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Looking Beyond Short Term Financial Metrics (Nigel Lake, Part 2 of 10)

Tom Spencer

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? One of my colleagues at Pottinger held an iPhone in his hand in about 2003, which was four years before Apple had the iPhone, except that the iPhone said Nokia on the bottom of it. ” The Hon Mike Baird MP, Premier of NSW.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

Oliver Wyman’s strategy consulting practice has made waves specifically in the financial services sector , and beyond as well. At its start, Oliver Wyman capitalized on the deregulation of the financial services industry. Does Oliver Wyman really offer a “different kind of consulting”? Oliver Wyman was one of those.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. This helps the centers increase efficiency, maintain quality standards, track disease trends, and collect demographic information.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Management Consulted

and status of financial commitments – commitments like sales orders, purchase orders, payroll, inventory, shipping, and taxes. In 1999-2000, PwC decided to have MCS disengage with current audit clients and did not selling financial systems design and implementation services. Something had to be done, and quickly.

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The 3 Stages of a Country Embracing Renewable Energy

Harvard Business

Earlier this year, the European Union announced that its climate and renewable energy targets—a 20% cut in greenhouse gas emissions, 20% of EU energy from renewable sources, and a 20% improvement in energy efficiency—are actually on track to realization by the year 2020. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business

In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” But Carr believed that by his writing in 2003 “the opportunities for gaining IT-based advantages are already dwindling” and that “Best practices are now quickly built into software or otherwise replicated.”

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Sexual Harassment Is Rampant in Health Care. Here’s How to Stop It.

Harvard Business

While internal processes may provide efficiency, independent external investigations should be undertaken when there is any question about the objectivity of the internal inquiry. It asks, for example, how well senior management communicates its zero-tolerance stance and who should oversee investigations of harassment allegations.