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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. Seeing that the nature of strategy consulting differs from the other more implementation and operational driven areas, strategy consultants generally have a different profile than their peers.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 3)

Markovitz Consulting

If something is “disruptive,” then it must by definition be good. But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. “Disruption” has become another business buzzword that obviates the need for prudent, careful thought and consideration.

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When should a startup hire a COO

Asamby Consulting

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. The classical definition of the COO is to be the second in command after the CEO. But without a doubt, having a COO in your startup will help to build a stable operational basis for future growth. Motives for this vary.

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5 reasons to choose strategy consulting over financial advisory consulting

Management Consulted

First, a 101 on strategy consulting for you newbies to the site – having an insider view into the strategy and operations of a company requires that you quickly become an expert on day-to-day activities in light of the overall company vision. In financial advisory consulting, consultants go very deep in one industry.

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Is your small business making enough profit?

Asamby Consulting

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. You can also increase you return on equity by using debt financing.

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Want to Conduct Organizational Assessments? Here's How to Get Started

Consulting Matters

But I'll just tell you here what's really important is you definitely want to make sure that you don't have managers and employees in the same focus group, you need to keep them separate. Sometimes legal and finance, they can be in a group together. Sometimes legal and finance, they can be in a group together.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Public Policy.