Business Talent Group (BTG) is entering into an exclusive collaboration with Heidrick & Struggles to offer Heidrick clients seamless access to BTG’s top independent professionals—on demand—for cri...
When you’re looking to grow, a merger or acquisition deal can be an attractive proposition. But the unfortunate truth is that most mergers and acquisitions fail—anywhere between 70% and 90%, according...
If 2017 was the year when the gig economy took center stage, 2018 was the year when many organizations took a closer look—and found there’s more work to be done to understand this dynamic segmen...
Measuring performance is an essential part of management, but there are some right ways and wrong ways to think about metrics. When done right, metrics are essential inputs to decision-making, driving...
The independent workforce has significantly outpaced traditional employment growth over the last seven years, at 31% vs. 14%, respectively. This alone says a great deal about how the business landscap...
As organizations grow, new roles emerge, new processes evolve, and strategies become more complex. During this shift, it’s easy for gaps and inefficiencies to develop, and—especially when the business...
The first IPO in the United States took place more than 200 years ago. But the scope of today’s Investor Relations (IR) department is a more recent invention. Today’s IR department is led by an Invest...
By now, it’s clear that technology is a major driver for the growing gig economy, both as a tool and as a potential disruptor. At its most basic, technology has helped independent workers connect with...
At Business Talent Group (BTG), we’ve seen the rise of high-end independent talent power a new path to organizational agility and performance. We’ve also seen companies stumble while trying to make th...
These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a life science company that doesn’t strive for patient centricity—that doesn’t seek to incorporate patients’ views, needs, and priorities into the drug develo...
Disrupting long-stable industries can be invigorating, but for many of those industries’ incumbent organizations, it’s also a sudden wake-up call. Businesses that are bigger and better-established oft...
The majority of Agile use cases involve technology projects. After all, tech companies in the early 2000s—think Google, Apple, Shopify, Amazon, dot-com start-ups—were the first adopters of agile work ...
When you’re looking to grow, a merger or acquisition deal can be an attractive proposition. But the unfortunate truth is that most mergers and acquisitions fail—anywhere between 70% and 90%, according...
Business Talent Group’s on-demand consumer goods consultants combine deep industry experience with expertise in domains like pricing, sales ops, and customer insights. CPG consultants can help c...
From acquisitions to project management, agility is everything in tech. Yet, too often, a company’s ability to innovate is constrained by drawn-out hiring processes, competition for top talent, ...
By now, most procurement leaders have heard about the high-end gig economy—and how freelance knowledge workers can help them steer complex, strategic initiatives on a project basis. The companies that...
The financial services sector is undergoing rapid transformation. Yet only about 7% of financial-services CEOs in the U.S. and Europe say their firms are very prepared to make the innovations they nee...
The gig economy isn’t just for ridesharing platforms. Now, many of the world’s best business minds are working independently and steering complex, strategic initiatives on a project basis. In fact, in...
Digital disruption has opened up a lot of opportunities in life sciences, from direct sales to data analysis. But what’s the best way to capture them? Business Talent Group’s on-demand dig...
Having robust, nimble market access strategies is increasingly important in life sciences. It’s also increasingly challenging, with fast-changing markets, increased patient engagement, and globa...
Post-merger integration is risky even for the well-prepared. Today’s deals are more complex than ever, and their value is always threatened by turnover, missed targets, and misaligned priorities...
Business Talent Group’s independent consultants can help at all stages of the M&A lifecycle, but one place where they excel is at the start of a deal—or before, as executives seek to validat...
What’s the best way to connect with your customers? It’s a question that comes up with clients across every industry BTG serves, many of whom struggle to maximize marketing spend in the fa...
January is a great time to start a new venture — to launch a new product, for instance, or enter a new market or geography. Several Business Talent Group clients got in touch this month for help...
Measuring performance is an essential part of management, but there are some right ways and wrong ways to think about metrics. When done right, metrics are essential inputs to decision-making, driving...
The first IPO in the United States took place more than 200 years ago. But the scope of today’s Investor Relations (IR) department is a more recent invention. Today’s IR department is led by an Invest...
These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a life science company that doesn’t strive for patient centricity—that doesn’t seek to incorporate patients’ views, needs, and priorities into the drug develo...
The majority of Agile use cases involve technology projects. After all, tech companies in the early 2000s—think Google, Apple, Shopify, Amazon, dot-com start-ups—were the first adopters of agile work ...
The insurance industry has been plagued by slow growth for years—particularly in mature markets like the US and Europe—and has lagged behind the overall economy for a decade. Fortunately, advances in ...
Every fall, we see our clients wonder what they can and can’t get done before the end of the year. We point them to this post by strategic planning expert Richard Kaung, which offers a smart, ti...
