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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. There are three main types of business consultants. HR consultants may also be brought in by organizations to help transform the business culture or transform the HR department.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

They came up with incredible solutions in change management and supporting tools for the human resources side of marketing and sales. Travel & Transportation. Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology. sales force teams.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

All are putting that “hip” methodology to work in exactly the places where so many people have believed it was inappropriate. An exemplar of the new approach is WorleyParsons, a global engineering and construction firm that specializes in oilfield and other energy-related projects.