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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

BCG’s new home, 10 Hudson Yards, is like a city within a city and is considered the largest real estate deal in US history (jaw drop!). The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Services offered include: complexity management, enterprise transformation, operations, procurement solutions, strategic information technology, strategy and sustainability. Kearney’s mission is to help the world’s leading corporations gain and sustain a competitive advantage, and to achieve profound, tangible results for its clients.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Information Technology. Real Estate. Retail & Consumer Products. Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) Transportation. In this way, cross office politics can affect morale and productivity. Financial Institutions. Government & Public Contracts. Healthcare & Life Sciences.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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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. That there is no childcare center. Everything else was secondary.”

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Why Trump Doesn’t Tweet About Automation

Harvard Business

Trump knows virtually nothing about technology — other than a smartphone, he doesn’t use it much. And the industries he’s worked in — construction, real estate, hotels, and resorts — are among the least sophisticated in their use of information technology.