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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. There are 2 Senior Vice Presidents as well – one heads up Strategic Development and the other serves as Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. Intellectual Property.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Think of E as Enterprise Value. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly. Leadership is changing — fast. Responding rapidly to opportunity versus ensuring high quality.

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How to Set Up an AI R&D Lab

Harvard Business

The moment a hyped-up new technology garners mainstream attention, many businesses will scramble to incorporate it into their enterprise. Machine learning challenges have significantly increased in complexity since then and it takes years of training and experience to develop a well-honed intuition that can sniff these problems out.

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business

It should now be dawning on us that they also reflect a new reality when it comes to keeping legitimate business secrets, requiring a new mindset and strategies from those leading all kinds of enterprises, especially in knowledge-intensive industries. But also it is about developing a capability for reacting publicly, quickly and rapidly.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business

Owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor, which purchased the station, in 1926, for $250,000, the enterprise aimed to publicize its point of view. The firm had been buying his intellectual property with stock. Armstrong returned to service, developing FM radios for the Army, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel.