Tom Spencer

MARCH 13, 2016

Strategy consultants work with the CEO and senior management to address strategic problems including declining profitability, growth strategy, market entry, product development, or responding to a competitive threat. For more information on the management consulting industry, download our “ Guide to Management Consulting “ ].

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The benefit of bringing in specialist consultants is that they are likely to have experience solving similar problems and an understanding of industry best practice. Restructuring is a niche service which requires specialized knowledge and industry experience. software development) consultants may represent a cost-effective solution.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. As we worked with clients who have been granted positions at this firm, we’ve developed some interesting perspectives on this company.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, after the ENRON scandal erupted, SOX restructured the consulting industry, and BearingPoint battled to find its own way in the world, the firm struggled with its independence from its Big 4 parent. was still using the old software from KPMG to handle all of their accounting and human resource functions. Information Technology.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. They keep customers happier.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Originally founded in 1982 by Dan Luczak as “Forensic Technologies International Ltd., Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

McKinsey works internationally in a broad range of industries with large private sector institutions, governments and other non-profit institutions. Nous service lines include business strategy, public policy, leadership & people development, organisational capability, and information management & technology.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Because implementing these technologies is a key factor in deciding how to move forward, I’ve combined the cognitive entry points into three categories: “Mostly Buy,” “Some Buy, Some Build,” and “Mostly Build.” Use an existing vendor’s software with cognitive capabilities.

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QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

The process can include strategic (developing a new IT strategy or cybersecurity approach) to tactical (such as the selection of an IT system) to highly operational (such as the development of an application). Artificial Intelligence has become mainstream over the years in the digital industry.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

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. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

By doing so, they are testing the limits of the potential power of repurposing online retail innovations that consumers have become accustomed to in varied industries and potentially revamping healthcare in the process. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture. No strategy is static.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry. Development approaches. Selecting project managers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. These leaders often head legacy companies that have long histories in physical industries. These leaders often “grew up” in digital industries.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

Some have responded by developing a concept known as “ ambidexterity ,” an organizational capability of fulfilling both managerial imperatives at once. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Despite efforts among software vendors to create self-service tools for data preparation , this proportion of work is likely to stay the same for the foreseeable future, for a couple of reasons. Software applications are written at one point in time, for a particular group in the company. Insight Center. Structural. Vendor lock-in.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

billion, including most major firms in the manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and retail industries. Within the core business, digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way Honeywell creates and captures value for its industrial customers through new efficiencies and services that unlock new value.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In contrast, industrial giant GE’s stock price has declined by 44 % over the last year, as news emerged about its first losses in last 50 years. Why do investors react negatively to financial statement losses for an industrial firm but disregard such losses for a digital firm?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Almost alone among industrialized nations, the United States does not systematically collect data on mental health care outcomes and lacks any nationwide means for harnessing it. BHDP requires the use of an additional information system because the electronic health record (EHR) system used by the U.S.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

IBM was founded in 1911 and has a rich history of ingenuity, deep convictions, premier research and development, and trend setting. These services focused on business management and information technology. Information Technology. Cognizant – very technology focused. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

As companies introduce software bots and digital self-service, and as they transform assembly lines, they must bring along their key employees, leaders, and customers as they redefine jobs, career paths, workforce management, and social contracts. So early preparation is needed. Lessons from automakers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Change Management Management Software Productivity 36

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2018

In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. As simple as it is, the industry has often failed to engage the end user in building solutions. Jamie Jones/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Economists developed the theory of network effects in the 1970s and burnished it in the 1990s, and business gurus, entrepreneurs, and the tech media enshrined it as one of the guiding lights of the new economy. In the past, network effects were hard to reverse in industries that relied on physical networks such as railroads and telephones.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy. In fact, research suggests that big firms are dominating through their use of software. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Hawaii is not even up and running yet due to software glitches. In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace, told industry executives that he was deeply worried about the Web site’s debut. It’s an unprecedented experiment in federal information technology.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. But in April, just after U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

There’s a tremendous amount of information and structured data now available to guide treatment, assess outcomes, and measure quality of care. Beyond EHRs, digital health tools — apps, wearable devices, and other hardware and software that measures and monitors health — are becoming common in consumers’ lives.

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