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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. Seeing that the nature of strategy consulting differs from the other more implementation and operational driven areas, strategy consultants generally have a different profile than their peers.

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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Many of the world’s thought leaders believe that data will unlock a huge transformation in the way that businesses operate and thrive in the 21st Century. Data is information organized in a form that can be efficiently used by people or computers to make decisions. Data Proliferation. Required Skills. The bottom line.

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Is your small business making enough profit?

Asamby Consulting

Major cost and expense types The major types of cost are Cost of goods sold (COGS, including some of the below) Staff cost (salaries) Cost of financing (interest rates) Offices and buildings Energy Marketing cost Depending on your industry, different types might be dominant. For example to sell it or to hire an external CEO?

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Corporate and Finance and Advisory. Strategic Information Technology and Operations.

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Data Breaches Aren’t Just an IT Issue - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Harvard Business

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Physical theft and loss : Laptops, USB drives, printed papers, and other information assets that are stolen or disappear.

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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. This is particularly true for complex knowledge domains.

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Designing the Machines That Will Design Strategy

Harvard Business

But it’s dangerous and naïve to assume that better technology and more data guarantee better outcomes. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. For example, strategies in predictable classical environment require a logic of “analyze, plan, execute.”