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A New Quest for Consultancy: Transitioning from Just-in-Time Logistics

Tom Spencer

Economic meltdowns hold important lessons for business consultants. For instance, in the lead up to the 2008 Great Recession, McKinsey actively promoted mortgage securitization , alongside EY which was involved with Lehman Brothers’ accounting fraud allegations [pdf]. Logistics has always been a key area of focus for consulting firms.

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Going into Consulting in a World Changed by COVID-19

Tom Spencer

That being said, I think there are three issues to consider for anyone planning on going into consulting. Consulting projects will probably change. If we learned anything from the 2008 financial crisis, it is fair to say that in lean times private sector organizations have less resources available to invest in consulting.

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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed

MishTalk

Here is a list of FOMC Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008 Notes I purposely cherry picked statements of various Fed governors. Amazingly, Bernanke spoke of pent-up demand for housing in January of 2008 The January 29-30 transcript was a whopping 194 pages long. percentage point to GDP growth in 2008 and 0.3

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IMS Consulting Group (IMS Health) Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

With so many diverse arms of the company, today we will be focusing on IMS Consulting Group, a branch of the massive IMS Health organization. KEY STATS FOR IMS CONSULTING GROUP . IMS Consulting Group Website: [link]. IMS Consulting Group Headquarters: New York. IMS Consulting Group Employees: 475 people.

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A Fuller Picture of Special Services: A Critique of the Big Four

Tom Spencer

A more significant underlying issue, which we learned about the hard way during the 2008 Great Recession with regards to credit rating agencies, is that we cannot reasonably expect auditors to disclose truly problematic discrepancies in bookkeeping against their own paying clientele. Conflicts of interest. Final thoughts. Image: Pexels.

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Globalisation + China = Good news for the consulting industry

The Source

As for nuclear warfare, the professor argued that world economies are now far too interconnected for any one country to have anything to gain by blowing anyone else up—in fact they have everything to lose by doing so—and that’s thanks to globalisation.

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Consultant Ninja: Future Histories: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Posted by Consultant Ninja. Labels: Analysis , Consulting. I am a strategy consultant at. Consulting. (88). Management Consulting.