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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Strategy Consultants: Within management consulting, Strategy Consultants operate at the highest level of the consultancy market, focusing on strategic topics like corporate and organizational strategy, economic policy, government policy and functional strategy. Which cities should it prioritize? Conclusion.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

The chances are that the global economy, weighted by nominal GDP at current exchange rates, will grow at 2 percent Globalization, turbo-powered by information technology, has cut short the feedback loop between demand stimulus and supply response. Emerging economies will likely remain in low gear.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

Even in this new information age, not everything requires the razzle-dazzle of AI. But companies and government agencies are starting to find plenty of places where knowledge-based tools can make a huge difference. It must have a formal (and nuanced) governance structure. Find the right places to use it.

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How Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids

Harvard Business

By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. This requires investments in data infrastructure and health information technology to measure real-time opioid prescribing patterns. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In addition to its private clients, Peat Marwick’s growth was also fueled by the government contracts it won. Technology Innovation. Information Technology. Diversity Advisory Board Scorecard – Developed to set meaningful diversity metrics for the firm. Business Issues: Growth. Operating Effectiveness.