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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

Mixing newer workflows with the processes and tools of the past can also give you an edge when recruiting for positions on your project team. Yes, people appreciate the ability to review project documents from wherever they are, or to hold simultaneous discussions in Slack and other collaboration platforms.

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Tips to Streamline Your ERP Project Cutover

PM Alliance

You may have internal collaborators who can take on more material procurement or staff recruiting tasks, for example, or a project management consulting partner experienced in ERP implementations who can help guide you back to solid ground. If your team appears to be in constant firefighting mode, look for resources to help.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Below are some of the skills they are looking for in interns: Familiarity with formal software development life-cycle (SDLC) methodology. Also, there are many layers of review before a presentation or document is actually finalized – understandable due to the firm’s core values of excellence and accuracy, but it eats into time.

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The Deep Flaw in MBB Strategic Planning

CaseInterview.com

When I first started recruiting for consulting jobs, an interviewer at Bain shared a story (arguably a legend at this point) about how Bain (or it might have been McKinsey) was asked to advise Motorola on whether or not they should enter the mobile phone market. This is not at all to pass judgment on these people.

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Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business

Using studies querying hundreds of customers that we recruited on Amazon Mechanical Turk, coupled with stock data analysis of hundreds of companies over the past decade, our research finds that firms can protect themselves from data breach harm by implementing two important privacy-focused practices that benefit customers.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

I think their recruiters love that because it’s an annuity for them. Many consulting firms spend time writing about their methodologies or writing about their own case studies to self-promote. Our website, www.Navalent.com , got all kinds of resources, articles on our work, on our methodologies. That’s been okay.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. This would defeat the denial of service attacks — a type of cyber-attack that involves recruiting bots to hit a website with millions of requests that causes the website to go down or to provide poor response time.