Beaton Consulting
Beaton Consulting helps professional service organisations succeed by providing insight, advice and guidance.
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What's new?
- Dr Rebecca Sheils joins the Beaton Consulting team as Research Director - Commercial.
» Read more - Beaton Consulting is currently undertaking a major online study to assess the impact of the global recession on professional services over the six months since the last research wave.
» Contact Rebecca Sheils for more information. - Beaton Consulting and St James Ethics Centre launch a new study on business ethics.
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» Download full report - 2009 Annual Business and Professions Study Report to Respondents now available.
» Download report - Beaton Consulting is again presenting First Movers in 2009. First Movers is a series of breakfast seminars exploring emerging issues in professional service firms.
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- Beaton Consulting is again presenting Learning to Lead in 2009. Learning to Lead is an intensive, 3-day course that presents contemporary thinking on leading and managing professional service firms.
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In the press
- 'I think it's going to be the leanest season we've seen in most people's lifetimes for equity partnership.'
George Beaton, in The Australian, Friday April 24 2009 - 'Productivity remains a real issue and in fact it increases in importance as an issue when times are tough because morale is already starting to drop, people are concerned about their jobs and the uncertain future [so productivity falls].'
Maia Gould, in Business Review Weekly, April 30-3 June 2009 - ‘The ratings show that during this boom in insolvency services, the specialist recovery firms have been able to justify any increased fees.’
Mel Chee on Beaton Consulting’s Beacon research into insolvency services, in Business Review Weekly, March 26-April 29 2009 - ‘For the founder of Beaton Consulting, George Beaton, there is a complex matrix that underlies how firms and professions perform in terms of service.’
Business Review Weekly, March 12-18 2009 - ‘One way of calculating where you should concentrate your resources to get the biggest “bang for your buck” is through analysing your firm’s brand funnel.’
Joel Barolsky gives advice to marketing professionals in weathering the storm of the economic crisis, in PSF Journal, Issue 2, March 2009 - ‘The multi-city firms are working very hard to communicate their value and they are not discounting, yet… In fact, their fees are perceived to be going up.’
George Beaton on the results of the Legal Beacon survey, in The Australian Financial Review, Friday 27 February 2009 - ‘More progressive firms treat times like these as an opportunity – to increase market share, to gain a competitive advantage in the ‘new world order’, to overtake established players.’
Joel Barolsky gives advice to law firms in tough economic times, in Business Review Weekly, January 15-21 2009
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