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Coldplay Viva La Vida Chords Pdf
Tags: News, SEO, Videos, Love, Music

[Intro]

C D G Em x2





[Verse 1]

Em C D

I used to rule the world

G Em

Seas would rise when I gave the word

C D

Now in the morning I sleep alone

G Em

Sweep the streets I used to own





[Interlude]

C D G Em x2





[Verse 2]

Em C D

I used to roll the dice

G Em

Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes

C D

Listen as the crowd would sing:

G Em

“Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”

Em C D

One minute I held the key

G Em

Next the walls were closed on me

C D

And I discovered that my castles stand

G Em

Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand





[Chorus]

C D

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

G Em

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

G Em

My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

G Em C D

Once you go there was never, never an honest word

Bm Em

That was when I ruled the world





[Interlude]

C D G Em x2





[Verse 3]

Em C D

It was the wicked and wild wind

G Em

Blew down the doors to let me in.

C D

Shattered windows and the sound of drums

G Em

People couldn’t believe what I’d become

Em C D

Revolutionaries wait

G Em

For my head on a silver plate

C D

Just a puppet on a lonely string

G Em

Oh who would ever want to be king?





[Chorus]

C D

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

G Em

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

G Em

My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

G Em

I know Saint Peter won’t call my name ,

C D

never an honest word

Bm Em

But that was when I ruled the world





[Interlude]

C Em x3

D x2

C D G Em x2

(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)





[Chorus]

C D

I hear Jerusalem bells are ringing

G Em

Roman Cavalry choirs are singing

C D

Be my mirror, my sword, and shield

G Em

My missionaries in a foreign field

C D

For some reason I can’t explain

G Em

I know Saint Peter won’t call my name ,

C D

never an honest word

Bm Em

But that was when I ruled the world





[Outro]

C D Bm Em

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Difference Between Video Production And Video Marketing
By: Libesh Services
Tags: YouTube, Videos, Videogames, Article To Video, Video Marketing

Video production and video marketing is two different fields dealing with same subject of video. Read this article to get more.

Video production means making videos of any kind while video marketing means making videos to reach out different audiences and channels. Both offer different services though nature and disciplines overlap each other. One involves with the creation and production process while other involves with the end process or marketing process. Most of the people get confused over the terms video production and video marketing, here in this article I will try to explore the difference between them. Let’s start with:

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ESG Development in Mexican Financials
By: Marimar Torreblanca
Tags: Consulting, Esg Investing, Financial, Esg, Environment

November 5th, 2020

This week, we are sharing our ESG Development Heatmap for the last sector we were missing in the Mexican market: Financials (split into Banks and Non-Bank Financials). As in the past, we only focused on (1) companies listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange and (2) publicly disclosed materials.

Banks

Non-Bank Financials

What can we read from this heatmap?

62.5% of banks and 33.3% of non-bank financials have done a materiality analysis. Four banks disclose some KPIs for some of their material topics, but no company in either group discloses KPIs for all material topics together with goals for these KPIs. 62.5% of banks and 50% of non-bank financials have a dedicated team or committee for ESG. 75% of banks and 50% of non-bank financials are aligned with UN’s SDGs. 62.5% of banks and 50% of non-bank financials are signatories of the UN Global Compact. Only 1 bank is aligned with both TCFD and Science Based Targets, while no non-bank financials are. 3 banks (37.5%) are aligned with CDP, and no non-bank financials are. 75% of banks and 66% of non-bank financials published an integrated or sustainability report in 2019. 60% of these reports had external verification. 80% of these reports were done under GRI’s methodology. No company reports SASB’s indicators.

The Financials sector seems to be one of the early adopters of ESG in Mexico, at least as far as ESG communication goes. Banks, in particular, seem to be ahead of the curve with one of the most active companies in terms of ESG in Mexico (Banorte) leading by example. Non-bank Financials still have a lot to do in terms of going through a formal process of materiality and KPIs definition. We would also expect the adoption of SASB indicators to start permeating into this sector as soon as in the next reporting season given the push from investors for this.

I hope you found this interesting. As usual, if there is anything we can help you with, please reach out.

