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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. For that reason, management consultants form the vast majority in the advisory branch – more than half of all advisors can be defined as a management consultant.

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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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The Significance of Flexibility in Organizational Structure

Clarity Consultants

Enhanced control –A tall structure gives senior management more control over the company’s operations. Communication challenges –Communication can be challenging in a tall structure, as information can get lost or distorted as it travels up and down the chain of command. Think of it as one giant game of telephone.

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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. Business Operations. Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises. Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. We have worked with some of these teams, and we have observed several others.