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‘Uberization’ of consulting: A major disruption or merely hype?

Tom Spencer

This has promoted the use of virtual meeting spaces which are quickly eliminating the need for big fancy meeting rooms and the high costs associated with business travel. Some of these top consulting firms also have strong alumni networks in industry, finance, law and government. Success of crowdsourcing as a business model.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Government. Travel and Transportation. Travel to client locations are required. Corporate Governance. The cases usually take ~15 minutes to complete and the interviewers love it if you include some form of technology implementation into your recommendation. Chemicals and Petroleum. Communications.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

In fact, we were actually engaged not in a technology-implementation program but in a huge change-management initiative. Understanding that people affected by government policy want to be heard, I took every meeting I could with representatives of health care stakeholders, especially physicians and hospitals.

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