Best,

Marimar

Partner, Miranda ESG
ESG Development in Mexican Consumer Discretionary
By: Marimar Torreblanca
Tags: Consulting, Consumer, Esg, Environment, Finance

October 15th, 2020

This week, we are sharing our ESG Development Heatmap for one new sector in Mexico: Consumer Discretionary (which under the BMV’s sector definition includes Lodging as well). As in the past, we only focused on (1) companies listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange and (2) publicly disclosed materials.

Consumer Discretionary

What can we read from this heatmap?

Only 47% of these companies have done a materiality analysis, and this goes down to 33% if you consider only the companies that did so in the past 3 years. Just 3 companies share KPIs for some of their material topics, but no company shares KPIs for all their material topics (nor targets for any of them). 40% of these companies have a dedicated team or committee for ESG. 47% of them are aligned with the UN’s SDGs. No Consumer Discretionary company is aligned with TCFD, and only one company is aligned with Science Based Targets. Barely 13% of these companies are aligned with CDP. No more than 27% of them are signatories of the UN Global Compact. 60% of these companies have published an integrated or sustainability report in the past couple of years. All of them but two were done under GRI’s methodology. Only 1 of these reports was externally verified. Just 1 company in this sector reports SASB indicators.

The Consumer Discretionary sector seems below average in terms of ESG Development. While more than half communicate their sustainability strategies, less than half have done materiality analyses. Furthermore, just a few companies align to globally recognized sustainability initiatives which forces them to report under stricter guidelines. There seems to be significant upside in terms of KPIs development.

I hope you found this interesting. As usual, if there is anything we can help you with, please reach out.

Best,

Marimar

Partner, Miranda ESG
Developing Expertise
By: Joshua Hoering
Tags: Consulting, Learning, Innovation, Business, Technology

1. Principles

To begin, develop a wide and thorough vocabulary. This enables a person to understand the core elements in a field, but more importantly: communicate with people about the field. This vocabulary in our memory helps us recognize elements at a fundamental level and later conceptually map how these elements relate to one another. These fundamental truths about a field are called principles.

This way of thinking is known as First Principles, which Aristotle said:
SEO Consulting Services and Advertisement/Marketing Agencies
By: Harry H. Nixon
Tags: Consulting, Marketing, SEO, Advertising, Seo Services

For any leading agency for advertisement, it is mandatory to undertake and excel in the project’s optimization on all relevant platforms i.e., search engines. Although to the advertisement agencies of smaller scale, it remains moot to do so, in order to expand the wings and projects in the superficially indirect modes, it is important to upkeep with the SEO consulting services as well.

Why is it important?

To understand the importance of the services pertaining to SEO with regard to the working of any advertisement and marketing agency, it is important to understand the general layout, even if in simple terms.

Any agency is approached by a customer or potential client so that his product, website, services, or any such other thing, can land on his client’s vision or screen. To achieve such a purpose, he approaches the agency to come up with the idea to reproduce the features and characters of his services, etc., and throw it in the market to create a fresh nudge and reproduce, in consequence, the image of the business and its offerings.

Now, the agency undertakes the responsibility to boost such offerings of their client to achieve the client’s goals for him. They will design electronic posts, banners, and whatever else falls within the scope of the arrangement. However, in today’s world, it has become quite relevant that the online and electronic presence remains prevalent and for such reasons e-support to such offering is pivotal.

To overcome such shortcomings and discrepancies to the future desired, the first and foremost requirement becomes the ranking of the product’s URL or of the website; as the first thing which engages the consumer or a user is the website’s rank on a search engine. You are most likely to click and use the first or second website you find on the search engine then you are to a link found on the 30th, 40th, or even 4th page of the engine being used.

This would increase not only the reach of the client’s offerings across the board while maintaining a long-term impact instead of the turn of a few days or a month, but this would increase the profit margins of the respective marketing or advertisement agency exponentially as well, all while ensuring the better results.

This, in my opinion, is the better and greatly far-sighted option to engage with and in, this not only guarantees the sustainability of the already undergoing inline and physical advertisement activities of the agency but expand the network of their work and industry to a whole another level.
ESG Development in Mexican Food & Bev
By: Marimar Torreblanca
Tags: Consulting, Food And Beverage, Esg, Environment, Finance

September 24th, 2020

This week, we are sharing our ESG Development Heatmap for one new sector in Mexico: Food & Beverage. As in the past, we only focused on (1) companies listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange and (2) publicly disclosed materials.

Food & Beverage

What can we read from these heatmaps?

