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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. directly integrated with core financials?

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PARADE Method

CaseInterview.com

A source of irritation for many interviewers is when the candidate says, " We faced a $10 million drop in sales, and we fixed this by landing three new clients for $3.3 Did you find and close all $10 million in sales? Did you just show up at the sales meeting? Did you cheer the sales team on from the sidelines?

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

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. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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Buying a Business in a Competitive Marketplace, how to Separate Yourself from the Pack?

Martinka Consulting

John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest business brokerage firm, have collaboratively completed a significant number of transactions involving the purchase & sale of privately held companies, including one already in 2017.

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Attended vs. Unattended RPA: It Doesn’t Need to be an Either-Or

1 to 1

RPA lets associates focus on more worthwhile tasks: improving customer experience , driving bottom-line results, and reducing turnaround time – all with the capability of completing processes and requests around the clock and eliminating human error. Well thought out business process automation benefits the entire organization.

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The consulting case study: What you need to know

freshminds

Investment banking case studies are a lot more quantitative and tend to focus on reading financial statements and based on a corporate finance deal e.g. a company going public on the stock market. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. However, US-based clients still account for the vast majority (around 75%) of sales. Office Locations.