Word: upping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The client is a manufacturer of the old school, started over 90 years ago by a lone, hard-working visionary selling products he designed himself. The son of the founder--feisty at 83--still runs the company and eats in the cafeteria with everybody else. The client enjoys a very...
Wang leads me through the cubicles into a conference room. It's called "the team room"--the hub of any consulting project. It is sparsely furnished with chairs and folding tables, an easel with newsprint and a wipeboard on one wall. The tables are covered with piles of paper, technical...
The afternoon picks up for Wang when she and Mike hold a meeting with their main "contact" in the client's product engineering department. This meeting gives me a view of the working relationship between client and consultant that I haven't had all day. Even though some important issues...
Wang announces that she is ready to get going. We pack up in about three minutes and are on our way to the airport. She has apparently had a number of travel mishaps during her short time as a business analyst, one of which left her no option but the...
Still running on consultant time, Wang arrives at her gate five minutes before boarding begins. She picks up a magazine for the flight and joins the pack of weary business travelers. Tomorrow, she'll be back in PRTM's office in Waltham, working on non-client business and tidying loose...