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What is consulting?

Tom Spencer

When people think of consultants, they tend to visualize professionally suited employees, degrees from the best schools, high pay-checks and fancy travel stories. Operations Consultants: Operations consultants are consultants who help clients improve the performance of their operations.

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Location, Location: Choosing the Right Office for You

Tom Spencer

As for management consulting, specialties might include strategy, supply chain, or operations. This information will tell you whether you will be able to complete your job at one office, or if you will need to spend time traveling to other locations on a routine basis. In consulting just as in real estate, location is crucial.

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100 Small Business Ideas To Get You Started

Business Consulting Agency

Working from home, just about anybody can operate a small business with an Internet connection and computer. Travel Consultant. Real Estate Sales Consultant. These days, it is easier than ever to start a small business. People of all ages desire to be entrepreneurs. It can be a desire to make more money. Tax Preparation.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Combining their industry experience, the pair were forerunners in what became a specialty area in professional services: turnaround management, corporate restructuring and operational performance improvement for companies and stakeholders. Real Estate. Automotive and Suppliers. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. 77 hours compared to.85

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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What CEOs Get Wrong About Activist Investors

Harvard Business

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Other activists have expertise in development and commercial real estate. Many don’t have much operational experience; we certainly didn’t. Or do they have valuable operational insights?