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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Solopreneurs who come from “name” firms like PwC or McKinsey can charge more than those who come from industry. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Do an internet search such as “typical hourly rate for change management consultant in [your location].”

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Role of US Business Consultants for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Market Entry Strategy and Planning US business consultants bring extensive knowledge of the US market, industry trends, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape. They assist in partner identification, due diligence, negotiations, and relationship management to drive business growth and market penetration.

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An Insight into Special Services: Transfer Pricing

Tom Spencer

Firms do this mainly by searching for companies with similar profiles, and benchmarking prices against those used in the broader market. A showcase example are royalties paid for patents and other intellectual property. Multinational corporations like to take advantage of any ambiguity. This is the strategy followed by Apple.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. We normally think of people as something to be managed. Intellectual capital. Human capital.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.

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Google Strikes Back in Patent Wars; Decades Long Litigation; Return to the Beginning Fistfight

MishTalk

The patent race among industry leaders has threatened to overwhelm smaller technology companies, forcing them to mount their own acquisition campaigns to defend themselves. However, the sheer quantity of patent holdings also helps deter attack and has led to an intellectual property arms race.