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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. For that reason, management consultants form the vast majority in the advisory branch – more than half of all advisors can be defined as a management consultant.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Meanwhile, agile methodologies continued to evolve. Ironically, that’s where it began — outside of IT.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology.

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Assess Whether You Have a Data Quality Problem

Harvard Business

Decision makers, leaders, data scientists, and managers often must make quick assessments about whether they can trust a set of data , whether they can include it in an analysis, or whether they need it to take a new direction. To follow its methodology, take these four steps. when the data is perfect.

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How Hospitals Are Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care

Harvard Business

Here we describe three examples of clinicians who are using outcomes measurement to improve clinical care. Computer adaptive testing methodology and branching logic reduced the burden on patients completing PRO questionnaires. Communicating successes like these is a powerful way to bring other physicians on board.

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Abt Associates Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Some examples include nationwide HIV prevention trials and the “ZdravReform” project of 1994, which was designed to strengthen the health systems of newly independent states such as Russia and Belarus. Information Technology Applications. And if you need advice with a project, management and senior staff are very helpful.

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Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?

Harvard Business

Many managers are missing digital signals that could help them better compete. A full explanation of our methodology and the rigorous process of residualization that was required of our hedge fund clients can be found here.). Managing against this measure is essential for all businesses that want to survive and grow.

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