42% of these companies have done a materiality analysis, but only 16% of them have done so in the past 3 years. Three companies share some of the KPIs and the KPI goals they use for some of their material topics, but no company in either sector share KPIs and KPI goals for all their material topics. Half of companies in this sector are aligned with the UN’s SDGs and are signatories of the UN Global Compact. No company in this sector is aligned with TCFD. Only 1 company in this sector (Coca Cola Femsa) is aligned with Science Based Targets. One third of the companies in this sector are aligned with CDP. 75% of these companies have published an integrated or sustainability report at least once (and therefore share their social and environmental initiatives); two thirds of these companies have published a report in the past couple of years. 77% of these reports are done under GRI’s methodology. 55% of these reports are externally verified. No company in this sector reports SASB indicators.

The Food & Bev sector still has a lot of room for improvement in terms of ESG development. While most of these companies are open in terms of reporting, we would have expected to see more materiality analyses (and more updated analyses) overall.

I hope you found this interesting. As usual, if there is anything we can help you with, please reach out.

Best,

Marimar

Partner, Miranda ESG
Career Vs Job. Although work and career are often used…
By: Enr Consultancy Services
Tags: Startup, Consulting, Jobs, Enr, Careers

Although work and career are often used to mean the same thing, they often have different meanings. Career generally refers to an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress. Conversely, employment refers to a regular paid position of employment. The main difference between work and career is that career is a long term search while a job is a long term search.

Career is an occupation that needs special training or education and is followed like a person’s job. It is a long-term pursuit of a lifelong ambition. Career is undertaken for an important period of a person’s life and offers opportunities for progress.

Career can also refer to a series of related job opportunities, where you can move on to higher-paying and more prestigious job opportunities through the development of skills and the acquisition of experience. For example, medical students look into a career in medicine. They receive training and special education at medical universities. So they work as residents or house officers in a hospital or clinic. All of these steps are required to progress in their career.

Work, unlike career, is short-term research. It is an activity through which a person earns money. He’s filling a role in exchange for money. Special training or formal education is not usually required to perform a job. For example, students, retirees take part-time jobs to earn money. None of them considers these jobs as their careers. They may not enjoy their work or have no real interest in the field, but they would still do so because the main purpose of a job is to earn money. Convenient clerks, gas station attendants, dog walkers, newspaper delivery, etc. They are all jobs. Individuals do these jobs to earn money; they usually have no intention of pursuing a career without these jobs.

What to do?

Do you aim to have a career? You must work toward meeting that long-term goal.

· Continue learning and developing

It is important to Improve your skills and knowledge. Look after several qualifications while practising in your current job. Focus on professionals in your area of interest and ask yourself what their strengths, talents or accomplishments are, you could ask for their advice.

· Mentorship

Search for a mentor with an upper-level position or experience in your desired field. In this way you can improve your skills or simply ask specific questions.

· Expand your network

Workshops, conferences, seminars and social events can be great places to meet professionals in your field. expand your network means to have more resources for sharing experiences, learning, gaining advice and even job recommendations.

· Apply for an internship

It is necessary to build your own experience in your career field, so an internship can help you advance or break into that sector. You could search for certification opportunities and for internships that can help you gain proper and specific experience.
From College to Tech &Consulting. On June 2019, I graduated with a…
By: Arturo Lopez
Tags: Accenture, Interview, Consulting, Software Development

On June 2019, I graduated with a Computer Science degree from UC Santa Cruz. I didn’t have a job lined up, so I went back home and started applying. I wouldn’t consider my path to be traditional one, but I did learn somethings along the way that I’d like to share.

Working while job hunting

Within a couple weeks after graduation, I started working in construction. Before my first day on the job, my boss knew that I was a recent grad and was looking for a job in tech. He was okay with it, and simply asked me to give him a notice when I was ready to move on.

In construction, I usually worked 8–10 hours a day. Once I was off work, I would spend my evenings doing coding challenges, practicing interviews, and applying to software engineering jobs.

I did this for a few months, till an opportunity came up for me. 60 applications later, and with the help of friends and mentors, I got an interview at Accenture.

Accenture

My introduction to Accenture was through a referral from a friend. I spoke to him about my career goals, and he told me about his experience at Accenture and what they do. I saw myself growing at Accenture, and I liked the work culture he described. It was also a good match for me because I enjoy working with people and tech. In consulting, I’m able to do both.

