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Your Complete Guide to Subcontracting as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Having consistent cash flow is one of the hardest parts about being self-employed, especially when youre just starting your business. To improve cash flow, I recommend subcontracting as a way to generate income while you continue to build your own business. It can be difficult for veterans, too! What makes you stand out?

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

However, three major players in the shipbuilding industry — Hyundai Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Samsung Heavy Industries — are expecting stable growth over the next couple of years, according to Sea News. Due to poor project performance, $99 million is wasted for every $1 billion invested.

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The Food Industry Learns the Value of Small Batch Thinking

Markovitz Consulting

The disruption caused by COVID-19 has forced businesses to adopt new ways of operating. That places a huge cash burden on the distributors and suppliers. The cash flow model is incredible,” said Adrian Hoffman, an owner of Four Star Seafood in San Francisco. This has proved to be a boon for some companies.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

At the industry level they include (a) the extent of AI diffusion in economies; (b) the build-up of corporate profit; and (c) labor market dynamics. It took more than 30 years for electricity to diffuse and enable industrial plant design that could generate significant productivity growth. A faster pace of adoption.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The news is all good for customers, but it makes planning for the industry players much more difficult.

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. I believe a far-better path is to restructure the operations in question way before they threaten the company’s survival.

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The Top 13 Metrics that CEOs Should Measure for Strategic Success

LSA Global

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Cash Flow Cash flow management is crucial for meeting day-to-day operational needs and setting the company up to invest in growth.

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