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Best Business Books 2016: Marketing

Strategy+Business

This year's best business books on marketing tend to "think small." While information technology allows company to amass and analyze huge volumes of aggregate data on customer behavior, the authors of these books argue we need to understand and relate to consumers at the micro level. albeit in wildly different ways.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

This can significantly cut time in the market and improve quality. Creating new business models, products and services: Big data provides organisations with the opportunity to identify customer demand, spot trends in the market and develop the next generation of products and services ( Tras, 2015 ).

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. This points to the potential to create shareholder value by spinning off proprietary technologies into standalone companies.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Before the acquisition of Parthenon, consulting at EY was really synonymous to Advisory (not strategy).

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How Future-Proof Are Your Leadership Skills?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Disruptive innovation, increased global competition, and evolving market pressures are converging. A study involving over 400 executives from 48 companies connected strategy and innovation performance directly with good leadership habits. Robots and jobs: Evidence from US labor markets. Are your leadership skills future-proof?

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

It is projected by 2030 in the US and Europe that the time spent during a workweek will on information technology and programming tasks increase the most. While some skills will be less in demand it is important to consider the human leadership skills that remain in the technology-driven workplace. Journal of Political Economy.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Therefore the most important aim for digital companies is to achieve market leadership, create network effects , and command a “winner-take-all” profit structure.