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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. directly integrated with core financials?

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Buying a Business in a Competitive Marketplace, how to Separate Yourself from the Pack?

Martinka Consulting

John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest business brokerage firm, have collaboratively completed a significant number of transactions involving the purchase & sale of privately held companies, including one already in 2017.

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Getting Old, Getting Stagnant, and That’s Trouble

Martinka Consulting

German business-chamber association DIHK says 73% of senior managers, “haven’t assembled the basic documents needed for a handover, such as power of attorney, supplier and client information, bank-access data or a will.” When the son took over the business they shed operations that were half of their sales and staff.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

Given historical competitive behaviors, how will sales likely change after the price reduction? If a client drops off 1,000 documents grouped into ten different categories, it’s a lot of work to read all 1,000 documents. Real-world application of this kind of skill would be as follows: The client intends to reduce prices by X%.

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A Transformation Is Underway at U.S. Veterans Affairs. We Got an Inside Look.

Harvard Business

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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