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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. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). For instance, financial consultants provide advice to organizations on financial matters.

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Bad Data Costs the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year

Harvard Business

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. I call the added steps the “ hidden data factory.”

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Data Breaches Aren’t Just an IT Issue - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Harvard Business

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Point-of-sale (POS) intrusions : Attacks that capture payment data from POS systems. You don’t know who’s behind it.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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Deflation Will Return: Europe First, Then US; Global Supply Arbitrage

MishTalk

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. For details, please see Employment vs. Jobs Discrepancy based on December 2013 Data, released in January. residential sales in December, up from 38.1 Wal-Mart, J.C.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

The firm was temporarily acquired by Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1995 but was bought back by partners in 2006, just in time for the company’s 80th anniversary. Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities.