Recalibrate Your Strategy in China with This Framework
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
This 2×2 will help your company navigate Beijing’s priorities and political sensitivities.
Transforming Information Technology at a Large State Agency
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 15, 2020
The office of information technology that serves agencies across a state government system set a goal of becoming a high-performing and customer-centric service provider. The post Transforming Information Technology at a Large State Agency appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. CASE STUDY.
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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia
Tom Spencer
MAY 31, 2012
Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia 2012. THE list of strategy and general business consulting firms is part of the full list of consulting firms in Australia : Tier One – Global. Pacific Strategy Partners. Pacific Strategy Partners. Definitions. Helpful Links. in Management Consulting.
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4 Cybersecurity Strategies for Small and Midsize Businesses
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
You can’t stop cyberattacks from happening. But you can contain the consequences.
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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong
Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong. OC&C Strategy Consultants. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Definitions. Helpful Links. in Management Consulting. IMS Health.
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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.
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Review of “Open Leadership” Framework (Leadership and Social Technologies Book)
Steve Shu Consulting
MAY 10, 2010
While the figure doesn’t capture every element of the book, I think the figure focuses on the key areas a company must address when designing and implementing social technology-based strategy. Here I see the models as inspirational and thought-provoking as opposed to being ready off-the-shelf.
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150 Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy
Harvard Business
APRIL 18, 2016
In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine.
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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy
Organizational Talent Consulting
OCTOBER 2, 2023
To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development. Development.
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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change
Consulting Matters
OCTOBER 5, 2023
As the conversation unfolds, we discuss practical strategies for navigating these liminal spaces during significant life changes. a full-service engineering and information technology staffing company, helping to grow the business to eight figures in sales and over 200 employees, he successfully exited the business in January 2010.
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Is Consulting More Than Giving Advice?
Tom Spencer
JULY 4, 2020
Every year strategy consulting firms and agencies that specialise in executive business management and the “maximising shareholder value” approach receive billions of dollars for their services (Management Consulting, 2020). Reading Time: 3 minutes. Are consulting firms about more than just advising management? Image: Pexels. References.
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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze
Management Consulted
OCTOBER 18, 2013
In 1991, IBM approved a new world-wide services strategy to make IBM a world class services company by 1994. These services focused on business management and information technology. There are 6 specialty areas of Business Consulting: Business Strategy. Information Technology. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,
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What is consulting?
Tom Spencer
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
Management Consultants: Management consultants, in practice also known as business consultants or organizational advisors, are consultants who focus on all sorts of organizational concerns from strategy to a variety of elements within management. There are three main types of business consultants.
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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights
Management Consulted
AUGUST 28, 2013
The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. The focus of this article is on Booz & Company because of its focus on strategy. Information Technology.
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181 Management Consulting Salary Guide for 2019
CaseInterview.com
MARCH 5, 2019
So, consultants not only pursue a well-defined problem-solving strategy, but they also segment the consulting industry into several specific areas. Strategy Consulting. Strategy consultants provide advice regarding how businesses can adapt their general strategy towards growth. Information Technology Consulting.
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81 Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story
Management Consulted
AUGUST 1, 2013
Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. Now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, Oliver Wyman is known to give MMC its strong reputation as experts over other insurance providers because of the firm’s focus on strategy. Public Policy.
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Q&A with Patrick Jones
Brimstone Consulting
JUNE 23, 2021
My experience includes investment banking, commercial banking, and information technology where I have held senior positions in each. At Brimstone my focus has been working with leaders on senior team alignment, strategy, and strategy to execution projects. . What are your areas of expertise? .
Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?
Harvard Business
AUGUST 18, 2016
They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.
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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 3, 2020
Flat screen devices that render two-dimensional data for use in a three-dimensional world can be used to increase a user’s access to information and analytics. Augmented Reality and Strategy. According to the Harvard Business Review , investment spending on AR technology looks set to reach $60 billion in 2020.
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Management Consulting
CaseInterview.com
MAY 26, 2023
They may mix separate issues or expect that their previous strategies will work in a new market. Your role as a management consultant will be to filter information from the client so you can identify the specific challenges being faced. Let’s use the example of a business that’s seeking to relocate.
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105 Finance and HR: The Executive Partnership That Transformed a Company
Strategy+Business
JULY 23, 2017
Between them, they control the major sources of capital available to a company: human, financial, and often information technology. The relationship between a chief financial officer (CFO) and chief human resources officer (CHRO) can turn a company around.
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When Expanding into a Foreign Market, Your Outsider Status Is a Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business
MAY 31, 2024
Entering a foreign market comes with inherent challenges. Many global companies tend to overcome those challenges by minimizing their foreignness and assimilating into the local environments. However, maintaining and embracing foreignness can yield unforeseen advantages.
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Types of Consulting
Tom Spencer
MARCH 13, 2016
Here are five (5) of the main types of consulting that might interest you: Strategy: Think BCG , McKinsey and Bain (although it is worth noting that these firms are doing less and less “pure” strategy work and more operations, implementation and restructuring).
