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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. The firms on the 2014 list are: Nous Group. PIP identifies and delivers performance improvement to industrial, resources and services companies, using a specialist team and a hands-on approach.

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How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

Harvard Business

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies may one day enable a completely new type of organization by allowing us to securely transfer value and allocate resources through smart contracts.

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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

It is important to have a good understanding of what’s motivating the purchase of the target and whether the buyer has adequate financial resources. Can the buyer easily finance the acquisition? And in 2014, it decided to purchase Beats Electronics which had just launched a music streaming business. Apple Acquisition.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

With a global workforce of 160,000 people and global revenues of $24.82B for the 2014 financial year, it’s pretty obvious KPMG isn’t messing around when it comes to, well, anything. Capabilities: Finance. Human Resources. Consulting Mag’s “Top 25 in Consulting” for “Excellence in Leadership to Mike Nolan of KPMG (2014).

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Response to Ram Charan HBR Article – “It’s Time To Split HR Up”

Kates Kesler

Ram Charan’s provocative article ( It’s Time to Split HR, HBR, p 34, July-Aug 2014 ) voices a common frustration we hear both from business executives and frankly, HR leaders themselves. But, honestly, if we were having a similar conversation about the CFO and the finance function, it would be a very short one. or even HR!

Talent 50
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Health Economics Part III – Organ Donations

Tom Spencer

Referring back to the organ donation statistics, a large proportion of donated organs come from the recently deceased – over two thirds of kidney donations in 2014. For obvious reasons people are unlikely to donate organs while they are alive. Thus, more focus must be placed on increasing post-mortem organ donation.

Ethics 60
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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. In 2014, the company set a strategic goal to double revenue by 2020, which required disciplined focus on specific strategic growth trajectories. The analysis of this data provided resource visibility across their entire organization.

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