Kamyar Shah

Could AI Transform Your Business? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing and evolving field. In recent years, we’ve seen generative AI models such as ChatGPT and Midjourney develop f...

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SELECT S: Strategic thinking As an executive, you’re responsible for the strategic direction of your organization, which involves creating value for investors, employees, suppliers and other ke...

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Organizational development (OD) is crucial for successful and growing businesses. It involves implementing strategies and initiatives. A well-crafted organizational development process will enh...

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Are your business processes running at optimum efficiency? Discover the power of process consulting services and unlock your company’s full potential. Learn more about the benefits of business ...

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Are you looking to drive growth and success in your organization? Do you want to optimize various aspects of your business and stay ahead in a competitive landscape? If so, look no further than g...

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Process consulting services are the secret weapon successful companies keep in their back pocket in the high-stakes business world. These services are often an unspoken game-changer, adeptly tran...

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Understanding Business Process Management Are you looking to align your business’s processes with its overall strategy? Business process management is ultimately about delivering results and dr...

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Did you know that 37 percent of managers believe that their most important goal is to keep employees on track to meet goals? However, how do you set goals and manage your employees to ensure th...

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Although the buzzword OKRs have been around since the 90s, only around 29% of working US adults are familiar with the term. Interestingly though, of the workforce who are acquainted with the te...

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Team cohesion can make or break the workplace – 86% of employees and employers say that lack of collaboration and communication is the cause of workplace failures. Almost everyone, from compa...

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Working as part of a team is a vital skill specifically in the workplace. Optimum team cohesion can drive a business to achieve goals and generate maximum revenue. But what exactly is team cohesi...

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Every business owner or manager has key objectives and goals they want to achieve to drive the success of the business. The most efficient and cost-effective way to reach those goals is to make ...

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Whether you’re the owner of a well-established business looking to explore new avenues, or you’re just starting out, you would have heard about business consultants. But what do they actually...

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Change is the only constant in business – yet change initiatives are often cited to fail a staggering 70% of the time. Although business leaders frequently introduce change into their organiza...

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If there’s one thing certain about business, it’s uncertainty, and that’s a sentiment that millions of business owners will understand. In 2021, a record was struck when 1.4 million new bu...

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Over 627,000 new businesses open each year in the US alone. Many of these businesses expand into large organizations, some with thousands of team members and millions in revenue. How does a sma...

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45% of Chiefs of Staff in large companies with more than $2 billion in annual revenue were at a Vice President level or higher. A good Chief of Staff is a strategic advisor to the President or C...

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Most people don’t know that 85% of workers in the United States alone experience some kind of conflict in the workplace on a daily basis. If people work in an office or in any other work en...

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With so many job titles being used today, it’s hard to know who does what. Therefore, it makes sense to start by hiring a fractional chief operating officer (COO) who can help in this area fo...

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In the past, if you needed an executive, you would have to hire them as full-time workers and pay them high wages. A less costly solution is to hire what is known as a fractional executive since...

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The purpose of a business strategy is to set objectives and define the steps to achieve them within your firm. It is one of the most powerful tools you can use to accomplish your business goals. ...

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Fractional Chief Executive Officer Had you mentioned an outsourced, seasoned, or fractional chief executive officer (CEO) a few years ago, people would have been stumped. Today, these words not...

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Often, advice tells us to live in the moment. It keeps us from getting wrapped up in hypotheticals and denying the present reality. This method doesn’t mean renouncing control and letting life ...

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Influential leaders are efficient decision-makers. Your overall success as a company depends on your abilities to evaluate information and make rational conclusions. At times, you may find that t...

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Life is full of good and bad decisions. Thinking back to our youth, we can all come up with a few examples. As we mature, we learn that bad decisions are usually made because of factors like a la...

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Investing in your employees’ growth is more than providing raises and promotions. The goal is to find out what’s important to each person on your team and give them ways to develop in those a...

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The concept of project management is simple. Organize your efforts to see improved results. However, the execution of this idea often turns out to be more complex. If you’re struggling with you...

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Rarely do any business strategies involve staying the same instead of trying to grow. So what do you do when your profit and loss sheets indicate little or even negative change? Paying attention ...

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How important is a clear communication strategy? A study by Watson Wyatt showed that companies that used effective communication were more than 50% more likely to report below-average employee tu...

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Keeping track of projects is easy with a small team. Many startups do just fine with informal procedures and close communication. However, this setup only works until you start experiencing real ...

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How many times have you missed the perfect opportunity because you waited too long? Don’t miss out on the benefits of growth because of a lack of action. A good plan is only as strong as its im...

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How many businesses have failed by trying to stay the same? In reality, the only constant is change, and the harder you try to resist it, the more problems your face. Thankfully, a reliable strat...

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Where do you want your business to be five years from now? How about in ten years? If you haven’t thought this far, you’re not alone. In 2018, only 63% of businesses surveyed reported they ha...

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The Marketing Research Association reports that of all the developed products, only 40% make it to market. Even more shocking is that 40% of those that do make it don’t generate any revenue at ...

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Every year, over 30,000 products hit the market. However, according to Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, 95% of these products will fail. Beating the odds doesn’t depen...

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Every product started as an idea. The difference between products that outperform in their market and those that fail before taking off isn’t just luck. The best products rely on solid product ...

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The best process isn’t the perfect one. The best process is one that gets used. Once you learn how to avoid the mistakes that lead to impractical procedures, you can implement steps that build ...

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  Imagine that you’re training for a new role in another department. You have their SOPs, and you’re following them to the letter. The issue is that everyone else is not. What do you do when...

