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Overcoming Data Collection Challenges in Consulting

Tom Spencer

We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. For example, instead of asking for the average payroll for each department over time, ask for a representative current salary of an employee in each department: sales, operations, finance.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation.

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

Money is not really respected in academia, and so most of the attention tends to focus on other topics: the interaction between buyers and sellers, the structure of industries, statistical modelling, the valuation of financial assets, and so on. For example, imagine Coca-Cola (an American company) sells cans of Coke in Australia.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. So far, the industry does not appear to be doing that. percent to $160.7

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business

When investors look at climate risk – if they do at all – they’ve focused mainly on what worldwide action to reduce carbon will do to the fossil fuel industry. These so-called “stranded assets,” sitting on petro-company balance sheets, are essentially worthless.

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