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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

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

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Services offered include: complexity management, enterprise transformation, operations, procurement solutions, strategic information technology, strategy and sustainability. Financial Centre, Suites 2901-2904, 29th Floor. Founded in 1993, Value Partners Management Consulting has offices in 9 countries worldwide.

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. Clear, committed leadership and a culture strongly supportive of change and learning are also critical factors. Insight Center.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

For the contracts that remain, and also consulting contracts that are typically of shorter duration, there should be an explicit target return on investment, and the contractor should bear some financial risk for achieving that return. As the U.S.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future? “We become what we behold,” he wrote.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

We found leaders who talk a good game, but have no impact; leaders who make everything look great while they’re there, but everything falls apart after they leave; and leaders who improve the schools’ long-term financial performance, but exam results stay the same. But fundamentally, nothing changes.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

Several key lessons emerge when heavy commitments to digital capability development meet basic financial performance problems. There’s something different about technological change that causes senior executives in large, established firms to act differently than they might otherwise.