Tom Spencer

MAY 23, 2021

As someone currently in management consulting who has previously done tech sales for a major software company, I was amused by Martin Keller’s article championing tech sales (sometimes known as consultative or customer success driven sales) over management consulting. Transition Opportunities. Work-Life Balance. Job Stability.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. However, it does indicate the industry’s optimism. Traditional carmakers are desperately trying to catch up with tech companies who have had a head start in developing driverless tech.

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Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

We recently worked with a high-growth medical device company that makes sophisticated hardware and software systems. To remain the market leader, the company needed to produce highly innovative client-driven solutions, while at the same time maintaining product excellence. This leader directly manages only a small number of people.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2018

When we think of innovation we think of the technology industry, don’t we? Or perhaps the company that started SaaS (Software as a Service), which has permeated into way too many industries and businesses. Here’s an interesting non-tech industry innovation taking place in Washington (and I’m sure other states).

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The cloud – which refers to storing, managing, and processing data via a network of remote servers instead of locally on a server or personal computer – is quickly becoming a critical source for innovation. Without a robust cloud strategy, an organization’s pace and breadth of innovation is likely to be hampered.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. Contrary to popular perception, these superstar firms are not just Silicon Valley tech giants. and Chinese tech firms. Apexphotos/Getty Images. Wider dynamics may be at play.

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Confessions of a Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

We’ve been oversold on ‘tech’ so many times that it’s hard not to be skeptical. We all need to demonstrate curiosity and embrace innovation as a personal mission – rather than a corporate slogan. In embracing new technology, avoid vanity innovations. And it takes time to figure that out. It’s a good point.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

Speaking about the risk-bearing events affecting aerospace engineering projects, we can divide them into three groups: project management, engineering risks, and those that are typical for the aerospace and defense industry. Risks specific for the aerospace and defense industry. Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. See Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.) Pregnancy to explain the indivisibleness of some work. But these metaphors no longer serve us.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

Here at MC, we’ve been absolutely thrilled to launch our new series and bring you some juicy insights into the Top 10 Consulting firms in every major consulting city and region around the world. This week, we continue with sunny – and windy – San Francisco. The region has 3 major cities: San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 14, 2016

Staying true to the original vision, Amazon has gone on to become a global force, market disruptor, major innovator, and a helluva lot more than just an online bookstore. However, you’ll be more than richly rewarded with above industry average compensation and benefits. ———— History & Culture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. JEWEL SAMAD/Staff/Getty Images.

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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. BearingPoint Interview and Culture. Preparing for a BearingPoint interview? KEY STATS FOR BEARINGPOINT. They repurchased $381.3

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2018

To focus on businesses that are closer in spirit to the prototypical high-tech startup, we used a variety of indicators: whether the firm was granted a patent, received VC investment, or operated in an industry that employs a high fraction of STEM workers. These averages, however, hide a large amount of variation across industries.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the present-day dynamic business environment, you should stay on top of all recent trends and be ready to implement innovations in your work. Experienced healthcare professionals will share insights into ensuring effective risk and resource management and timely project delivery thanks to applying project delivery innovations.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2016

Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more. But there is another, equally compelling reason why unicorns are dying: failure to innovate when competitors catch up. Some analysts blame unrealistic valuation while others cite excessive spending.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

Help to increase tech literacy in Washington. This lack of knowledge — despite the millions of dollars that the tech industry spent on lobbying Washington in 2017 — shows that technology literacy among lawmakers still needs to be improved. Digital Service , and the Presidential Innovation Fellows.

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freshminds

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In a recent report, Deloitte has predicted that the following eight technology trends are set to change the way businesses will engage with their customers, how work gets done and how markets and industries will change over the next 18-24 months. So let's deconstruct the Tech trends of 2015. 1) Dimensional Marketing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. The change will become invisible. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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SkillQuo

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Over the past few years, industries from enterprise IT to financial services have become more consumer-centric. Over the past few years, industries from enterprise IT to financial services have become more consumer-centric. Article Credit: CB Insights. Companies are positioning themselves to take advantage of this shift.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. In the 1980s and 1990s, Blockbuster modernized the movie rental business. Instead, he argues, the U.S. Power to protect money.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. At the end of the 19th century, New York City stank. — of manure a month.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. That’s the question that has dogged the company from the beginning, inspiring heated debate among Wall Street analysts, fanatical customers, and tech-related online communities. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide. ’” he said recently.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Eminent industry leaders worry that the biggest risk tied to artificial intelligence is the militaristic downfall of humanity. The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations. CSA Images/Printstock Collection/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

By doing so, they are testing the limits of the potential power of repurposing online retail innovations that consumers have become accustomed to in varied industries and potentially revamping healthcare in the process. Healthcare innovations like these raise intriguing possibilities.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. The tech industry joined the diversity movement to diversify their workforces far later, after being scrutinized for its stark lack of gender and ethnic diversity.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

In the traditional media industry, some outlets differentiate themselves through quality, but social media hasn’t gotten there yet — there is no “ New York Times of social media.” The most common approaches are to specialize in either high-quality information, or to specialize in deep, emotional relationships.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Combined with other Industry 4.0 In today’s changing and uncertain world, aerospace engineering companies are seeking the ways to design and develop new products faster and with less cost. Let’s get started. . Digitalization in Aerospace Engineering: General Overview . Digital technologies used in aerospace engineering . Digital twin.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

The New York Times recently published a fascinating overview of creativity programs and innovation spaces on college campuses across the country. It described a unique living-working space at the University of Utah called Lassonde Studios , where students embrace the 24/7 innovation lifestyle of geeks in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

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