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Consultant Ninja: Booz & Company consultant-ese: Management.

Consultant Ninja

All too often we receive renumeration from world renowned enterprises for our broad reaching exotic linguistic constructions, creating internal incentives for the production of voluminous manuals and reports. :-) You must have Black Belt Sensei training! Productivity. (6). Looking forward to reading your other posts.

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live.

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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China Announces SOE Shakeup: Too Little Too Late to Matter

MishTalk

SOEs are State Owned Enterprises. The SOEs also created jobs, but did so at huge expense: By taking productive land from farmers, by massive pollution, vacant cities and malls, forced migration, and an untenable reliance on fixed investment growth. What are SOEs? Who Benefited From Them?

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Why Facebook Messenger Is a Big Deal for Customer Service

Harvard Business

For a long time, Facebook Messenger seemed to be secondary to Facebook’s core business – a product feature rather than something more. You can complain to an airline on Twitter about a flight delay but you have to go through a song and dance to see if the person at the other end can help.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. This action will entail making unfamiliar and uncomfortable choices, including balancing short-term returns with supporting economic and societal progress to strengthen enterprises for the long term.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.