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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

a full-service engineering and information technology staffing company, helping to grow the business to eight figures in sales and over 200 employees, he successfully exited the business in January 2010. His formal education includes a Ph.D.

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The rules and procedures that govern how organizations use technology to conduct business, Information technology (IT) policies are crucial to security, efficiency and productivity and shouldn’t be considered optional, static or one-size-fits all.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

These services focused on business management and information technology. IBM’s target market for consulting services became the clients who were willing to pay for higher-value corporate services packages of research, software and services. Information Technology. Marketing Sales & Service.

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Abt Associates Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Some of the first contracts the firm won, including elementary school educational games and national security, demonstrate how they started off in the same way they wanted to continue. In 2007, Abt bought the NYC-based research firm SRBI, combining two market leaders and greatly impacting both companies. Practice Areas. Industries .

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Paying Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers

Harvard Business

Nevertheless, few would argue that information technology permanently increased unemployment. So proposed solutions tend to involve reforming education and worker training programs. As computers replaced traditional typewriters, the skills of typists who did not know how to work with a word processor grew obsolete.

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Who Killed the GE Model?

Harvard Business

Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Second, that GE had a technology advantage in complex industries, and that its technologies could be shared across its businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. One can certainly make the case that we are falling into an abyss.