Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the previous article , we introduced the key skills an effective consultant is expected to possess — but now what? As an aspiring consultant, simply knowing which skills to show on your CV is not enough; you’ll also need to know how to hone and highlight these skills, which is what we’ll be covering in this article.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This article discusses what this wireless technology is about, some of the advantages 5G offers, and the future direction of 5G as it relates to online sports betting. Growth of the Live Sports Betting Market. As a result, the implementation of 5G is likely to lead to growth in the live sports betting market. But, what is 5G?

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Management Consulted

MAY 29, 2016

Boston Consulting Group on Strategy is a compilation of 82 valuable articles called Perspectives, 4 Harvard-reviewed business articles and 8 other articles written by various members of The Boston Consulting group between 1968 to 2005. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. QUICK OVERVIEW.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 11, 2023

In this article, we will showcase the tremendous benefits of starting a business with the help of a business consulting agency. These experts provide guidance in key areas such as business planning, market research, financial analysis, operations management, and strategic decision-making.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire. Similar firm in a different market. Synergistic product line firm. Contract manufacturer (of your product).

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2018

On June 2, 2018 Jason Zweig’s article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “ The Fanciful Alphabet Soup Companies Use to Fool You.” The premise of the article was most of the financial jargon used to provide insights into companies’ health are make-believe and don’t reflect actual conditions, i.e. true profitability. Conclusion.

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Women in Consulting

JUNE 12, 2014

We can also do specific things that can increase our cash flow. In this article, I want to stick to income ideas. Here are 5 things you can do to increase income and profits: Offer new services or products. Upsell additional services/products to current clients. Know your revenue mix gross income.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Yet that income stream is weakening, as low-risk investment yields dip toward 0% and central banks continue to drain the bond markets. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And —rather than selling physical products, they deal in less tangible resources like time, insights, and expertise – billed either by hour or by project. In this article, we’ll provide a high-level overview of where the professional services industry is right now – and what current conditions mean for project-based organizations.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A recent Business Brokerage Press newsletter featured an article titled, “ What Serious Buyers Look For. Those topics were the industry, inventory, cut backs in spending on marketing, R&D, etc. Then it’s can they get behind the product, will it challenge them or bore them, and does it line up with their personal values?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

At the industry level they include (a) the extent of AI diffusion in economies; (b) the build-up of corporate profit; and (c) labor market dynamics. It took more than 30 years for electricity to diffuse and enable industrial plant design that could generate significant productivity growth.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

This article covers two sides of the same coin for independent consultants: how to set up your business for success and what expenses to track to pay less tax. Avoid a full-time or long-term lease so you can keep your expenses as low as possible, especially in the beginning when cash flow will be tighter. They're interrelated.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This is the second of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track. Read the original article here. They are trying to sell intangible benefits such as: – Increased productivity. – Better cash flow. What should I Do next?

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

An interesting title of an article about how the author helps his company’s clients, isn’t it? Good employees are hard to find and often are not in the job market. Great employees with industry knowledge and experience are in the job market even less. This was originally written for the blog on www.ibainc.com. Yes, we can!

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This is the second of five articles about the 5 Pillars of Marketing, my marketing model that helps get your marketing on track. Read the original article here. They are trying to sell intangible benefits such as: – Increased productivity. – Better cash flow. What should I do next?

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Market trends? The bottom line? Retain talent?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

tax law is likely to increase after-tax cash flows for U.S.-based There’s a strong argument that they should invest in growth , and the newly available cash offers them a unique chance to do so. The intrinsic value of a company with growing cash flows doubles every time the discount rate is cut in half.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. John Hussman had a thought-provoking article this week on the The Minsky Bubble.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. What caused this slump?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. Yet the value of establishing demand before you launch the business is just as important for us, whether we’re launching a new company or simply a new product. Check for search traffic.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

These companies are able to attract and keep the right customers, those who value its product or service and will purchase year after year. A rapidly growing firm also attracts competitors, which see the expanding market and the opportunity to attract new customers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Since I last wrote about the company , theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success , and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan and flip-flopped both its pricing and its product. This ad strategy led to its quest to scale as quickly as possible, given its cash burn.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. One milestone might include completion of prototype-level next-generation digital products.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Here are three things that Western investors should want from African entrepreneurs: a focus on the top of the pyramid, control over factors of production, and innovation in distribution rather than in products. Factors of Production. Today his Nice Rice Mill processes 70% of the region’s rice production.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. They estimate that online lenders will constitute nearly a fifth of the total SME lending market by then.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Earlier today, reader Charles asked me what I thought about an article on ZeroHedge entitled " Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse? " The BIS slam, coupled with a recent stock market selloff, brought up debate on a " controlled collapse ". Increased risk-taking also manifested itself in other credit market segments.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

First, small businesses tend to be more productive than larger ones and may be especially unlikely to invest in risk management that diverts resources from production. In essence, the fortunate firms took on more debt, committing the business to a stream of cash flows and expenses far into the future to pay for their losses.

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