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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Although it started as a tiny group, paling in comparison to the bohemoth revenues of the firm’s hardware sales, this group is now known as IBM Global Services (IGS) which is responsible for 50% of IBM’s revenue globally. These services focused on business management and information technology. Finance Risk.

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Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM KORN FERRY

Harvard Business

With unemployment rates in most developed nations at the lowest levels since the Great Recession, and with new skill sets required to keep pace with head-spinning technological advances, it’s no surprise the talent acquisition environment is incredibly competitive. Five years ago, compensation (i.e.,

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Deflation Will Return: Europe First, Then US; Global Supply Arbitrage

MishTalk

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. The discrepancy between the household survey and the establishment survey is 65,000 jobs a month. percent this year, the slowest since 1990, a Bloomberg survey of economists signals.

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Your Biggest Cybersecurity Weakness Is Your Phone

Harvard Business

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Our previous survey work at Tech Pro Research found that only 12% of companies have been hit by a mobile security breach.

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The C-Suite and IT Need to Get on the Same Page on Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

A recently published global survey of C-Suite level executives and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) revealed a large gap in assessments of cyber threats, costs and areas of responsibilities. Among the most significant disconnects: 80% of the executives surveyed in the U.S. ITDMs estimated the average cost of a cyber breach at $27.2

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How to Hire with Algorithms

Harvard Business

Sales organizations are trying to predict which sales associates will successfully close deals. Similarly, algorithms have the potential to improve hiring and promotion decisions in areas ranging from sales teams to teachers to police. School districts are trying to predict which teachers will bring a classroom to life.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Booz Surveys; Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton; and more. Information Technology. With the large government consulting portfolio as the core for Booz, the firm started with long legacy recurring relationships – which means less sales time (with 0 revenue) and more funded project utilization. Organization and Change.