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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

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].” For example, shift from an hourly rate to a fixed fee so you’re compensated for your intellectual property.

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Role of US Business Consultants for Foreign Companies

Business Consulting Agency

Business consultants provide legal support, regulatory guidance, and assistance in areas such as business registration, visas, permits, intellectual property protection, contract negotiations, and tax compliance. They conduct risk assessments, scenario planning, crisis management strategies, and business continuity planning.

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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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Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. For example, the Denison Culture Survey measures four validated and benchmarked culture traits in the areas of mission, consistency, involvement, and adaptability.

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

MishTalk

However, the sheer quantity of patent holdings also helps deter attack and has led to an intellectual property arms race. Instead, Micron and Hyundai are taking Rambus to court, Intel has conceded that DDR is important for its Pentium 4, while stalinised benchmarks seem to suggest that those long on Rambus may well have been right.

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

Harvard Business

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods.

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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.