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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. This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. What value do consultants provide?

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

Harvest cost/pricing data. It is time to break open the accounting system and harvest past performance cost and pricing data. This data is a key enabler to credible bases of estimates and proof of cost reasonableness. The data helps the pricing team to answer basic pricing questions such as: How many hours does it take?

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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 specializes in 4 areas: Analytics Transformation, Big Data Analytics, Data Visualization and Predictive Analytics. Transportation & Travel.

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

Traditional ZBB implementations focus almost exclusively on simple SG&A , in part because SG&A benchmark data is far more readily attainable than are relevant data from the core functions of comparable companies. In another company, commercial discounts was essentially a black box for the finance chief and CEO.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

“I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. Now, however, students’ college and pre-MBA experience is more likely to be in a finance area or perhaps in coding. Selling is increasingly a research-based activity.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. An invitation-only request for information from ECEN leads to an extensive review of the system’s quality, outcomes, and patient satisfaction data.