A couple of my friends supported me by helping me through the interview process. But in order to get my foot in the door, I needed to put in the work myself.

I spent hours a day prepping for each interview. The first two were about getting to know me, my career interests, and how I see myself fitting in at Accenture. My third interview was a behavioral one, and I practiced the STAR Method for that. The fourth was a Case interview. The final was a closing interview, which was a less formal in person meeting with a manager.

Consulting companies, like Accenture, do case interviews as a way to see how you would handle a business scenario for a client. When doing this type of interview, you should demonstrate problem solving and communication skills. What I mean by this is, show the interviewer that you are able to analyze the situation, come up with some suggestions for the client, and communicate your ideas. To study for this interview I read articles, watched youtube videos, and practiced by myself and with others.

There are a couple other things that helped me during the interview process. Because I was applying to a technical role, I talked about my internship with a small software startup. I also used class projects to talk about team work and software development. Having worked in customer service, I learned of the importance of delivering the most value to the customer/client. This is important in many places, especially in consulting.
WG happenings: Wemanage Group and 1Caffè Onlus Partner for Holiday Initiative
By: Wemanage Group
Tags: Consulting, Marketing, Digital, Luxury, Fashion

A project by Wemanage Group

Wemanage Group is happy to support 1Caffe, the non-profit organization that helps small Italian non-profit associations, through the distribution of 150 Christmas packages to the homeless of Milan who live in the following areas: San Babila, Missori, Corso Matteotti, San Carlo, Vittorio Emanuele, which will be distributed on December 22, 2020.

1 Caffè is the non-profit organization founded and led by Beniamino Savio, Luca Argentero, Francesca Argentero, Silvia Bellesso and Federica Fini. Born six years ago, it is the first digital onlus born to support small Italian non-profit associations, through a simple and daily gesture.

The non-profit organization to which the support will be directed this year is InVetta!

InVetta! is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 by a group of friends of the Parish of San Simpliciano, in Milan. The Onlus is a container of free charitable and educational initiatives, in favor of people living in situations of particular difficulty. Some of the initiatives have included summer camps for young people, humanitarian convoys in complicated territories, and initiatives for the homeless. Since 2015, the association has kicked off initiatives specifically oriented towards helping homeless people, with an innovative and effective approach.

The Christmas package in collaboration with 1Caffè will contain goods needed in this historical period, in addition to a small Christmas gift, ranging from food, hygiene/health equipment (masks, disinfectant gels, shampoo and shower foam for example) as well as underwear and socks and finally, thermal equipment for the cold, so as to give something useful in view of the winter season. The gift pack will also be distributed in cloth bags that can also be reused, hoping that this collaboration can be useful and can give some happiness to the homeless.

This project in support of InVetta! will support the objective of the non-profit organization to give a sign of proximity and closeness to people living on the street. The ultimate purpose is that of becoming trustworthy supporters, able to respond with support to the different needs of our beneficiaries, with the ultimate intent to redirect the homeless towards paths of social reintegration and employment.

This donation is the first in a series of initiatives that Wemanage Group hopes to commit to in the future.
How do I Renew my SAM Registration 2020?
Tags: Sam Registration, Consulting, Small Business, Federal Government, Federal Contracts

If you need to work with the central government (and many state governments), you need a functioning posting in the System for Award Management (SAM) information base. On the off chance that you’ve just finished this cycle, it is critical to realize when and how to restore SAM Registration and we can help.

When Should You Renew SAM Registration?

Your SAM Registration is dynamic for one year from the day the public authority favors your underlying SAM enlistment. So you may think you should simply restore a couple of days or seven days before the lapse date. In any case, you should begin contemplating how to reestablish SAM Registration a while ahead of time.

Government organizations can just work with substances that have a functioning SAM enrollment. In the event that an acquirement specialist (the best possible term for an administration representative entrusted with choosing contractual workers) sees that your SAM enlistment is inside two or less months of the lapse date, they may be watchful about working with you.

This is since, supposing that you are in an agreement and your enrollment terminates, the public authority is not, at this point approved to lead business with you or your organization. This implies they won’t have the option to get the merchandise or administrations they need and you won’t get paid all things considered.

