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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Revenue: $20B+ (2011). Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. Finance Risk. Marketing Sales & Service. Enjoy the ride!

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

People can be hired through the sharing economy; technology can be rented by the hour; finance can be sought for any prototype, and assets bought. We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. Case Study: Blue Apron.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

CEO Frans van Houten began an aggressive change process in 2011 to move power back to the regional business units. PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers. Country P&Ls would be replaced with simpler, sales-oriented measures.

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