Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest business brokerage firm, have collaboratively completed a significant number of transactions involving the purchase & sale of privately held companies, including one already in 2017.

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Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 6, 2017

My lunch-buddy was making the point that this just wouldn’t happen in finance or marketing. Accountants eventually become Financial Comptrollers, then Finance Directors and so on. In the latest (2017) survey 59% of executives stated they were much more open to switching roles. But was he correct?

Engineering 45

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. You might think companies will get the greatest returns on AI in business functions that touch customers every day (like marketing, sales, and service) or by embedding it in the products they sell to customers (e.g.,

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 43

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In 2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) were also banned in China as a form of “public financing without approval”. sale of weapons) or confer a net economic benefit to society (e.g. Loss of privacy. Digital currency raises serious privacy concerns. avoiding excessive government regulation ).

Banking 88

Banking Government System Policies 88

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Less apparent to the outside world is how much banks are also investing in controls, especially in their compliance, risk, and finance divisions. Investment banks now spend an average of $300,000 per year on these functions per “front office” employee who works with clients, such as sales and trading personnel.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2017

According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S. For example, if you enjoy analysis but not sales, can you adjust your responsibilities in that direction? What if you’re stuck in a job or a career that you once loved, but your heart isn’t in it anymore? More people fit this profile than you’d think.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These could range from employee turnover, equipment malfunctions, or even seasonal variations in sales for businesses. “I was approached by a company to investigate why a very important project that should have taken one year actually took five years. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. The average participant in the first cohort has actually doubled its sales.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

Published articles are high-level sales tools. Retirement benefits thoughtleader Dan Cassidy makes it a practice to show up at every sales meeting with a briefcase filled with reprints of his many published articles. Sales of your book increase as a result. Publishing articles can lead actually WRITING to a book!

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Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals. ” Must read articles from Professional Services Marketing Today: 2017 High Growth Study – Research Summary.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Finance reported General Motors to close Australian plants by 2017 Auto giant General Motors said Wednesday it will close its Holden plants in Australia by 2017, prompting Toyota to review its operations as unions warned the car industry was finished.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2017

Albert DiBernardo, who is now the head of strategy and development for a major engineering firm, told his board three years ago that he’d be retiring at age 65, and in his performance review last year set a specific departure date: December 31, 2017. that your retirement and new career might entail. Do a skills analysis.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it. The result?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S.

Finance 41

Finance Financial Government Software 41

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Blue Apron formally stated their intention to become a public company in early June of 2017.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Given that we are expecting continued emerging market currency depreciation (and a gradual devaluation of the Chinese yuan as the Central Bank of China seeks to maintain China’s export competitiveness), this issue is going to be a significant problem for multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2017, and possibly beyond.

Marketing 28

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. Retail e-commerce sales worldwide are expected to hit $4 trillion by 2020 , about double of where it is now. Digital players wield outsize market power. Innovation and change.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. On July 1, 2017, all of those seventeen taxes were subsumed into one tax: the GST. A year later, after demonetization, the same system is processing 76 million transactions per month.

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Government Banking System Policies 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. YOY in 2017–2018.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda.

Marketing 32

Marketing Company Government Construction 32

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

For instance, California alone is responsible for nearly 50% of national Tesla Model S sales. Employment in liberal states tends to be dominated by low-energy-intensity industries, like tech and finance, while conservative states are more likely to rely on energy extraction or manufacturing.

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