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a. If you could invest $X million in the next year (above and beyond our current level of investment) with the goal of improving the competitiveness of the practice and making its future more secure, what would you spend it on? b. If you could improve our competitiveness by changing one aspect of the firmwide management practices and policies (meas
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most significant management variable to be disclosed by the previous analysis is the choice of the mix of projects undertaken, and the implications this has for the (average) project team (i.e., leverage) structure.
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Three start-up firms that support this type of analysis are Quid, based in San Francisco; Recorded Future, based in Boston; and Signals Intelligence Group, based in Israel.
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a. If you could invest $X million in the next year (above and beyond our current level of investment) with the goal of improving the competitiveness of the practice and making its future more secure, what would you spend it on? b. If you could improve our competitiveness by changing one aspect of the firmwide management practices and policies (meas
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are multibillion-dollar revenue companies, what matters is having: (1) the right strategy in the right market, (2) an A management team, and (3) financial discipline. The difference between an A and a B CEO produces an order of magnitude difference in the return.”