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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

But building an internal consulting group is an unprecedented endeavor for many companies, and because best practices have yet to spread widely, internal consulting groups vary greatly in how they operate and the business impacts they are able to achieve. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project. Win on merit.

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The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made

Harvard Business Review

He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I The inventions, Antonio Regalado writes in Technology Review , range from automated cars to balloon-based data networks to images of keypads that can be projected onto a user''s hand. "They said, ''This kid is a fad.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Why Your Team Needs Rookies

Harvard Business Review

Consider science and technology, fields in which information is doubling every nine months and decaying at a rate of 30% a year , thereby rendering as much as 85% of a person’s technical knowledge irrelevant in five years’ time.

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Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. Arab inventors show some technological specialization in information and communication technologies.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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