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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! Looking forward to reading your other posts. March 1, 2011 at 9:23 AM. Analysis.

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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. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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China Announces SOE Shakeup: Too Little Too Late to Matter

MishTalk

SOEs are State Owned Enterprises. China Announces SOE Shakeup As a proposed remedy to this mess, China Plans Shake-Up of State-Owned Enterprises to Boost Growth. China has unveiled the much-awaited guidelines for reform of its bloated state-owned enterprise sector as the latest official data show its economy continuing to slow.

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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.

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Why Facebook Messenger Is a Big Deal for Customer Service

Harvard Business

For Messenger to show up as an option, so soon after launch, shows Facebook’s reach inside large organizations; in other words, it’s the secret sauce of enterprise software combined with the ubiquity of mobile devices. Twitter is aware of its limitations and is rolling out customer-service tools for enterprises.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

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. The agenda goes far beyond political activism; it attacks root causes by committing to sustaining an inclusive model of economic growth.

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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. You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. At the end, we delivered to our client a great report and it helped him a lot.