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What Skills Do Firms Want in Aspiring Consultants?

Tom Spencer

Being a consultant is no easy feat, and almost every successful consultant is characterised by competent mastery of the following 5 key skills — problem solving, leadership, data and quantitative skills, teamwork, and communication.

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Starting A New Company? Do You Need Help? It Is Available

Business Consulting Agency

Operational Efficiency. Leadership/Talent. Public Relations/Advertising. Strategic Planning. Revenue Cycle Management. Supply Chain Management. Reporting/Analytics. Client Acquisition/Retention. Viability/Feasibility Analysis. Procurement. Cash Flow Management. Reputation Management. Risk Management. Increasing Revenue.

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Google vs. the EU Explains the Digital Economy

Harvard Business

Companies like Google operate simultaneously in multiple ecosystems, as do their competitors. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market. When different suppliers provide the required functionality for each layer, the leadership of the stack is divided. Apple), the industry stack is vertically integrated.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers. (In In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Advertise successes. They are shifts that need to be made at all levels of leadership.

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“We Had Gone Back 20 Years.” The Heads of Puerto Rico’s Largest Media Company on Life After Hurricane Maria

Harvard Business

María Luisa: Our businesses were able to operate immediately after Maria because we planned for redundancy — generators, diesel, tech infrastructure. We had no advertising because most of our advertisers were closed, their agencies without power. We didn’t know if we had enough diesel to operate.

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How Likely Is Your Industry to Be Disrupted? This 2×2 Matrix Will Tell You

Harvard Business

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. Consider the newspaper-publishing industry. Others are exploring subscription models.