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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

He began his career in sales and sales management with a division of a Fortune 500 company in the aerospace and defense industry. a full-service engineering and information technology staffing company, helping to grow the business to eight figures in sales and over 200 employees, he successfully exited the business in January 2010.

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Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

Harvard Business

health care system. Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. Health systems were reluctant to share what data existed, seeing it as a valuable proprietary asset. It could herald truly disruptive change in the U.S.

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Business Ecosystems: Building Stronger Connections

Tom Spencer

If you are an iPhone user, can you imagine moving to a mobile phone than runs on an Android operating system? Getting used to the new operating system would take weeks. Ecosystems bolster consumer loyalty to an unprecedented degree, which makes it much harder for competitors to induce customers to switch products. Not likely.

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Limit Cyberattacks with a System-Wide Safe Mode

Harvard Business

The main reason they can harm companies to such a staggering degree is that today’s cybersecurity systems use centralized monitoring, with little beyond their main firewalls to protect the rest of an organization. Today’s cybersecurity systems have been built to detect previously identified malicious codes and malware.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.” As I speak with industry executives, a common refrain is “I’ve done all the easy stuff.”

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Management consulting is an industry that offers assistance with this kind of high-level decision-making and problem-solving. Consultants also have extensive knowledge in particular industries or topics. There’s an article in Bloomberg Business Week that outlines how the strategy consulting industry began.