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Publish or perish. The axiom of tenured college professors must also be the mantra of all consultants. Yet, while getting published may be the end-all for the professor, it is just the beginning for the consultant. Leveraging your publications is the key to success. Without doing that, you too are merely going through an academic exercise.

Clichéd as it may sound; a management consultant is hired by a firm to ‘add value’. But what is value? How is it measured? And how can the consultant process and articulate such value to her client in simple, non-confounding terms?

Burdened by a slew of mixed platforms and out-of-date, fragmented technologies, the Portland Trail Blazers organization, an NBA franchise since 1970, needed a way to make their legacy systems support more collaboration while still being easy to maintain. So the Trail Blazers looked for an assist, and got it, from Seattle-based Slalom Consulting.

The enterprise social platforms market, which represents one of many components of corporate social media spending, was a mere $370 million in 2009, according to IDC; by 2014, this spending should surpass $2 billion.

As other large firms unveiled social media practices in recent months, KPMG chose not to do so. Instead the firm integrated social media insights and services into its existing offerings.

How easy is it to talk to someone and really think that your message got through? How do you know for sure? If they didn’t look at you quizzically, how do you know that they simply didn’t want to ask you to repeat, for fear of appearing unintelligent?