Logistics. Coffee. Family Business. Put all three together and you reach the end of the trail.
This was an important drama for HWMS. It marked the transition from a simple podcast with dramatic sketches to a full drama that was trying to probe deeper issues with all the tools of theatre.
One of our members had just completed some work in Germany and had been intrigued with the nature of small business in the country and the role of outside advisors. Hence we chose a well-recognized product, coffee, and a common mode of business, logistics, and asked how it could be dramatized.
Cast and Creatives
Music from Alibi Music.
Produced, Directed and Scored by David Alan Grier
Originally released in 2018 as "How Not to [Suck] At Consulting."
“Complicated”
You don’t talk. It’s “complicated.”
You don’t act. It’s “complicated.”
You don’t know what to do. It’s…
You can see the pattern.
Our consulting at BKL Coffee Logistics has been strained. This owner had this grad idea to start the job and then vanish to a retreat in the Swiss Alps. He wanted to keep out of the way, he said. He wanted to let things take their course.
He may have had a plan.
He may have been improvising.
He may have been frightened.
But today, a brave niece tries to get an honest conversation started. A niece who has a career that is only vaguely related to coffee.
Ninth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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It’s not the slides.
It’s not the words.
It’s not the clothes you wear.
This doesn’t determine your success. Or at least it doesn’t determine it very much.
The bigger issue: What do your clients know? And when did the learn it?
In the consulting trip to Hamburg, our team is about to deliver its report. Lots of ideas. Lots of implications for the future of the client, Bohne Kaffe Logistiks.
But the report has become public. Or at least parts of it.
And everyone thinks they know what is in it. More importantly, they think they know what is in it for them.
The measure of success? Can they communicate the real message.
Tenth episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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It never ends well.
It really can’t
There is an organization to renew.
There are new tasks, new demands, new technology to install, new procedures to develop.
So what do you get when a tech consulting job ends? You’re supposed to get a new company, but perhaps all you get is a trail of beans.
The concluding episode in a series on the ins and outs of tech consulting.
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