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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. He attributes FBRs previous success to a unique methodology. 2010-Present: Off the road 2009 Stats: Airline Miles: 24,902 Nights away from home: 73 (of 216: 34% of nights) AMEX Charges: $21,220 2008 Stats: Airline miles: 87,589 Nights away from home: 159 (of 365: 43.6%

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How Design Thinking Turned One Hospital into a Bright and Comforting Place

Harvard Business

For example, they learned about scheduling from the just-in-time practices of the upscale Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn and KLM, the Netherlands’ flagship airline. An example of a more complex change to the hospital’s operations is the newly created culture and training program called “Eye Care Air.”

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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

With this model, an investment can be defined as strategic, key operational, support, or high potential. Key operational investments sustain existing business operations, helping to avoid any disadvantage. Executives can sometimes struggle differentiating between key operational and support investments.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. There are no shortcuts.

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You Can’t Secure 100% of Your Data 100% of the Time

Harvard Business

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. This statistic is alarming, but in fact it significantly understates the scope of the threat.

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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. No other occupation offers you an insight into corporate strategy or operations in such a short time. Having had a glimpse of this world, I decided to leave academia and apply to consulting firms.”