We energetically suggest that you restore SAM Registration in any event two months early to guarantee that your reestablishment is affirmed with a lot of extra time before that termination date. This is particularly significant during the current pandemic, as this has constrained the Federal Service Desk to adjust its activities. If you head to the Federal Service Desk site (FSD.gov), they additionally express that the enlistment and recharging endorsement measure as eased back down because of a flood of new SAM Registration.

The Federal Service Desk is the public authority organization responsible for dealing with the SAM information base just as a few other government frameworks, including beta.SAM.gov. This site is a useful asset for all administration temporary workers as it is essentially an internet searcher permitting contract based workers to look for accessible positions by office, by date, by NAICS codes and that’s just the beginning.

The most effective method to Renew SAM Registration

There are two different ways to re-establish your SAM Registration. You can go into your present posting and update it yourself or you can recruit an outsider enrollment administration to finish the recharging cycle for you. Reestablishment is free on the off chance that you do it without anyone else’s help, however it very well may be convoluted and tedious, countless individuals simply employ an organization, for example, Federal Contractor Registry to deal with this errand.
How to create more inclusive surveys
By: Percept Consulting
Tags: Consulting, Surveys, Marketing, Research, Market Research Reports

From respondent language to their experience, the best surveys are built to be inclusive. In a broad sense, this means surveying with empathy, respect, and explicit motives. You create an inclusive survey when you’re thinking about how you ask respondents about things like religious affiliation, sexual orientation, or gender identity or when you plan a respondent journey through your survey and consider why and when they might feel excluded. This simple act makes a big difference, and they help survey creators get in the habit of thinking inclusively.

There are some general principles you can keep in mind that will give you a baseline for creating inclusive surveys:

Be mindful of your demographic questions

Demographic questions focus on the identities of your respondents (such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, and income), and include them in your surveys can help you get a clearer understanding of your audience. But these questions, especially when they relate to diversity, equity, and inclusion, can feel personal. That doesn’t mean you should be afraid of asking them — but it does mean that you should be clear about why you’re asking and how you’ll use the data. Knowing this will help you create better questions that are driven by intention. Another way to make demographic questions feel inclusive is to include a fill-in-the-blank answer. When you’re asking about religious, racial, or gender identities, there’s always the risk that your respondents will fail to see themselves reflected in the answer options that you suggest. Including an option where they can write it in themselves will give them better opportunities to be “seen” and might even give you ideas for future surveys.

Don’t require answers to all your questions.

Rather than requiring all your survey questions, give respondents the power to skip questions that make them feel uncomfortable. This will not only respect their boundaries; it will also keep them engaged and decrease the chance of survey fatigue.

Use skip logic

Another useful survey setting is skipped logic, which allows you to send respondents to specific questions or pages based on how they answer a particular problem. In general, using skip logic makes your surveys stronger because it prevents respondents from seeing questions that don’t apply to them. The beauty of skip logic is that you can use it to tailor the survey experience for your respondents and develop a deeper understanding of their backgrounds and experiences.

Be conscious of language.

Words are powerful, and the terms and phrasing you use in your survey questions can inadvertently exclude, offend, or marginalize certain people. To avoid this, your survey questions need to reflect inclusive language.
OpenMic!
Tags: Consulting, Business Strategy, Tech, Business, Finance

Happy Friday! #OPENMIC is #LIVE ! Questions about #cloudcomputing ? Leave us a comment below and our team of experts will get back to you ASAP! ☁️ 🎄🎅🏼
How do we ensure quality on our projects?
By: Visual Nuts
Tags: Consulting, Visualnuts, Development, Software, Quality Assurance

Every team member is responsible for a part of the development and my job is to ensure quality. If I guarantee quality at every single task, I will ensure quality at development and project itself.

These are for me the most important steps in quality assurance and the ones I follow.

Analysing

When there are new tasks, I normally take time to look where each task will be involved in. These tasks could affect previous developments and I need to think of all possible scenarios to be able to discover edge cases. It’s like having a higher picture of the development.

Thinking

Looking at the previous analysis, it’s time to think about the scenarios. Scenarios are different from each other and all of them are important to guarantee the development quality.

