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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). Conclusion.

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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

“There was a doctor from Boston and a lawyer from Chicago, a philosopher from Australia and an engineer from France. Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. There were people who had Ph.D.’s Image: Pexels.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

The office is incredibly diverse, with some of the best talent from 35+ countries and folks that speak 29 languages. In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications).

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. It takes time to discover, disambiguate, and deploy knowledge.

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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. While hiring less-skilled workers hurts a firm’s productivity, the data shows that companies still did this in order to take advantage of the fact that hiring these workers is so much cheaper.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business

It has at least 21 data science systems , which include several supply chain optimization systems, an inventory forecasting system, a sales forecasting system, a profit optimization system, a recommendation engine, and many others. Further second- and third-order interactions occur downstream.