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Sample Consulting Case Questions

Tom Spencer

How should it price this product? The company started making handheld wireless devices in 1999 and gained substantial market share in the initial smart phone market prior to the release of the iPhone in 2007. Operations. It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. Pricing Strategy.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

This isn’t all that surprising given the level of innovation activity in these sectors, but directors operating in similarly disrupted sectors should take note. Just over one-fifth (22%) of boards operating in the IT and telecom industry sought tech expertise when filling their most recent board seat, higher than in any other industry.

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What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services

Harvard Business

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

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The Science of Continuous Improvement

Confessions of a Consultant

The province is famous as the site for the 1 st transatlantic wireless communication; the 1 st transatlantic flight; the 1 st responders to the Titanic’s distress signal – an event which occurred about 500 miles off their coastline. She now meets clients in her car. With a direct (4.5 But the ‘no show’ rate was as high as 50%.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

Altman Vilandrie is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses pretty exclusively on telecom, media and tech (TMT), so it does a lot of work with internet service providers, wireless providers, mobile manufacturers, and also a lot of work in the online advertising and media side of things as well. Okay, great. So that was one.

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Even Life-Saving Innovations Don’t Sell Themselves

Harvard Business

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The Agile Software Development track will be interesting for Scrum masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project and product managers, and everyone involved in product delivery. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.