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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. The newest robots, 3-D printing systems, and data-mining hardware and services were all there along with a host of people hyping Industry 4.0, ” Insight Center. ” Insight Center.

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Rely on your people.

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4 Ways to Pressure-Test Strategic Decisions, Inspired by the U.S. Military

Harvard Business

Every leader wants to avoid major strategic mistakes, but, in a complex world, it’s hard to anticipate all the forces that might impact your goal. It’s vital to find weaknesses in your strategies before you implement them — and developing a rigorous process to do so. military has practiced and refined over centuries.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

As we were looking through your responses, we realized you were answering as if you were in an interview – and that’s smart. With that in mind, we categorized your responses and selected some Honorable Mentions before we identified the winner. Here’s a hint for future contests – humor goes a long way with us!

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Business Spotlight: Stanford GBS grad launches Returnships

Management Consulted

Read on for some great insight as to her thought process on setting up her company (yes, we’re hooking you up, future entrepreneurs ), the challenges she has/is facing, and for some great advice for you fresh graduates! What are you up to now? It’s backed by Sequoia.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). But to thrive in that future, the auto industry will have to get over its obsession with unit sales. For years, U.S.

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