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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). For instance, financial consultants provide advice to organizations on financial matters. liquidity risk, interest rate risk, default risk).

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Because culture is resilient and implicit, it is not susceptible to change. Also, as momentum builds, more people become involved, and it becomes more visible and harder to stop.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future? BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business

Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team. Things were looking up on all fronts except one.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In the mid 1970s, as public opinion swayed toward greater accountability for the finance industry, Peat Marwick took steps to firm up controls on its accounting practice and increase transparency. Capabilities: Finance. Business Process Management. Change Management. Global Business Services. Human Resources.