Continue reading @ https://www.visualnuts.com/blog/quality-on-our-projects-vnbl-ece19d06-4954-455f-808e-256a122a1f94
The 12 Days of Freelance Marketing
By: Dan Bollin
Tags: Consulting, Freelancing, Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Branding

On the first day of freelance my colleague gave to me—a fun little challenge with glee

On the second day of freelance my colleague gave to me—2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the third day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the fourth day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the fifth day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 5 Zoom meetiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the sixth day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the seventh day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 7 late-night Slack pings,

6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the eighth day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 8 grainy assets,

7 late-night Slack pings,

6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the ninth day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 9 colored spreadsheets,

8 grainy assets,

7 late-night Slack pings,

6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the tenth day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 10 execs a stressing,

9 colored spreadsheets,

8 grainy assets,

7 late-night Slack pings,

6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the eleventh day of freelance my colleague gave to me — 11 “final” changes,

10 execs a stressing,

9 colored spreadsheets,

8 grainy assets,

7 late-night Slack pings,

6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee

On the twelfth freelance my colleague gave to me — 12 weeks ‘till payment,

11 “final” changes,

10 execs a stressing,

9 colored spreadsheets,

8 grainy assets,

7 late-night Slack pings,

6 more outputs,

5 Zoom meetiiiiiiiings!

4 wonky decks,

3 admin logins,

2 weeks in total,

and a fun little challenge with glee
Daryl Turner NJ
By: Daryl Turner
Tags: USA, Consulting, Business, Profit, Successful Entrepreneurs

Daryl Turner NJ is the best business consulting service provider. With his business consulting skills and technology solutions, he is always able to create an unmatched experience by helping those who crave their business goals.
Discovering the Art of… ummm…. Discovery
By: Paul Krisman
Tags: Consulting, Management Consulting, Discovery, Consultant, Business Consultant

It’s 9am, Monday, start of a new engagement with a client, first meeting, first two minutes…. make or break time. We’re in the business consultant sweet-spot … Discovery.

It’s time to get up to speed, quickly, really quickly – to understand the business, the people, the dynamics that work, those that don’t, what they see the “problem” as and what information can be gleaned.

For an executive consultant this is not a checklist exercise – your client will tell you their business is different to others, their challenges are different to others and their people are special (apart from those that aren’t!). And they might be a bit right or a lot right – however, they all want the same outcome, they want to be the same or better than the “gold standard”.

Discovery is the the start of a journey that will launch the Transformation Catapult to launch the business into new territory – as client-side executive advisors our minds are ticking-off the pre-requisites, determining the launch site, calculating the trajectory and the landing point in real-time.

Each step of the Discovery process leads to others, a lattice-work of information, tricky questions being answered, challenged and refined to clarify the objective, target and the path to achieve that. This Discovery exercise is an Art, it is executed by experts who can apply experience, intellect and common sense to simplify and articulate the challenges and can design the structure which will provide the foundations upon which the outcome will be built.

If you’ve got consultants pitching up on Monday morning with a Discovery checklist for you to fill in – cut and run – this is not Art – it’s Paint by Numbers at best.

Paul Krisman is the Managing Partner at Strategic IT – experienced consultants and client-side advisors and … ummm … Discovery Artists!
A Path Through Polarization
By: Amy Hoppock
Tags: Consulting, Organizational Health, Consultant, Polarization, Business

orgPhoto by Jonathan Klok on Unsplash

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December 2020

By Ray Rood (Senior Consultant The Genysys Group)

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Recently I was approached by an HR professional who was curious about how the vision work that we do in Genysys might address the polarization of relationships in the workplace. The environment of polarization continues to escalate in today’s world. His question reminded me of a comment of a participant in an envisioning workshop that I facilitated almost ten years ago. This workshop was for members of a historical society that was deeply divided over what to do with a very unique asset. They had been given a castle in the middle of the local community. A majority of the society members didn’t want to have anything to do with the castle.

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After the workshop one of the participants, who represented the majority of those who wanted nothing to do with the castle, came up to me and after thanking me for being willing to facilitate this workshop in such a contentious environment, made the following comment: “The common vision that we were able to develop today about the future of the castle has brought needed healing to our society.”​

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Upon reflection, I believe that the key to developing some healing and common ground was first to identify the common questions that all of the participants had about the future of the castle beyond the present reality. As they thought beyond five years, which is where we in Genysys begin, it was amazing the common ground in interests, hopes, and concerns that began to emerge. When the results of the visioning exercise around the questions of the long-term future of the castle began to be shared the participants began to see that they often had much more in common about the future than they ever thought possible. As one participant indicated, “Eighty percent of what we shared today is common and/or complementary, our problem was that we had, up to now, no forum or way to discover our common ground.”

