Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Data is information organized in a form that can be efficiently used by people or computers to make decisions. For example, in 2021 the median salary for data scientists in America was around US$100,000 per year. Data Proliferation. Required Skills. This is much faster than the average growth rate for all occupations of around 5%.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For all industries, an average of 60-80% of IT budgets are allocated to keeping legacy systems running. Some of our clients have started with CRM implementation, for example, and then moved on to back-office ERP and Project Management and Accounting. What are Legacy Systems?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Blockchain technology is making a strong impact in the finance industry due to the fact that it enables decentralization and direct peer-to-peer transactions. Removing the financial intermediary, i.e. the bank, can increase convenience, efficiency, and security. Hackers with a deep understanding of the code managed to steal 3.6

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

At its start, Oliver Wyman capitalized on the deregulation of the financial services industry. Mercer (with Oliver Wyman) developed the number of industries served and capabilities expertise, and after a period of exponential growth eventually chose to make Oliver Wyman the catch-all name for anything MMC but non-human resources focused.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. Let me provide two examples so you can see the PARADE Method in action. Given the political environment, I chose Option B.". What was the outcome?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 8, 2019

Asset management as an industry is becoming increasingly important for a variety of reasons: The world is getting wealthier, driven by growth in emerging markets. Smart Beta is an adjustment to beta exposure (replicating an index) by looking for efficiencies to add value (alpha) or meet a mandate. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Can the buyer easily finance the acquisition? M&A Case Examples. Ok, now that you know how to analyze M&A situations, let’s step through a few real life examples of acquisitions and their rationale. Mergers are common in the automotive industry and usually motivated by a central reason. Image: Pexels.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Decreased productivity: Bad teamwork can lead to decreased productivity as team members may struggle to work together efficiently. Poor Leadership: Many leaders at the top come from a finance background and this inhibits their focus on people. Others just do not care. They value power, money, and influence over people and purpose.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). 3 Defenses of Large ICOs. 3 Defenses of Large ICOs.

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freshminds

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

If there is too much volume bought or sold at too high or too low a price, the finances of the entire company can rocket or plummet. Consultants often offer advice on how to cut costs and therefore drive profits up as well as analyse sales and stocks to work out the most efficient ways of selling products.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2017

Cryptocurrency uses a decentralized digital communications “protocol” called blockchain to facilitate value transfer extremely efficiently. Bilur, as described in industry press in early May, is a “new Ethereum-based cryptocurrency that wants to compete with Bitcoin.”. That said, it is a decent place to start. Image: Shanghai Daily.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Georgia-Pacific is an Atlanta-based pulp and paper company with an 88-year history as an industry leader. Employees at every level are encouraged to be entrepreneurial and think of new and creative ideas to increase efficiency and grow business. 28% of Management Consultants Pursue Finance. Related posts: Post Consulting Jobs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The investment industry is changing. These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. This disconnect is a major problem for the continuing development of efficient capital markets. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Note the diversity of industries Cornerstone Research works with, especially as many of these are quite specialized. Industries. However, the cases that these law firms are involved in can represent any industry imaginable, from telecommunications to manufacturing and everything in between. Accounting. Antitrust and Competition.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

As you develop the standard content, you will uncover both good and bad examples of sterling and not-so-sterling prose. Retain both example types to demonstrate how you want to shape the narrative that conveys the basics. For example, a pricing lead may also take a turn in finance assessing indirect rate impacts.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2018

Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%. ” In contrast, men were characterized as ambitious, risk-taking, and eager to test their ideas.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

In highly cited articles in HBR , Michael Jensen, a faculty member at HBS, and arguably the most prominent agency theorist, put forth a harsh criticism of diversification as a main example of managerial opportunism at the expense of shareholders’ wealth. Let’s look at one example from our data.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Example #1: Applying for a position at a much higher level than your current job title. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

These will often heighten your efficiency as to who should be considered a worthwhile prospect to meet with at all, thereby increasing each sales call’s likelihood of success. A few examples: size of company, revenue of company, industry your client companies serve, officer in company who typically makes the decision to hire you, etc.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As the electric power industry shifts from a model where individual local utilities have a monopoly on electricity provision in a region to a much more dynamic market, these prosumers will be able to make and sell a variety of obscure new products and services like frequency regulation. B operated the same way as A, with no special control.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

We call these individuals “doctorpreneurs,” and believe they are key to fixing the problems of the health care industry. Another example of a doctorpreneur is Atul Gawande. They pursue cost reduction aggressively , because, as one doctorpreneur told us, “if a solution is not affordable, it is not a solution.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The companies we surveyed – in 13 manufacturing and service industries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America – are using AI much more frequently in computer-to-computer activities and much less often to automate human activities. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Economist Luigi Zingales mentions the Blockbuster story in a recent paper as an example of how the economy ought to work. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. Firms concentrate on what they’re good at, adopt new technology, and deliver products and services more efficiently. Take Facebook as an example.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Examples include excessive litigation or financial traders trying to beat the market. Although economists have long focused on policies that promote the acquisition of human capital through education, the efficient allocation of the resulting talent is just as important. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

For Tesla, adding more human labor to the mix means extending traditional jobs with additional responsibilities that would help ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Alien Dreadnought. Similarly, equipment maintenance technicians need more than just the know-how to diagnose and troubleshoot industrial equipment.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. Year-on-year price increases for existing therapies have allowed the industry to maintain profitability, but those short-term fixes have come at a heavy cost: decreased public satisfaction with the industry and increased political scrutiny.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For example, Lycamobile, a big mobile VNO, focuses on expatriate communities looking for low-cost international pay-as-you-go calls in 19 countries. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. Model 2: Asset capacity pooling.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

Your important priorities might relate to: enacting your values (for example, volunteering or spending more time with your children). achieving public recognition (getting invited to sit on industry panels or writing a book). improving vital skills (upping your knowledge of statistics or learning a new language).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

Today, for example, social media companies are expected to uncover and remove terrorist recruitment videos and messages almost instantly. Banks, for example, are halting financial crimes much more quickly and cheaply than they used to by using AI for automating processes and conducting multilayered “deep learning” analyses.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Let’s look at four examples of how different corporations responded when faced with this question.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

Money is not really respected in academia, and so most of the attention tends to focus on other topics: the interaction between buyers and sellers, the structure of industries, statistical modelling, the valuation of financial assets, and so on. For example, imagine Coca-Cola (an American company) sells cans of Coke in Australia.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. Though my experience is in the financial sector, these lessons apply to other industries as well. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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