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Figuring Out Your Billing Rate as an Independent Consultant

Successful Independent Consulting

Even if your pricing strategy is to use a fixed price or to use a hybrid approach (part fixed, part variable), use your base rate as the building block and to sanity check your package pricing. Other tips: Benchmark your rate to increase your confidence. Reassess your pricing strategy as your experience and confidence increase.

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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 provide valuable insights into market dynamics, pricing strategies, product positioning, and brand differentiation.

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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. This is the strategy followed by Apple.

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Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions

LSA Global

The Importance of Culture for Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and Acquisitions remain at the core of many executive team growth strategies. Smart acquisitions can provide immediate access to valuable new products, technologies, talent, intellectual property, clients, and geographies. The appeal is quite clear.

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

Harvard Business

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. Intellectual 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

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.