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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. In 1998, IBM acquired The Chem Systems Group Inc. Marketing Sales & Service. Finance Risk.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. In all, four workers were killed.

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business

It traced much of the cause to a mismatch between its sales incentives and pricing strategy. The manufacturer was compensating sales representatives based solely on how much revenue they generated. invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools.

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

million in stock from their former partner Cisco Systems and, over the next year and a half, acquired 40 international subsidiaries from Arthur Anderson, who had just collapsed, and the German and Austrian consulting firms of KPMG. BearingPoint was also in the midst of integrating all of its international acquisitions into the old system.

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Capgemini Consulting Interviews – Tech, Business or Both?

Management Consulted

4 years later, Sogeti acquired both CAP, its major European competitor, and Gemini Computer Systems. Capgemini Consulting has an executive committee with a CEO, Xavier Hochet, and a Deputy CEO, Ken Toombs, who also doubles is the Global Sales Officer and CEO of Capgemini Consulting North America. Office Locations.

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Is There a Shortage of Skilled Workers? My Own Personal Experiences

MishTalk

Given all the media hype about the severe shortage of skills in the US and the need for more education and training, inquiring minds may be interested in alternative views. That job ended when Chase and Chemical merged. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. And as customers use Blast IQ and contribute more of their own data, over time, the company will have a large enough dataset to train more powerful machine learning models.

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