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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

In 2017, Warton published an article that highlighted the rise of contractual workers in both the private and public sectors. In terms of flexibility and autonomy, consultants who operate as contractors can decide what services to offer, when and how to offer those services, and what prices to charge.

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Drones Help New Industries Take Flight

Tom Spencer

By 2030, PwC predicts that there will be around 76,000 drones in operation in the UK increasing the UK’s GDP by £42 billion and offering significant net cost savings to the tune of £16 billion. Fortune (2017). More importantly, PwC was able to calculate the value of the coal with 99% accuracy based on data captured by the drone.

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Blockchain: Bitcoin, Bored Apes, and Beyond

Tom Spencer

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. In 2017, Spotify acquired Mediachain so that it could provide this payment facility to its musicians and reduce the administrative task of dealing with payment claims.

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I'm Back

The Nonprofit Consultant

When I arrived, the Cafe had only been operating for about one year, and was only open three days each week, and serving four meals. million renovation of the Cafe itself, financed through CDBG funds, and all the delays, bureaucracy, endless meetings, and hard work that implies. Along the way we also did a $1.2

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France Fesses Up: "Deficit in 2014 Much Higher than Expected", Budget Needs Revisions Yet Again

MishTalk

France announced on Wednesday it was breaking the latest in a long line of promises to European Union partners to cut its public deficit, conceding it now would take until 2017 to bring its finances in line with EU rules. Compared to the first''s expectation Amending Finance Act passed in late July, 6.1

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business

Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. They’re financed with equity—in other words, a stake in the company. When you could finance growth with debt, large companies had enormous advantages if they could incentivize managers to embrace disruption (largely by creating new business units).

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments).