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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

He began his career in sales and sales management with a division of a Fortune 500 company in the aerospace and defense industry. 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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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Management consulting is an industry that offers assistance with this kind of high-level decision-making and problem-solving. Consultants also have extensive knowledge in particular industries or topics. There’s an article in Bloomberg Business Week that outlines how the strategy consulting industry began.

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Importantly, I’m not arguing we’ll stop using digital technology — after all, we still use heavy industry, we just no longer refer to ourselves as being in the Industrial Age.). First is the technology itself. Even now, information technologies make up only about 6% of GDP in advanced economies.

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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

The continuing growth in importance of information technology has paved the way for the rise of business ecosystems, where connection and collaboration make products more valuable as more people use them (see network externalities ).

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What Innovators Who Create New Markets Do Differently

Harvard Business

It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.