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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting
Tom Spencer
APRIL 6, 2019
Digital disruption has become essential to the survival of consulting firms due to its cross-functional impact, proving indispensable to strategy, operations, HR and IT consultants ( Consultancy UK, 2018 ). Conducting research for the School of Information Systems, she is invested in obtaining a career that advances information technologies.
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The Current State of Thin-Client Architecture
Kraft Kennedy
MAY 2, 2024
” This question was recently posed in the member forum of the Information Technology Legal Association (ILTA) Public Open Forum. We’re publishing insights from Kraft Kennedy’s Chief Technology Officer, Chris Owens, on this topic. Connect with our thin-client experts. Connect with our thin-client experts.
Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Harvard Business
MARCH 13, 2017
” Associate Justice Stewart probably didn’t know how new data technologies would soon begin to blur those boundaries. Ask for guidance from your information governance (IG) committee. Supreme Court, once said , “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is right to do.”
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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 19, 2016
This frees up the lawyers to work directly with clients to understand their specific needs and design and execute the overall legal strategy. One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors.
Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Promise Zones Initiative , which awarded over $30 million last year to grantees to achieve objectives such as developing a complete continuum of cradle-to-career strategies and breaking down silos between community agencies. Health information and other technology.
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A Strategist's Guide to the Digital Grocery
Strategy+Business
JULY 9, 2017
One solution is a new twist on "plying their wares": using sophisticated information technology to manage pricing and marketing, and promoting products in line with in-depth customer insights in a way that helps to shape demand. But that does not fully meet the challenge.
Companies Are Turning Drones into a Competitive Advantage
Harvard Business
JUNE 29, 2016
No strategy is static. The multiplying possibilities of drone-based data could inspire across-the-board alterations in data gathering strategies, particularly if such changes lead to cost savings, improved safety, and enhanced analytics. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture.
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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Operating expenses Operating or non-interest expenses will be affected by many moving parts such as wages, benefits, infrastructure, and information technology. Jason Oh is a Senior Associate at Strategy& with a focus on financial services. Image 2: Illustrative example of a bank’s non-interest income 3.
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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?
Management Consulted
JANUARY 20, 2014
BearingPoint partners with the major technological suppliers, like Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, to develop solutions and strategies suiting their clients’ requirements. Information Technology. Strategy & Business Executive. Practice Areas. Enterprise Applications. Human Resources.
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Who Killed the GE Model?
Harvard Business
JULY 5, 2018
The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new.
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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Data analysts often work closely with key business functions including marketing , product development, information technology, finance, and management to identify consumer trends, anticipate issues, and present evidence-based solutions to support strategic decision-making. Required Skills.
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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! A key question that must be addressed by a larger system is how many facilities that could not have survived on their own can it manage without damaging its financial position?
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Job Hub: Intuit Jobs and Culture
Management Consulted
MARCH 19, 2017
Intuit is a financial software and information technology company that has spent an impressive 13 years on Fortune’s list of the Best Companies To Work For by pledging to “Simplify the Business of Life!” We offer a bi-monthly newsletter (by application only) for high level strategy jobs at top firms around the world.
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Tackling the Case Interview
Tom Spencer
APRIL 13, 2019
Cases may be given verbally or in writing, but applicants will need to have the ability to communicate their strategies and assumptions clearly. Interpretations of pictorial information: This could include analysing certain graphs or charts. Practice, practice, and practice. Image: Pexels. Reference List. Retrieved from [link].
The Consulting Value Proposition
Tom Spencer
DECEMBER 2, 2017
Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds.
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68 French Hypocrisy at Its Finest: France Broadens Its Surveillance Power; "Susie Did It Too!"
MishTalk
DECEMBER 14, 2013
The National Commission for Information Technology and Freedoms, a state administration meant to protect the rights and privacy of citizens, said it was not consulted on the contentious elements of the bill, though it was asked to review other provisions. No one said anything about it to us.”
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69 A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture
Management Consulted
JANUARY 18, 2015
Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Kearney’s innovation practice: collaborative innovation, innovation portfolio management, innovation strategy and R&D performance strategy.
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100 Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue
MishTalk
JANUARY 21, 2014
The chances are that the global economy, weighted by nominal GDP at current exchange rates, will grow at 2 percent Globalization, turbo-powered by information technology, has cut short the feedback loop between demand stimulus and supply response. Emerging economies will likely remain in low gear.
Abt Associates Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
JULY 12, 2015
One of the board’s main directives is to map out and implement the company’s five year strategy. Information Technology Applications. If you are looking at moving to MBB and other pure strategy firms, Abt is not the place for you, noble though they may be. After the Board come the Officers. Practice Areas. Industries .
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The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Them
Harvard Business
JUNE 7, 2017
One strategy is to substitute memories quickly. As we get older, we get less good at deliberate forgetting —paradoxically, troublesome memories linger longer (in part because we have a general worry about our memories fading so we automatically strain to remember.)
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Booz Allen Hamilton Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
MARCH 28, 2016
After the provision against competition expired, Booz Allen Hamilton has diversified its client base, moving into technology integration and cybersecurity programs. As for Booz & Company, it was purchased by PricewaterhouseCoopers and became Strategy& , a firm we covered in an earlier Firm Profile. Information Technology.
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