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Is your small business making enough profit?

Asamby Consulting

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. Want to increase your profitability?

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Though not as aggressive, creative or flamboyant as MBB or perhaps even its Big 4 competitors, KPMG is a huge force in the consulting market and not one to be taken lightly. Butler, the new CEO of the US arm, indicated he would strengthen its consultancy services, a market he saw as filled with potential, and offer new services.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI

Harvard Business

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business

They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production. In other words, business leaders have been dealing with the direct, market-based risks presented by major economic, technological, and demographic trends.

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Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives

Harvard Business

billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012. They often openly advertise thinly-disguised criminal jobs in countries such as Belarus and Ukraine and use the new “employees” for low-level coding and as money mules.

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