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Here are two questions that might help in discovering common ground in an environment of polarized differences:

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What common questions do we, in any group of which we are a part (work, family, community, church, etc.), have about our future beyond five years? How does each participant answer these questions as they look to that year of focus beyond five years?

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The common and complementary responses to those answers can provide a bridge of hope for a common and positive future for those involved as it was for the historical society and its castle.
Best Business Services In USA
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EiE Business Services is a provider of Financial Services to small business organizations. We are a full service bookkeeping and Accounting service. We can conduct our business virtually at a significantly lower cost while also providing the financial advisors of the organization with complete financial statement preparation and analysis. We understand the focus of the business owner is on the daily operations of the organization. We want to provide you and your financial advisors with a set of financial statements. One component of our work that is frequently lacking is a thorough knowledge of non-income tax laws. We find a majority of organizations are missing numerous exemptions, exclusions, and deductions which is costing the organization thousands of dollars annually.

We find most financial advisors rely on the paperwork submitted by the owners of the organization. Unfortunately the owners do not have the time to understand all of the various taxes impacting their organization. Due to this lack of knowledge, numerous exemptions, exclusion, and deductions are missed costing the organization cash and profit. Our focus is the implementation of strategies to recover the lost money and place controls in to prevent future overpayments of these taxes.
Who is Yana Lynch?
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Tags: Consulting, Real Estate, Real Estate Consultant, Real Estate Investor, Real Estate Investments

My name is Yana Lynch, and I am a native of the Northern Europe country of Latvia, relocated to the United States in 2001. I’ve traveled from coast to coast and lived in different parts of the United States (California — Sacramento, and Florida — Boca Raton), but simply fell in love with the Grand Strand area. I was enamored by all of the attractions, shopping, and the fantastic Atlantic Ocean and marsh views that are simply everyday delights of living in the coastal regions of South Carolina and moved into the area in 2002.

I have obtained my real estate license in 2008 after working several years in the hospitality industry and have since advanced my education by graduating from Horry-Georgetown Technical College with General Business Degree (Cum Laude). I am a proud owner of Fidei Real Estate International LLC, and excited contributing my talents (assisting national and international clients buying, selling and investing in real estate) and knowledge to this dynamically successful real estate enterprise. On February 16, 2016 it was an honor to became an American Citizen.

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Things You Should Think About GSA Schedule Contract
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Tags: Consulting, Small Business, Gsa Schedule Contract, Contracts, Gsa Schedules

You’re amped up for government contracting, at any rate you’re not generally focused on adjusting a jumbled offer each time you need to work with an administrative office. You have supported activities over-focusing on a great deal of red tapes with each experience you attempt to follow, isn’t that so?

Considering everything, if you can work with the General Services Administration (GSA contracts), you have different alternatives. The GSA Schedule Contract is commonly worried about government land and foundation. Generally, this proposes assembling, coordinating, and keeping up government structures, yet the GSA is moreover answerable for the association’s property needs.

(In any case, in the occasion that you’re not being created or land, don’t allow that to turn you off GSA impermanent work. I’ll clarify later, yet with the GSA Schedule Contract you can work with any association office.)

In the occasion that you’ve enthused about a GSA Schedule Contract, you’ll need to consider their Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts. I’ll reveal to you more in one second, in any case for the present, you should comprehend that MAS contracts mean about $48 billion of government uses reliably. That is in an overabundance of 10% of every organization making sure about!

What’s a Multiple Award Schedule Contract?

Most importantly, you should comprehend that there are different names for MAS contracts. You can get a full outline here, regardless, a few of the more typical names you’ll hear are GSA Approved, GSA Schedule Contract, and Federal Acquisition plan. They’re very similar things.

The GSA site portrays the GSA government contracts as “an association-wide, unsure development, questionable aggregate (ID/IQ) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts.”

It’s association-wide considering the way that once you qualify, you’re set up to apply the agreement to work with any organization office. Allow me to emphasize that: the GSA Schedule Contract is given by the GSA, yet it very well may be utilized to get work with any organization office at all.

Questionable development, dubious entirety deduces the arrangement is open-wrapped up. The GSA gets the most recent five years (with the probability of revamping out to 20 years), and it enables you to work with any association affiliations. Right when you get the plan, your rates for government work are fixed. This induces it’s significantly less unpredictable to land government contracts once you have the GSA Schedule Contract.

