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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Revenue: $20B+ (2011). Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. During this same year, IBM introduced Business Recovery Services as a formal business offering for customers, enabling them to continue operations in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster.

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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer. Apple kept 30% of the sales made by outside developers.

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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 a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries. PepsiCo is also a case study in the vertical health of the organization: getting to the right number of layers.

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Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants

Harvard Business

He has written a case study about food safety testing and is the author of All Business Is Local. However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety.

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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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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business

Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies. In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. digital giants in these countries. counterpart, Match.com.

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