Dell wants to be a trusted advisor offering consulting services to help figure everything out and make it work.

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As a technology enabled business service, TriNet is a trusted advisor providing payroll, benefits and the outsourcing of the human resource function.

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Will you be a trusted advisor first and a professional analyst next?

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Hold yourself accountable by asking a mentor, business partner, or a trusted advisor to meet with you quarterly to discuss the progress on your personal goals and mission statement.

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And Hemmer believes that its role as a trusted advisor to companies puts it in a better position to integrate all the technology pieces needed to help them realize their business goals.

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This can extend from a trusted advisor that can help you draw up the original papers (choose a successful or serial entrepreneur) or help guide your companies progress (an expert in your industry, related fields or critical skills).

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Earlier this month I was invited to speak with a group of (very) large company CIOs by the estimable Jim Cash, a former HBS colleague, IT scholar, human Rolodex, and trusted advisor to a great many.

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