Different Award Schedule construes it’s feasible for a specific relationship to have the arrangement. Around 19,000 firms are on the GSA government contracts (80% of which are private undertakings).
Cyber Attacks and the Interconnectivity of Systems
By: Evan Piekara
Tags: Consulting, Government, Cybersecurity, Business, Technology

A recent hack of renown cyber security firm FireEye may be linked to a “supply chain attack” across multiple government agencies. This “highly sophisticated attack” may have occurred through software updates through a network management system operated by SolarWinds. According to SolarWinds’ website, they work with more than 300,000 customers including Fortune 500s, the Executive Officer of the President, Department of Defense, U.S. Census Bureau and many other government agencies. Reports also suggest that emails may have been monitored at the Department of the Treasury.

As details still emerge about the extent of this breach and the potential damage caused by this attack, one thing is certain, the interconnectivity of systems, increased storage of data on these systems, and growing sophistication of cyber threats creates a number of cyber security risks across all organizations. Cyber threats can pose harm in a number of ways — ransom, reputational harm, loss of intellectual property, data security — all of which can hinder an organization’s resiliency and business operations. Many government agencies, nonprofits, and private sector companies alike are experiencing growing threats and are recognizing how vulnerable their systems are. A recent National Infrastructure Advisory Council report found that privately operated critical infrastructure remains vulnerable and are falling short of security standards. This report suggested the need for a watchdog entity where private sector and public sector partners share threat intelligence, develop mitigation strategies in real-time, and facilitate collaboration against cyber threats.

Technology has opened the door to great efficiency, data insights, and capabilities. With those capabilities come emerging threats as organizations need to consider where they, and members of their supply chain may be vulnerable, develop continuity of operations plans to build resilience in the face of cyber attacks, and consider their risk tolerance, mitigation steps, and approaches to securing their systems.

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ESG Development in Mexican Construction & Commercial Services Supplies
By: Marimar Torreblanca
Tags: Consulting, Real Estate, Esg Investing, Esg, Finance

September 3rd, 2020

This week, we are sharing our ESG Development Heatmap for 2 new sectors in Mexico: Construction and Commercial Services Supplies. As in the past, we only focused on (1) companies listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange (using the stock exchange sector classification actually) and (2) publicly disclosed materials.

Construction

Commercial Services Supplies

What can we read from these heatmaps?

Only 31% of the Construction companies an 0% of the Commercial Services Supplies companies have done a materiality assessment and published its results. The second generation of homebuilders (Cadú, Javer, Vinte) interestingly have all done a materiality assessment. No company in either group has publicly communicated KPIs for its material topics. Only 33% of the companies in these sectors have and ESG Committee or a dedicated team. One third of the companies in these sectors have mapped its ESG efforts to the UN’s SDGs. No company in these sectors has committed to support TCFD or the Science Based Targets efforts. Only one company (Vesta) has aligned to CDP. Only two companies in both groups have become participants of the UN Global Compact. As we have seen in other sectors too, corporate governance info is available across the board. More than half of the companies share their efforts in terms of social impact. More than two thirds of the companies share their environmental efforts. 40% of the companies have published integrated or sustainability reports, and almost all of these are done under the GRI methodology.

Overall, the Construction sector seems to be above average with disclosing environmental efforts (which may have to do with the regulatory requirements of their regular operations). Having said that, most companies in both sectors still have a long way to go to really formalize a robust ESG strategy. As we have suggested before, if you don’t use a materiality assessment to truly know where to focus on, your efforts may not be having an optimal impact.

I hope you found this interesting. As usual, if there is anything we can help you with, please reach out.

Best,

Marimar

Partner, Miranda ESG
Expert Software Engineer in the Making
By: Justin San Juan
Tags: Consulting, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Software Engineering, Web Development

I write about my experience and key insights in designing, developing, and implementing software for multiple industries.

I am an award-winning dual-degree graduate from HKUST (class of 2020) with:

(Top 1%) Academic Achievement Medal, First Class Honors

HKD 80,000/a HKSAR Government Scholarship

Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science

Bachelors of Business Administration in General Business Management

I have since made many projects and have found a whole lot of insights from working and from my own reading. See my other articles for more information!

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