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Best Business Books 2016: Marketing

Strategy+Business

While information technology allows company to amass and analyze huge volumes of aggregate data on customer behavior, the authors of these books argue we need to understand and relate to consumers at the micro level. This year's best business books on marketing tend to "think small." albeit in wildly different ways.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

However, for organisations to fully benefit from big data they will need to review their decision-making processes, and become more agile and responsive to new insights in order to realise the full value of big data ( EY, 2016 ). Coordinate with local levels to act on insights ( EY, 2016 ). 2016, July 4). Image: Pexels.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Companies in BCG’s ECS Technology Index have valuation multiples 1.5 These ECS tech companies also have higher multiples than those of the balanced portfolio of the S&P 500 information technology index. times greater than those of the ECS industry as a whole.

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The Pentagon’s “Force of the Future” Reinvents Hiring

BCG

Article Thursday, September 15, 2016. On June 9, 2016, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced the latest and culminating parts of his sweeping reforms to the Pentagon’s antiquated personnel system.

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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Most firms have an established relationship with a “core” group of schools that they turn to every year to recruit fresh graduates (“Here’s How to Break Into the Management Consulting Industry,” 2016 ). Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). A few dozen consultants working in technology for the financial service industry are based at the Broadway office.

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Limit Cyberattacks with a System-Wide Safe Mode

Harvard Business

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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