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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The larger firms like Bain, BCG, and McKinsey kept their promises. If the firms don’t have a strong balance sheet, if they foresee a potential cash flow problem, or if they have clients in particularly hard hit industries, I’d be concerned. Three prior downturns, what can we learn? Today, not so much.

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The Importance of Business Acumen for High Performance

LSA Global

A McKinsey survey of over 1,500 corporate directors revealed that only 36 percent had a complete understanding of their company’s financials. Study the Balance Sheet. With term definitions in hand, analyze your company’s balance sheet. EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortization).

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Tuesday, March 31, 2009. A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Why are the major "sick" banks the only vehicle to provide credit to businesses? Posted by Consultant Ninja.

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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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As European Banks Retreat from the World Stage, China Is Stepping Up

Harvard Business

Since 2007, gross cross-border capital flows have fallen by 65%, and half of that is due to a sharp reduction in cross-border lending and other banking activities, a new McKinsey Global Institute report finds. Without doubt, there will be more to come from China’s big four commercial banks.

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