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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Human Resources Oversees Training. Don't base the training decisions on 'apples to oranges' comparisons. These pointers are suggested in budgeting for and pricing services : Budget for training at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10% of gross sales.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Human resources management. Academic, research.

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AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants

Harvard Business Review

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a new partnership between UBS Wealth Management and Amazon allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions. Almost all that advice is high cost and human-based. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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We Can’t Talk About Inequality Without Talking About Talent

Harvard Business Review

To be fair, macroeconomists don’t view human resources as completely generic “labor.” The real economy is the one in which real companies, individuals and governments buy and sell real things for real prices. Before the price drop, I owned a set of assets. I see things a bit differently. I am no poorer.

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