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Best Business Books 2016: Marketing

Strategy+Business

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. This year's best business books on marketing tend to "think small." albeit in wildly different ways.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

However, for organisations to fully benefit from big data they will need to review their decision-making processes, and become more agile and responsive to new insights in order to realise the full value of big data ( EY, 2016 ). Coordinate with local levels to act on insights ( EY, 2016 ). 2016, July 4). Image: Pexels.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment. Companies in BCG’s ECS Technology Index have valuation multiples 1.5

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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

A study involving over 400 executives from 48 companies connected strategy and innovation performance directly with good leadership habits. According to a study by McKinsey & Company, it is projected that by 2030, the time spent during a workweek on information technology and programming tasks will increase the most.

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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. HarperBusiness. Mulinge, P.

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Bad Data Costs the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data. But here’s another number: $3.1

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