Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. As a former consultant who decided to move from consulting to industry, I would like to share my personal journey on how I landed my opportunity in corporate strategy/M&A. Corporate Strategy.

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Management Consulted

JULY 22, 2013

From the variety of work and access to C-level executives to the wide array of exit opportunities, strategy operations consulting far surpassed financial advisory consulting as our recommended career to pursue. Find it here: 5 reasons to choose strategy operations over financial advisory consulting. Missed part one?

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 14, 2023

Wealth management is a critical field that helps high net worth individuals and families to achieve their financial goals and maintain their financial assets over the long-term. Wealth managers assist their clients to do this through a combination of strategies involving financial planning, investment management, and risk management.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 30, 2023

The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. Wealth Management vs Asset Management Many people interchangeably use the term asset and wealth management.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2023

Net Promoter Score This Finance Organization created a leadership academy to help improve their business partnering, intra-team partnering, and collaboration capabilities to better serve their internal clients to meet high growth goals. Creating specific strategies for working with different personalities and situations.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 9, 2024

They help define clear business objectives, value propositions, revenue models, and growth strategies that align with market trends and investor expectations. They provide insights into product development, feature prioritization, UX/UI enhancements, and scalability strategies that drive innovation and customer satisfaction.

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The Management Centre

APRIL 8, 2024

Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group In this interview Chris Chadford, Learning and Development Manager at the Calico Group, shares his experience of developing managers so they have commercial, financial and innovation skills. What changes were you aiming to see?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Traditionally, consultants come from backgrounds in finance, strategy, economics, or business management. Top firms tend to recruit graduates from target business schools, and the industry is notoriously quantitative and analytical.

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

As part of a well-functioning business development system and a well-respected pricing strategy practice, keep your pricing team apprised of upcoming bids. The best opportunities come from early pricing strategy homework that includes subcontractor inputs. Ten of the most dynamic and synergistic pricing practices are right here.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I recently wrote an article about the difference between Planned vs. Emergent Career Strategies. The emergent strategy sometimes reveals itself in the process of pursuing the original career plan. a venture capitalist, and a management consultant. This is a classic risk management problem. What’s the worst?

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Steve Shu Consulting

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Prior to my current role, I spent many years in the traditional management consulting space. As I see it, the traditional segment of the management consulting industry values MBAs primarily because it facilitates a plug-and-play kind of model where people are interchangeable and can start working on a broad swathe of business problems.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Getting Frontline Managers Aligned with Strategy. For a corporate strategy to be successful, it must be understood, believable, and implementable enough. And that means getting frontline managers aligned with strategy. Why the Focus on Frontline Managers? Strategic Clarity.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table. You have to keep the truth straight in your mind: "I am not an expense to be managed, I am an investment that generates a powerful return!".

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

EVEN if you feel the crunch on the finances, you do not want to under-value what you can bring to the table. You have to keep the truth straight in your mind: "I am not an expense to be managed, I am an investment that generates a powerful return!".

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Tom Spencer

MAY 10, 2024

Understanding what the GRE is, how it aids in unlocking master’s programs, particularly MBAs, and effective preparation strategies is crucial for prospective graduate students. Here are some strategies to help candidates navigate the preparation process. The GRE is a timed test, so practicing time management is crucial.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 29, 2024

Whatever the case may be, this article will outline the secrets to winning a strategy case competition and why winning does not need to be complex. For example, if a case is related to business, it is likely to involve questions about finance and accounting, strategy, and marketing.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

List of Global Strategy Firms in 2013. BELOW is a hand-picked list of leading Global Strategy Firms. Maybe not, but seeing as Sydney is at the other end of the earth you would expect a truly global strategy firm to have an office there (if you want to see a list of purely Aussie strategy firms for 2013, click here ).

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freshminds

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A Strategy Analyst is responsible for identifying the needs of business and determining the direction it needs to go in to excel and succeed. Common Strategy Analyst tasks include: Helping research and present data analysis. Common Strategy Analyst tasks include: Helping research and present data analysis. Extremely organised.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. This list will be of interest to you if you live in Sydney (or you would like to live in Sydney), and: you want to become a strategy consultant, or. Pacific Strategy Partners. Source: Flickr ).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

List of strategy consulting firms in London 2011. in Management Consulting. List of strategy consulting firms in London. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cedar Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Definitions. Helpful Links.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011. in Management Consulting. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong. OC&C Strategy Consultants. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Value Partners Management Consulting. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia 2012. in Management Consulting. THE list of strategy and general business consulting firms is part of the full list of consulting firms in Australia : Tier One – Global. Pacific Strategy Partners. Pacific Strategy Partners. Definitions. Nous Group.

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To be honest, I am not sure if there is a name for the type of chart I describe below, but I call it a “frontier chart” (which is derived from investment portfolio theory from finance). Consider using frontier charts and thinking about platform strategies (the latter which may be topic for another post).

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Effective Managers

MARCH 10, 2024

In the world of consulting, a distinction is often overlooked: the difference between the industry at large and the profession of management consulting. In this article, we explore this distinction, the role of ISO 20700 as a gateway to the profession, and how it paves the way towards certification as a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Business schools must adapt their curricula in response to the increasing demand for professionals skilled in sustainability and climate change management. The curriculum should foster a common language between disciplines, such as sustainability and accounting, and include hands-on experiential learning.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

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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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2019

Asset managers are institutions that ‘manage money’ on behalf of certain beneficiaries. Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. Major traditional asset managers include: Blackrock. Affiliated Managers.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 19, 2024

The GMAT is a necessary hurdle that individuals who aspire to pursue an MBA or a graduate degree in finance need to overcome in order to gain admission to a top school. Understand strategies for approaching different question types. Effective time management is crucial during the GMAT.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 7, 2017

When Strategy Aligns Behavior. A clear, well understood strategy aligns employee behavior within the priorities of the business. When Strategy Does Not Align Behavior. Just think what can happen when the strategy is unclear, unsupported or too far-fetched. Legal and finance stalling sales with pricing and term issues.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In their work on purpose activation with more than 150 firms, the authors have developed three strategies to help employees maintain that connection. The second strategy is to reframe your measures of success. Think about the difference between “number of accounts added” and “number of people we are helping to improve their finances.”

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IMC USA

MAY 29, 2018

May 29, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces that its 2018 annual international consulting conference, “Consult-Con 2018: Fearless Consulting in Disruptive Times” ( www.imcusaconference.org ), takes place on October 5-7, 2018 , at the San Diego Marriott Mission Hills in San Diego, California. . —

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Granite Leadership Strategies

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Designing a winning price in Government contracting involves quite a concentrated effort to compose the technical strategy as well as the strategy to get to that right price. The technical, management, past performance, and personnel must score well, or the price will not even matter.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

It was a very interesting experience, so in this post I will share what I learned, as well as talk about the role played by management consulting firms. At the same time, management consultants will generally be brought in to look at the viability of the business, from a strategic and operational perspective. Image: Pexels.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

this legislation covers finance and retirement-related considerations. employers, advisors, platforms, systems providers, investment managers). We talked about the recently passed Secure Act 2.0 and potential behavioral implications and impacts on the ecosystem and players. For those unfamiliar with Secure Act 2.0,

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. The decision was easier for me than for most people. 2) Heavy team interaction.

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 22, 2019

When it comes to managing your career, you need to be aware of your own weaknesses. If you’re a startup CEO that’s poor at finance, you have the option of hiring someone that’s really good at what you’re bad at. For example, I’m not great at managing details. What’s your strategy for dealing with them?

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