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What is the Professional Services Industry All About?

Progressus

They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients. And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. That said, professional services firms have some important things in common.

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Could Your Business Use an Advisory Board?

IMC USA

Advisory boards focus on "big picture” issues--such as compensation, market strategy, and succession planning--rather than day-to-day operational difficulties. But today, even successful small businesses face increasing technological and logistical challenges, making advisory boards a more widely accepted strategy.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

No strategy is static. At the less-expensive end is a knowledge-based approach that organizes data and language into highly malleable and helpful blocks of information. But companies and government agencies are starting to find plenty of places where knowledge-based tools can make a huge difference. Insight Center.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

The linked register information is provided by the German Federal Employment Agency and stems from mandatory notifications of the employing firms to the German social insurance authorities. We suspect the costs of skill diversity are higher within the founding team, which has to agree on a joint strategy, than between founders and employees.