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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Tailoring products to individual needs: Big data allows an organisation to narrowly segment customers.

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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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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). The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business

The computational agility of cloud computing has been playing a role in manufacturing as well, fostering the creation of new “smart’” products. Pivothead is a firm with 25 employees producing wearable technologies to help the blind and visually impaired. firms since the 1980s. Specifically, we found three key results.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. These companies provide services to process industries (for which the primary production processes are continuous or relate to a batch of indistinguishable materials), such as chemicals and oil and gas. Companies in BCG’s ECS Technology Index have valuation multiples 1.5

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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. Most firms hire in batches and relying on a core group of schools enables a consistent flow of talent” ( “Here’s How to Break Into the Management Consulting Industry,” 2016 ).