SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Article Credit: CB Insights. High deductible plans and new technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers, with higher expectations around service and experience. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift. Retail Clinics. In healthcare, that change has come more slowly.

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Healthcare Insurance Insurance Retail 53

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

We just love bringing you good reads, and today our spotlight turns to top consulting firms in one of our favorite cities in the U.S. Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. – Washington, DC.

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Tom Spencer

MARCH 16, 2014

PEST” is an acronym that stands for “Political, Economic, Social and Technological” – four important factors for a business to consider when scanning the macro environment. Insights gained from the analysis can then be used to develop a strategic plan of action. Background. Importance. PEST Analysis Explained.

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Analysis Intellectual Property Trends Ethics 114

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of Capgemini Consulting. Founded in Paris, and containing the spliced DNA of other major firms it acquired along the way (Ernst & Young Consulting being the most notable), Capgemini Consulting is a global player in today’s consulting industry. Random, right?

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Capgemini Interviews Consulting Accenture 192

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2018

While overall adoption of artificial intelligence remains low among businesses ( about 20% upon our last study), senior executives know that AI isn’t just hype. Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. Insight Center. trillion and $5.8 Adopting AI.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This constantly increasing rate of technological advancement and social change is speeding up the pace of business and life itself, leaving most of us feeling time-poor. This desire to decelerate is a major trend with implications for companies, organizations and society. How do these findings translate into business insights?

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Tourism Fashion Transportation Hotels 44

Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Executives should be thinking about four different types of competition to maintain relevance in a changing environment, which originate from our work on competitiveness , strategy , and strategic change. Here, executives must ask: “Does our offering meet and satisfy actual consumer needs ?” Microzoa/Getty Images.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

We have yet another interesting read for you today – in fact, we learned a lot as we took a closer look into the kind of work this company does and the areas of expertise they possess. Well, needless to say, a company where both founders are Ph.D. Well, needless to say, a company where both founders are Ph.D. Welcome back!

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Like Mercer, Oliver Wyman is a subsidiary of parent company Marsh & McLennan Companies, who also own Lippincott, NERA Economic Consulting, and other businesses. Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. KEY STATS FOR OLIVER WYMAN.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Our awesome intern Preeti is back to bring you her unbiased review of a very unique book: The Ultimate Question 2.0 – How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer Driven World , authored by Fred Reichheld (from Bain and Co.). Hello there! was published. Want to find out what the Ultimate Question is? WHY READ IT?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. This despite the fact that the company lost nearly two billion dollars in the past two years alone. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company.

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Automotive Transportation Productivity Retail 40

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Insightful Thinking. A 94-year-old HR consulting and global employee benefits company that helps clients better manage their ‘human resources’, Buck is an independent subsidiary of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., A Xerox Company. A Xerox Company. Real-world solutions. and the world). In 1912, George B.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Healthcare 100

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It’s a refrain I’ve been hearing for the past 18 months from clients all over the world: “We need more skilled people for our security team.” But the security industry is a fast-growing market, with IDC pegging it as becoming a $101 billion opportunity by 2020. Insight Center. Getting Cybersecurity Right.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Accounting firm Marwick, Mitchell & Company was founded in 1897 in New York City by James Marwick and Roger Mitchell. Eight years later Marwick, Mitchell & Company launched a banking practice, for the first time focusing its efforts on one industry in an effort that proved to be very successful. Billion last year.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. There were no tech companies back then, at least not as we currently define them. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. It’s not an industry in itself.

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Industry Company Intellectual Property Information Technology 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Their audience turns to them for industry insights, new product information, and recommendations. William Andrew/Getty Images. A New Type of Local Partner. Known as “Mr.

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B2B Education Media B2C 35

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

From our view and experience, what underpins the success of these new ideas and approaches is the abilities, skills, and mindset of the company’s workforce. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 45

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

billion industry by 2021, but its solutions are only as good as the data behind it. Otherwise, they’ll end up with what I call a “rat’s nest”: dirty, duplicate, or dead information that obscures useful insights for making smart decisions. Insight Center. Vincent Tsui for HBR. trillion bite out of the U.S.

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Sales Data Efficiency Retail 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

At home, we’re Marie Kondo–ing our way to minimalism, buying experiences rather than things, and using services — Netflix, Spotify, Uber — rather than owning assets such as movies, music, and cars. And equipment must be maintained in a world that is becoming virtual and augmented by technology (VR and AR).

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Company Intellectual Property Real Estate Industry 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry. For years, U.S.

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Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. But they will need to adopt the more hard-headed way that Silicon Valley companies evaluate acquisitions for their deals to pay off.

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Company Talent Accenture Transportation 28

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Insight Center. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Paying for a cup of coffee on an iPad is mainstream in big cities, but the majority of small businesses — the backbone of our local economies — have not yet fully come online. Insight Center. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Small Business Retail Real Estate Operations 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. It’s created new business and social networks, resulted in new ecosystems, and transformed our economy. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind.

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Company Operations Data Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Companies that claim to be “transforming” seem to be everywhere. In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Core r epositioning.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

We’ve reviewed locations, employee counts, industry focus, and reputation of multiple firms in and around the Boston area – and this article will help you make life-changing decisions. Considering Boston as potential choice among others, but are not entirely sure? Well, you’ve come to the right place.

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Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

government leaders, sustainability is getting more and more attention at American companies. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind.

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Metrics Government Energy Company 41

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. Within the next three years there will be over 20 billion connected devices (e.g. oil pipelines, smart cities, connected homes and businesses, etc.)

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Banking Data Analysis Retail 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our analysis found the health care system is so complex that more than half (52%) of consumers are unable to navigate it on their own, triggering avoidable customer service calls and more costly care. Our estimates found health insurers and employers spend $26 more on administration fees for every consumer with low health system literacy.

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System Insurance Insurance Education 35

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

However, this isn’t unusual for its heritage – founded in England, longevity is a common trait for many companies in the U.K. Below is a timeline of key milestones for both companies until they merged in 1998. PwC is an absolute behemoth – prestigious, mystical, and totally confusing to the outside observer.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both its U.S. The company does deep data mining through multiple sources to spot signature events in customers’ lives. banking and insurance businesses.

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Balance Sheet Insurance Insurance Data 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of L.E.K. An offshoot of Bain & Company, L.E.K. Chairman, the early days were so lean, they thought the company wasn’t going to make it. Industries. . L.E.K. CONSULTING INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Consulting. CONSULTING HISTORY . Operations.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Strategy& 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Activist investors who expect to raise returns by influencing strategic decisions are having a meaningful impact on many industries from consumer-packaged goods to aerospace and defense. And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up.

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Management Apparel Industry Company 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

companies probably assume that their employees have the knowledge and skills they need to carry out their jobs. One global technology company my team works with, for example, discovered that, on average, its sales employees didn’t understand or know about 22% of its product features, even though they believed they did.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. Insight Center. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. As consumers, we are very wasteful. billion by 2025.

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Company Apparel Retail Metrics 28

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Other companies that are making the transition to the digital era face similar challenges from digital natives. times faster in percentage terms.

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Company Software Productivity Engineering 35

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Our digital universe is vast and growing exponentially, expected to swell to 44 zettabytes of data by 2020. Companies have attempted to use this tremendous amount of data in ways that make our lives better. Insight Center. For reference, one zettabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 gigabytes.). The Automation Age.

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