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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

In 2008, the firm celebrated their silver anniversary of 25 years of extraordinary growth. Below are the rankings by Vault for ZS Associates in 2015: #5 Health Care Consulting. #16 Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Today’s Digital Landscape.