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Reading 93 For March 2011 Bay Area Consulting Business Level

The Bay Area Con­sult­ing Busi­ness Level Index (BA-CBL) came in at 93 for the month March 2011.  A read­ing below 100 sug­gests sub­dued busi­ness activ­ity for con­sul­tants and exec­u­tive level con­trac­tors in the Bay Area. The 93 read­ing reflects a con­tin­u­ing mod­estly weak busi­ness envi­ron­ment for con­sult­ing. Con­sul­tants — on aver­age — can still expect […]

Bay Area Consulting Business Level Index At 85

The Bay Area Con­sult­ing Busi­ness Level Index (BA-CBL) came in at 85 for the week end­ing April 3rd 2011. A read­ing below 100 sug­gests sub­dued busi­ness activ­ity for con­sul­tants and exec­u­tive level con­trac­tors in the Bay Area. As last weeks BA-CBL was 106, the cur­rent read­ing of 85 sug­gests a dete­ri­o­ra­tion in busi­ness activ­ity for […]

Introducing The Bay Area Consulting Business Level Index

Suno­gos recently started to track the state of busi­ness for con­sult­ing (man­age­ment con­sult­ing and inde­pen­dent con­tract­ing for exec­u­tive level con­sul­tants) based on a pro­pri­etary index. At the cur­rent state this index is at an exper­i­men­tal stage. The index also has some lim­i­ta­tions, espe­cially there is no adjust­ment for sea­son­al­ity or other fac­tors. Hav­ing said that, […]

Lean Means Sustainability – Step 3 – Analyze

In ear­lier posts I wrote about “Define” and “Mea­sure” as part of Six Sigma’s DMAIC cycle. Step 3 is “Ana­lyze”, the “A” in DMAIC. The intend of this step is to under­stand what causes the prob­lem defined in step 1 – “Define”. Let’s assume we char­ac­ter­ized our prob­lem that we spend too much energy in […]

London – Beijing In Two Days – By Train!

China is actively plan­ning a high speed rail con­nec­tion to Europe. This impres­sive infra-structure invest­ment would be financed by China’s huge trade sur­plus, while coun­tries con­nected by the new line would pay prefer­ably deliv­er­ing nat­ural resources to China’s hun­gry man­u­fac­tur­ing plants. As it is planned right now, the high speed rail line would link China, […]