Steve Shu Consulting

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Management consulting projects can span diverse areas from operational to finance to marketing to strategy to IT management, etc. For example, you can see this in some of the digital agency like efforts (e.g.,investigate Are there other models? There are other modern, consultative models emerging.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? However, we struggled to calculate profitability over time, as the client had multiple kinds of products and used various procurement methods. In our recent project, we took this option.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 19, 2019

In technology and software companies, there are product management (PM) and product marketing management (PMM) roles. They both focus on a product, so how do they divide the tasks that need to be done? So, what happens to other tasks like product strategy? Example: Xbox Console Development and Marketing.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2013

A perfect example came up today. Industrial production in the currency bloc''s second largest economy fell 0.3% Over the three months through October, industrial production was 0.6% Over the three months through October, industrial production was 0.6% rise in industrial production. rise in October.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

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).

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Tom Spencer

JULY 25, 2021

The justification for the status quo is usually that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” While simplistic assumptions do make for easier math, and can help to predict market outcomes in stylised scenarios, the real world is both complex and dynamic. Factors of production. In reality, firms have a range of goals.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 24, 2022

Blockchain has already had a significant impact in the finance industry with the global cryptocurrency market cap now exceeding $1 trillion. There are practical examples of where blockchain has already been applied to generate significant economic value. Blockchain looks set to be deployed in many other industries.

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

For example, The Great Man showed up for budget review in a white limo, flanked by two black SUVs. For example, CEOs pay is 399 times more than the average worker. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. GM market share fell from 62.6%

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. What’s going on in the market? Each of these routes is suited for different situations.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. As a result, the value of many of these securities plummeted to zero when the housing market crashed.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2023

Take for example an AI system that is trained on data from a specific geographic region, let’s say a wealthy city in the United States. Another example would be an AI system that is trained on data from a specific industry, such as the finance sector. For example, consider the use of AI in financial consulting.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Although all data is field specific, for example health care data collected from a hospital, data scientists can often operate without specific domain expertise as they apply powerful statistical methods to uncover meaningful correlations in large datasets. Job Market Prospects. Required Skills. According to the U.S.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you read the article above or any of the other articles you can find online, you might notice Economies of Scale focus on production—specifically manufacturing production. That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Create Overarching Goals for an example of this.)

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets. While both the size of the market and its growth rate are both large, so is its carbon footprint. The Aviation Market. Ever since the Wright Brother’s famous first flight in 1903, the aviation market has gone nowhere but up. per year over the same period.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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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Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, sorting numbers is an easy problem when there are only five or six, but when you have to sort 5,000, a totally different algorithm is needed. There are Big-O problems in marketing, in sales, in customer service, in finance, in production and in compliance. Business models have this baked in.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 11, 2019

as an Associate Consultant Intern, started his full-time career at a TMT (Technology, Media & Telecom) focused boutique consulting firm, and is now the youngest VP running the strategy and analytics practice at one of the most prominent advertising and marketing services companies. Ensuring synergy between brands, products, and services.

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Progressus

MARCH 1, 2024

Increased Productivity: Streamlines project workflows, reducing time wasted on administrative tasks. For example, a marketing agency can use Project Management software to track the progress of various campaigns, ensuring timely delivery and optimal resource allocation.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. They help you analyze and optimize your marketing efforts.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, digital marketing executives would just focus on digital marketing; sales executives on sales for a particular set of products, and so on. Overall, you won’t really get this breadth of exposure this early in your career anywhere else.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Shared Goals Across Functions Can Help Break Down Functional Silos Traditionally, most employees are organized by expertise, department, or location to pursue isolated and specialized objectives — e.g., sales, marketing, finance, design, production, and so on.

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The introduction of new product or service lines into an existing customer base is a challenge that companies often face with new business development. As an example of a project on the right side, that same software company may be looking to introduce new platform capabilities such that indirect, 3rd parties can develop applications (e.g.,

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I thought I’d offer my perspective from the last 35 years of observing the equity markets, including four stock market crashes. For example, you take out a loan to buy a car or a house. At one point, more shares of GameStop had been sold short than exist in the public stock market. First, let's start with the basics.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. CJES), postponed financings this month as sentiment soured. oil production which requires abundant capital,” Lafakis said. The debt rout is one of the latest examples of a boom and bust in U.S. Junk bonds of Energy XXI Ltd.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The productivity myth We live our personal and professional lives in an increasingly efficient and productive world. Without realizing we celebrate the idea of “more” in all of its shapes and forms as we often admire: The company with most revenue The product with most features The organization with most people. …

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Steve Shu Consulting

MARCH 21, 2014

For those unfamiliar with the term “behavioral economics”, I generally describe behavioral economics as a combination of psychology and a traditional science like economics or finance. For example, why do some people help or punish others when it is not in their best economics interests to do so?

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Central banks pursue “inflation at any cost” in order to oil the wheels of the credit markets. Although gold coins are not currently used as money, as they were in Cantillon’s day, the analogy of Cantillon’s gold mine example to today’s situation will hopefully be clear. trillion over the last 5 months.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The market. The first area consultants typically analyze in M&A cases is the market. This is extremely important because a big part of the success or failure of the acquisition will depend on broader market dynamics. How big is the market? How profitable is the market? How heavily regulated is the market?

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

There are many new innovations that allow companies to finance purchases creatively in order to meet their goals over the long term. Here are four (4) examples of financial innovations that can make your business easier to run. Check out this review as an example. Finance Tools. Peer Lending. Online Banking.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 1, 2019

Retail investors largely invest in mutual funds or segregated funds , although there is increasingly a flow into ETFs (for example, iShares by BlackRock ) for passive investing – sometimes via automated platforms such as robo-advisers.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. However, the largest firms cover both retail and instutional clients – the best example being BlackRock. Major traditional asset managers include: Blackrock. Franklin Resources. T Rowe Price.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2021

However, in case you are still not convinced, here are two concrete examples. Imagine that you did not succeed with the consulting offer and instead start as an employee in the area of business development, finance, or marketing. Your manager gives you a task that needs to be completed. How should you proceed?

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 30, 2022

The following is an example of business topics consultants assist clients with. Sales/Marketing. Product Development. Capital/Financing. Business consulting topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following are as follows: Business Consulting Topics. Retail/E-Commerce. Corporate Filing. Vendor Relations.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Below, we’ll dig into these market forces and what they mean for professional services firms moving forward. As an example, just look at legacy consulting. In part, that means abandoning old ways of measuring productivity. Digitalization is forcing professional services firms to fundamentally transform existing business models.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2020

For example, Marketing can decide on a new social media campaign or Finance can purchase new accounting software without making it a matter of team discussion. For example, a VP of Software Development would not normally involve the senior leadership team in hiring and firing decisions.

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