Tom Spencer

MARCH 13, 2016

Strategy consultants work with the CEO and senior management to address strategic problems including declining profitability, growth strategy, market entry, product development, or responding to a competitive threat. For more information on the management consulting industry, download our “ Guide to Management Consulting “ ].

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Management Consulted

MARCH 19, 2017

Intuit is a financial software and information technology company that has spent an impressive 13 years on Fortune’s list of the Best Companies To Work For by pledging to “Simplify the Business of Life!” Intuit has also been listed by Fortune as one of “America’s most admired software companies.”

Culture 100

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The benefit of bringing in specialist consultants is that they are likely to have experience solving similar problems and an understanding of industry best practice. Restructuring is a niche service which requires specialized knowledge and industry experience. software development) consultants may represent a cost-effective solution.

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Consulting McKinsey Turnaround Information Technology 68

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The GE conglomerate combined a wide range of industrial businesses under one roof. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Silicon Valley and the rise of information technology.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 9, 2014

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO) is a professional services firm that offers resources to players who are mainly in the healthcare industry. The founder, David Bradley, set out with the lofty mission of solving “any question for any company for any industry.” Industries. Musslewhite), a President (David L.

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Interviews Culture Company Healthcare 147

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, after the ENRON scandal erupted, SOX restructured the consulting industry, and BearingPoint battled to find its own way in the world, the firm struggled with its independence from its Big 4 parent. was still using the old software from KPMG to handle all of their accounting and human resource functions. Information Technology.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. These leaders often head legacy companies that have long histories in physical industries.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Originally founded in 1982 by Dan Luczak as “Forensic Technologies International Ltd., Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. ” In 1993, another of us (Sutherland) faced what seemed like an impossible task: Easel Corporation, a software company, needed to develop a new product to replace its legacy offerings in less than six months.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Because implementing these technologies is a key factor in deciding how to move forward, I’ve combined the cognitive entry points into three categories: “Mostly Buy,” “Some Buy, Some Build,” and “Mostly Build.” Use an existing vendor’s software with cognitive capabilities.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In contrast, industrial giant GE’s stock price has declined by 44 % over the last year, as news emerged about its first losses in last 50 years. Why do investors react negatively to financial statement losses for an industrial firm but disregard such losses for a digital firm?

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QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

In a nutshell, an IT consultant focuses on advising organizations on the best ways to use information technology (IT) to achieve their business goals. Such as: What marketable skills and experience can you offer to your customers? With this technology’s help companies can capture both mindshare and investments.

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Consulting Case Interview Trends System 53

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

McKinsey works internationally in a broad range of industries with large private sector institutions, governments and other non-profit institutions. PJP’s Australian clients come from a diverse range of industries (e.g. It is still unclear what the ultimate impact of the scandal will be on McKinsey’s brand. Nous Group.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 122

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

It can be argued that in many industries substantial numbers of digital applications — for example, online channel to customers and ERP systems — have become so pervasive that they have become mandatory for survival in the industry. The organization currently depends on these investments for success.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

But the scale of the problem means cybersecurity should be a concern for every executive, from HR to Marketing. Understanding the types of attacks that are most likely to affect your industry will enable you to spend smarter and protect your company more effectively. The risk is growing. But your budget isn’t limitless.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. AI of this type is not just a software coding problem; it is a knowledge coding problem.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

My view was that although some manufacturing processes returned, not many jobs came back thanks to robots and software automation. Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States. That view was far too optimistic. Kearney U.S.

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Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 21, 2015

My view was that although some manufacturing processes returned, not many jobs came back thanks to robots and software automation. Industries vulnerable to rising labor costs in China have been successfully relocating to other Asian countries, rather than returning to the United States. That view was far too optimistic. Kearney U.S.

Apparel 28

Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

By the 1990s, IBM had become the go-to provider of enterprise information technology — hardware, software, and systems integration — for large and midsized businesses. IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO) process provides cover for experimental business units targeting embryonic markets.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. Information Technology. Financial Markets.

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IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. Even technology, information technology, you know, they’ve invested in treating that as a tier-one asset.

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Apparel Enterprise Productivity Company 32

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Change Management Management Software Productivity 49

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Across industries and across countries, a small number of “superstar” firms are pulling away from the competition. One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. They’re more productive, as the chart below illustrates.

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Intellectual Property Software Industry Study 29

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. Software-based encryption stands at the heart of e-commerce and other online transactions, nationally and globally. technology firms. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.).

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?

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Advertising Marketing Information Technology Information Technology 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy. What’s Driving Industry Concentration.

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Software Company Industry Policies 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

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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MishTalk

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Hawaii is not even up and running yet due to software glitches. In March, Henry Chao, the chief digital architect for the Obama administration’s new online insurance marketplace, told industry executives that he was deeply worried about the Web site’s debut. It’s an unprecedented experiment in federal information technology.

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Insurance Insurance Software Journal 77

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. They painstakingly record the hardware and software used by millions of firms per year back to 1981.

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Research Data Agile Software 40

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. jobs overall.)

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Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 38

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

There’s a tremendous amount of information and structured data now available to guide treatment, assess outcomes, and measure quality of care. Beyond EHRs, digital health tools — apps, wearable devices, and other hardware and software that measures and monitors health — are becoming common in consumers’ lives.

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