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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

But if you want to thrive in the post-COVID world, you’ve got to start working on operational improvements now. Sample development The dress maker designs dresses in the US and uses contract factories in Asia for manufacturing. In total, the back and forth shipping of samples could add weeks to the product development timeline.

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Eight Secret Weapons of the Modern Consultant

Steve Shu Consulting

Although I’ve developed a number of blog posts addressing the practice of management consulting, I have spent little time tying things together into a framework of secret weapons of the modern consultant. A modern consultant is a professional that can work in dynamic industries, operate within multiple types of consulting organizations (e.g.,

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. How did he think up such a career?

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

We discuss concepts to help listeners advance their strategy, operations and implementation skills, enhance their critical thinking ability and build their executive presence. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz. Sales for Nerds ( [link] ) helps technical experts who started their own business hack the sales and marketing process.

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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. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Is AI Technology on the Verge of Displacing Humans?

Effective Managers

Check these out: Global AI experts sound the alarm in unique report – University of Cambridge The AI Arms Race Is Changing Everything – Times Magazine How to Survive the A.I. Think unskilled and technical work: taxi driver, labourer, mechanic, baker, assembler, bookkeeper, brick layer, carpenter, call centre operator, receptionist, and so on.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand.