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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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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. As the U.S.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

in Management Consulting. Value Partners Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Definitions. Helpful Links. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011.

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business

Regardless of whether a provider is developing predictive analytics in-house, as many large academic medical centers have done, or purchasing tools off the shelf, managers should make sure they are involving the right people throughout the entire process. Here are three lessons: Engage the Right People from the Outset. Insight Center.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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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. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.