Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds. Catalyst for Change. Cost Effective Solution.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Here are my top suspects: China and other countries following the Chinese strategy. Although China is the most important example of this strategy today, the idea is not new.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2017

Along with the hardware advances, the need to store and process big data in new ways led to a whole constellation of open source software, such as Hadoop and scripting languages. The process of acquiring and using open source software is a major change in itself for established businesses. Related Video. </span> Save.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Though these technologies can seem daunting, the good news is that getting started with cognitive technologies is getting easier all the time. Many vendors have jumped into the field, and their offerings provide options for any company wanting to make their processes or products smarter. ” Mostly Buy. ” Mostly Buy.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Despite efforts among software vendors to create self-service tools for data preparation , this proportion of work is likely to stay the same for the foreseeable future, for a couple of reasons. Software applications are written at one point in time, for a particular group in the company. Insight Center. Structural. Vendor lock-in.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leading organizations are more likely to have a comprehensive data acquisition strategy and differentiate themselves from competitors based on their data platform. Ecolab’s products and services help major refineries, petrochemical plants, and manufacturing facilities process and save water in their operations.

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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. manufacturing renaissance,” marked by the “reshoring” of production and the growing competitiveness challenges of many foreign nations vis-à-vis the United States. That view was far too optimistic.

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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. manufacturing renaissance,” marked by the “reshoring” of production and the growing competitiveness challenges of many foreign nations vis-à-vis the United States. That view was far too optimistic.

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Apparel Chemicals Trends Report 28

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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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

In the past decade, consumers have shifted from worrying about sharing personal financial information when shopping on the internet to embracing online retailers’ recommendations for them. No strategy is static. That is because the best online retailers offer customers a curated and highly personalized shopping experience.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. Litigation technology. E-discovery software provider. Strategy Consulting & Research. Technology. E-discovery Software & Services. Industries.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

For an industrial company dealing with physical assets and goods, the balance sheet presents a reasonable picture of productive assets and the income statement provides a reasonable approximation of expenses required to create shareholder value. Many digital companies have no physical products and have no inventory to report.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together. But now what people are saying is, “I cannot execute the business strategy of the company.” They will design a product faster.

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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. During 1992 and 1993, IBM U.K.,

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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. That there is no childcare center. Everything else was secondary.” Not an open plan.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. The team must develop collaboration strategies to meet these goals, prioritize the needs of complex patients, and tailor interventions to the specific needs of different subgroups.

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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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