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Consultant Ninja: The Financial Crisis is a Wicked Problem.

Consultant Ninja

To digest all those wealth, bankers did their best to devour that money, hence the boom of all derivatives on what should be pretty boring fix income products. All those transactions have hidden the fact that the productivity of US has been steadily falling. Productivity. (6). April 6, 2009 at 9:34 AM. Anthony Jen. Consulting.

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Repositioning Is Not a New Business Model

Harvard Business

We see positioning in the airline industry. Australia, for instance, has three main domestic airlines: Qantas, Jetstar (Qantas’s no-frills line), and Virgin, which started out as no-frills and has since chased the business-class, high-margin segment. Store location became irrelevant — there are no stores.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

We focused on nine common types of corporate litigation: antitrust, employment civil rights, contract, environmental, intellectual property, labor, personal injury, product liability, and securities. We looked at over 70,000 lawsuits filed against our sample of firms in federal courts during those 10 years.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

Selling productized consulting. Maybe you really, really don’t like writing, but you still want to create a great piece of intellectual property that “sticks.” As a consultant, your product is your advice. Interviewing a potential client. Answering questions on your AMA page. Lead-generating website.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.-bound Half a billion dollars in lost productivity sounds like a big number.