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We're continuing our series of 10 BD slices, which we're sharing in celebration of our 10th birthday.

Although last Friday’s BD slice involved talk of robots, we feel humans are still best placed to source business intelligence on other firms (for now anyway).

This year is our 10th year as The BD Consultancy, so we are sharing 10 BD slices with you. These are focused on 10 themes relating the future of marketing and business development.

To celebrate our 10th birthday, instead of sending you a slice of birthday cake, we are posting 10 key 'BD slices' surrounding our research into the future of business development and marketing...

We're chuffed to announce that this year we are celebrating our 10th birthday. Thank you to everyone who has helped to support and guide us this far.

At The BD Consultancy we advise a broad cross-section of professional services organisations - from small niche practices to the largest international firms. This allows us to keep up to date with the current learning and development needs of fee earners regardless of age and experience.

Have you ever run out of time? No? Surely that’s a fib! Either that, or you’re super human… Nobody’s perfect, we are all guilty of misjudging timings. Whether it’s turning up to a coffee meeting 10 minutes late, overcooking dinner, or sending invitations out with only a few days to go before your event - getting the timings right can be a fine art.

What do millennial professionals really want?

I like to conduct an exercise with young solicitors and accountants when delivering productivity and efficiency training.

I begin by asking them how many hours they are contracted to work every week. The answer is usually in the region of thirty-seven, (but most tell me that they have opted out of the working time directive).

Does it matter if you’re ‘interesting’ when it comes to building professional relationships?

“An empty taxi drove up to 10 Downing Street,” joked Winston Churchill about the man who defeated him for prime minister in 1946, “and out of it stepped Clement Attlee.”