the lingering effects of social distancing. Just as with e-Commerce for grocery, telemedicine and video conferencing, the pandemic has lowered one of the biggest, most […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Curt Andersson with Flynn Fisk. Curt is the Managing Director of Flynn Fisk, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategy, artificial intelligence, and operations performance. Prior to Flynn Fisk, he was a senior consulting partner at The Mitchell Madison Group and served in leadership positions as President, North American […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Bern Ebersole with Fort Hill Partners. Bern spent five years at McKinsey, serving primarily corporations in the energy and industrial sectors and private equity firms. He focused largely on operations strategy and improvements to asset performance and cost structure. After leaving McKinsey, he began consulting independently for lower middle market companies […]
Nora Ghaoui shares an article on how to keep building your consulting pipeline even when it’s a tough year. Building a consulting pipeline is tough in any year. In 2020, the uncertainty caused by the pandemic made companies cautious, so it was harder to get projects agreed and started. I tried out different actions to […]
What does your consulting firm really do? Can you communicate your consulting firm’s mission — who you serve and what you do — to your clients in just one sentence? If not, you aren’t alone. Summarizing your business in just a few words can be an intimidating task. Fortunately, consulting expert David A. Fields has […]
Having a solid content strategy brings a number of benefits to independent consultants. Here are the five types of content every consultant needs to utilize. Jake Jorgovan of Content Allies shared these five types of content for consultants in a Webinar for the Umbrex community. Before diving into the five types, he outlined just why […]
If you are looking for a new way to build your brand and reputation, consider hosting thought leadership executive events. Umbrex member Amanda Setili of Setili & Associates shared her process and tips how to plan thought leadership events with the Umbrex community in a virtual webinar. Setili began setting up such events in 2011 […]
Andrew Seay shares an article on the MECE framework and how it makes large inventory problems manageable. How do you eat an elephant? The answer, of course, is “one bite at a time.” The same principle applies to all big problems, including those in the supply chain. A $50M inventory problem is far too large […]
Diane Mulcahy shares an article published in the Harvard Review that explores how the indicators of success in the gig economy are changing. The winners and losers in the U.S. economy have traditionally been easy to identify. If you had a full-time job, you won. A full-time job provided the steady income needed to support […]
The skill of persuasion is an important one to hone. Here we share some top strategies for building influence and persuasion. The Harvard Business Review did research that revealed the top personal — or soft — skills of successful entrepreneurs. The number one skill was persuasion. “The quality serial entrepreneurs displayed above others was persuasion, […]
Stuck for ideas on how to market your independent consultant practice to bring in new clients and projects? Here are 21 business development ideas, along with links to relevant episodes of our Unleashed podcast where applicable. Editorial note: This article was originally published in January 2021 and was updated in April 2022. 1) Start a […]
There is a difference between being good at what you do, and being recognized for being good at it. But how do you become a recognized expert in your field, and establish your reputation as a thought leader? That was the topic of a recent Umbrex Presents conversation with Dorie Clark, a Wall Street Journal […]