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For a moment, imagine that you have to show someone how every process in your company works within 24 hours. Can you do it? Those who said yes probably have one of two things: Incredible luck or ...

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  When a company begins to scale up, it may find itself faced with problems it just doesn’t know how to solve. When this happens, it may be time to consider bringing in a Chief Operating Offi...

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Have you ever had the perfect dinner at your favorite restaurant and the waiter brings you the dessert cart? The temptation is real as you stare at those decadent creations but you know you can�...

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There is every chance that at some point in your career you will need to take on advice on where to take your business. Maybe you will get this from a peer, a previous colleague, or it might be y...

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Are you wondering whether your business needs strategy consulting vs management consulting? While at face value they might seem the same, but there are key differences. In this in-depth guide, yo...

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Leading a business to success requires a good amount of knowledge about operations and day-to-day tasks. These are what keep your business afloat. But you will likely miss out on market opportuni...

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Some companies operated on a need-to-know basis. And certainly, in some situations and industries, this may be a necessary position to take with respect to sharing information within a company. H...

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At the core of a company’s success is the knowledge held by its employees. Providing a culture that nurtures increased employee growth through knowledge acquisition can prove to be one of the g...

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Research is often undervalued in a company as leaders rely on their own experiences, their knowledge set, and possibly the knowledge and experiences of others. Surprisingly this can prove to be a...

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The quick death of any young company is often the lack of focus on the right areas of their profit and loss (P&L) statement. Established companies can likely get away with a lack of focus and ove...

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Regardless of the age or size of your organization, it is likely you have one too many business processes that need to be improved. Identifying these areas of your business that need to be improv...

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Every company has numerous projects occurring at any given time. Core project management skills are necessary to ensure that projects are run efficiently and effectively. Project management has b...

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An emerging trend over the past 10-20 years (certainly in the information technology areas of a company) is to implement project management (PMO) office to help companies deliver on strategic pla...

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We live in a world overflowing with data. As a result company decisions no longer need to rely solely on the “gut” of the leaders, or opinions of the outspoken. The goal of this article is to...

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Customer Experience has grown beyond a customer’s satisfaction with your product or service. The best companies view Customer Experience as the end experience that a customer has with the compa...

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Whether you lead a team of a couple of people, a department with 25 people, a division with hundreds of employees, or an organization with thousands of individuals you are going to want to acquir...

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Laying The Foundation For Your New CMO So you have decided to hire an interim or part-time CMO. What are the next steps for your business and how will your new interim CMO fit in the picture? ...

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Starting With Your New Remote Chief Operating Officer So you have decided to hire an interim or part-time Chief Operations Officer. What are the next steps for your organization and how will you...

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Why Dedicated Operations Management Is Essential Operations management is an element of every business, whether it is one person or 100,000 people. However, not every organization, especially sma...

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All About Business Coaching and Why It Benefits You How long has your company been in operation? Did you recently open your doors, or have you been at it for years? Are you seeing the success you...

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A Guide to Marketing Management and What It Means for Your Business When it comes to a company’s market, it has a simple definition: A company’s market includes the buyers and sellers in a re...

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What To Expect From Your Management Consultant Most people in the business world have some sense of what a management consultant is. However, far fewer people know exactly what impact and outcome...

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Project management is a component of all work. Whether you are a small team casually collaborating or a large enterprise with a strong, formalized set of policies, project management is playing a...

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Keys To Finding Success in Small Business Running a small business is an attractive career path for many. However, there is no denying that it is challenging. Small business owners have to wear m...

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When and How To Hire an Interim COO In many organizations, the chief operating officer is one of the most important executives in the c suite. He or she serves as the head of the business’s ope...

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How To Hire an Interim CMO You work hard for your business. Naturally, you want it to thrive. It may be tempting to try to handle everything yourself so that you maintain control, but this can be...

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Episode 6 Kamyar Shah talks Operations The post Episode 6 Kamyar Shah talks Operations appeared first on Fractional COO - Fractional CMO - Kamyar Shah .

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Forbes Coaches Council member Kamyar Shah talks about growth and scale. The post Troncast – Forbes Coaches Council member Kamyar Shah talks about growth and scale. appeared first on Fraction...

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The chief operating officer is one of the key members of the C-suite in many organizations. In addition to overseeing the operations of the organization, he or she may also be the second-in-comma...

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Who could forget when IHOP changed its name to IHOb last summer, a move that had people talking and creating memes for weeks afterward? What about when SpaceX took the Tesla Roadster into space? ...

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Advance Your Growing Business With a Fractional Chief Operating Officer Running a growing business is an exciting and fulfilling experience. However, it is not without its challenges. One of the ...

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Fractional Chief Marketing Officers: Is Hiring One the Right Move for Your Company’s Bottom Line? What’s up next for your company? Are you launching a new product or merging with another busi...

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Does the title “management consultant” make you think of a vague, nondescript role? This could be true – management consulting opportunities and duties round out a vast area of the spectrum...

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For a business to be 100 percent effective, it’s leaders/executive team and employees must learn to adapt and change to ever-changing, mutable industries. From technologies to target audiences,...

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If you take a minute and look at some of the articles about business management, you couldn’t be blamed for concluding that business consultants and management consultants have earned themselve...

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People Problems Not long ago I was speaking to a good friend of mine about micro businesses and some of the inherent and common problems that are not acknowledged. Suffice to say that there are t...

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Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/customer-service-revisited-kamyar-shah Published on March 18, 2016 Customer is the king or so we have been told. But is it really true? It ...

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Originally published at :https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-shop-doesnt-have-shopkeeper-kamyar-shah Published on December 29, 2015 Can you imagine having a brick-and-mortar business and leaving ...

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