If you want to avoid expensive AI plans, this post from Ethan Williams may point you in the right direction. “Unlimited AI” often ends up being the most expensive plan you can buy. Especially if you’re a light or moderate user. Here’s what vendors won’t tell you: In traditional SaaS, “unlimited” made sense. One more […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Arnaud Wisnia. Arnaud is joining after a 25-year career in the chemicals, metals and mining industries, including 7 years at McKinsey’s Brussels office. Arnaud’s consulting vision is to work with his clients to build […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Emily Ellis with FintastIQ. Emily is the founder of FintastIQ, a growth and value creation consultancy that helps PE-backed portfolio companies and B2B businesses at scale expand revenue and margin through smarter pricing, packaging, […]
Jessica White shares strategies to identify and mitigate stakeholder burnout to improve project success rate. In project management, the stakes can be incredibly high. Projects can either succeed brilliantly or falter, often depending on the complex dynamics of stakeholder behavior. As project managers steer through these challenges, they not only strive to produce results but […]
Patrick Norton shares his review of The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel III. In this video, StratThink reviews The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel III. Walter Kiechel spent his career in journalism gathering the stories, […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Hind Ouzzani with HO Investing and Consulting. Hind is a senior executive and advisor with 18 years of experience leading strategy, operations, and business transformation in complex, highly regulated and international environments. She has […]
Christophe De Greift addresses the risks of cognitive bias in AI projects. Why do so many AI projects fail? We often point to unclear business cases, data quality or stakeholder support, but I suspect there’s another culprit hiding in plain sight: cognitive bias. I’m not talking about biases in AI models – fairness, representativeness, algorithmic […]
Erhan Civelek highlights the costly patterns and mistakes of GCC holding companies, and identifies a few fixes. The $50B Question GCC Boardrooms Won’t Answer I’ve watched 50+ GCC holding companies destroy $50B in value over the last decade. The pattern is always the same. Look at Abu Dhabi’s investment ecosystem: IHC: AED 1.1T in assets, […]
As the new year slides into routine, Geoffrey Zassenhaus shares an evergreen reminder on the cost of unnecessary meetings and suggests a radical approach. Recently, a study was published highlighting that the typical large company wastes over $100MM in unnecessary meetings. Shocking, yes. Surprising? Probably not. Moreover, our common lived experience during the COVID pandemic […]
Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Erhan Civelek with ECVLK Consulting. Erhan is a senior strategy, transformation, and M&A integration executive with 25+ years of experience across Europe, MENA, and Turkey. He has held leadership roles at top-tier consulting firms […]
Susan Zelenka shares how experiences from seemingly unrelated jobs brought knowledge and value to her current position. Or: What Wicked teaches us about defying gravity in our careers With Wicked: For Good hitting theaters this week, my theater-kid heart is having a moment. And it’s making me think about how the skills I learned backstage […]
Tony Zheng shares a case study on improving systems reliability and data accuracy for a software inventory management company. Customer Overview & Challenge A software inventory management company partnered with OpsArmy to improve the accuracy and reliability of their procurement workflows. As their systems grew in complexity, they faced increasing challenges ensuring data fidelity and […]