Prescription drug affordability is a major concern in health and life science—and not just in the U.S. Mounting drug costs have put huge strains on global health systems and have contributed to a cris...
Abhijoy Gandhi is a senior strategy consultant and executive who helps clients in the financial and business services industries adopt and leverage the latest FinTech tools, drive ROI through financia...
The lines are blurring between U.S. healthcare payers and providers. What does this payer/provider consolidation mean for pharma? Nothing less than a total shift in the way it does business. If the CV...
Today’s B2C products live and die by customer ratings. If we are looking for Italian restaurants in a new city, we read the reviews. When we order a new set of sheets on Amazon, we filter by 4+ stars....
Not long ago, the EVP of a multinational client called us in to say that his company had recently been through an expensive strategic planning exercise with a major consulting firm. The firm left them...
It’s no secret that today’s consumers are demanding. Spoiled by near infinite choice, expecting to be able to purchase anything at any time, from any device or location—and at the lo...
Business Talent Group (BTG) is entering into an exclusive collaboration with Heidrick & Struggles to offer Heidrick clients seamless access to BTG’s top independent professionals—on demand—for cri...
When you’re looking to grow, a merger or acquisition deal can be an attractive proposition. But the unfortunate truth is that most mergers and acquisitions fail—anywhere between 70% and 90%, according...
If 2017 was the year when the gig economy took center stage, 2018 was the year when many organizations took a closer look—and found there’s more work to be done to understand this dynamic segmen...
The independent workforce has significantly outpaced traditional employment growth over the last seven years, at 31% vs. 14%, respectively. This alone says a great deal about how the business landscap...
As organizations grow, new roles emerge, new processes evolve, and strategies become more complex. During this shift, it’s easy for gaps and inefficiencies to develop, and—especially when the business...
By now, it’s clear that technology is a major driver for the growing gig economy, both as a tool and as a potential disruptor. At its most basic, technology has helped independent workers connect with...
At Business Talent Group (BTG), we’ve seen the rise of high-end independent talent power a new path to organizational agility and performance. We’ve also seen companies stumble while trying to make th...
Disrupting long-stable industries can be invigorating, but for many of those industries’ incumbent organizations, it’s also a sudden wake-up call. Businesses that are bigger and better-established oft...
When big companies want to move quickly, they need to re-examine internal practices, not just look at the market. It’s an argument we’ve been making for years—one we’re pleased to see gaining traction...
When most people think of the “gig economy,” the gigs that immediately come to mind are often the ones we associate with our everyday lives—the ones that are within a few taps’ reach. Need groceries? ...
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) Global Power 150 celebrates women who influence a rapidly evolving world of work. Business Talent Group is proud to announce that our CEO, Jody Greenstone Miller, ...
At Business Talent Group (BTG), we’ve seen the rise of high-end independent talent power a new path to organizational agility and performance. We’ve also seen companies stumble while trying to make th...
Business Talent Group (BTG) is entering into an exclusive collaboration with Heidrick & Struggles to offer Heidrick clients seamless access to BTG’s top independent professionals—on demand—for cri...
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) Global Power 150 celebrates women who influence a rapidly evolving world of work. Business Talent Group is proud to announce that our CEO, Jody Greenstone Miller, ...
The SAP Fieldglass Digital Network is a global ecosystem of providers that help companies transform how they engage and manage the external workforce. Business Talent Group is proud to join other inno...
The promise of the gig economy just got a little closer—and a lot easier for the world’s top companies to tap. Business Talent Group (BTG) is pleased to announce a minority investment from global work...
It’s common to see companies ranked for how they perform in various subset areas of the company. Best place to work, coolest office, highest revenue generated, etc. But what about the overall pe...
Digital health and life science seem like a match made in heaven, promising not just to increase patient adherence but boost engagement, improve outcomes, and add billions of dollars in incremental re...
In January, NPR took a look at the rise of freelance work. Inspired by a Marist Poll about the American labor force, the series tackled everything from topline trends to the experiences of individual ...
Over the past few years, it’s become clear that traditional workforce models—expensive consulting firms and full-time hires on the one hand, and less skilled contingent workers on the other—aren’t eno...
Demand for freelance consultants and independent business talent has skyrocketed in the past ten years. That’s great news for companies, which are leveraging this new resource to increase agilit...
Our board observer, Rami Reyes, has a remarkable history in both his professional and personal domains. Reyes is a co-founder of NextEquity Partners—a California based venture capital firm that ...
Work is changing, and both companies and workers are struggling to keep up. At the high end, the gig economy has changed how companies connect and engage with elite knowledge workers. Other workers fe...
For the third consecutive year, Business Talent Group (BTG) has been named to Inc. Magazine’s prestigious list of the 5000 fastest growing private companies. The market for high-end independent ...
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