"Chrysler went for the outrageous--and it worked, " says Ronald Harbour, president of Harbour Consulting, a manufacturing consulting firm.
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The polled executives represent almost every industry including consulting, manufacturing, advertising, architecture, accounting and education, and companies and institutions like Accenture, ArcelorMittal, Mattel, Mars, Novo Nordisk, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, Sodexo, and the University of Denver.
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Wohlers Associates, a consulting firm that tracks additive manufacturing, provided me with a media copy of their 2012 State of the Industry report this past spring, will run its own conference alongside EuroMold, focused on metal additive manufacturing, with experts from around the world.
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They praise Andersen Consulting for introducing Harley-Davidson to Japanese manufacturing practices.
What the Boston Consulting Group calls a "reallocation of global manufacturing" is shifting production away from expensive East Asia and Europe and toward these lower-cost locales.
But the skills gap in the manufacturing sector has actually been overstated, according to the Boston Consulting Group.
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Among the measures, the drugmaker said it has hired an independent pharmaceutical consulting firm to identify corrective actions to improve quality and manufacturing systems at its Fort Washington facility.
If you combine this with news from a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, U.S. manufacturing and reshoring, the sluggish economy might finally get moving.
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Around 30 percent are working in either the accounting or financial sectors with the remainder coming from consulting, media and communications, health care, IT and manufacturing.
She is a significant thought leader and favorite blogger on FastCompany.com and Forbes.com After a successful career as a counselor, Wakeman has spent the past 18 years consulting with some of the biggest companies in industries ranging from manufacturing, banking, government, high-tech, and healthcare, to help them incorporate reality-based concepts into leader and employee training programs.
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Leeds struck out on his own in 1995, ditching a steady paycheck as a planning manager for printermaker Lexmark and opening a consulting shop in Guangzhou, China to help American companies set up manufacturing plants there.
Anna Marie Detert, a director at KPMG Management Consulting, said the improvement was being driven by the private sector, in manufacturing and services, but it was too early to tell whether it was the first sign of real sustainable growth in the jobs market.
Boston Consulting Group detailed in September how energy costs are helping to fuel a resurgence in U.S. manufacturing.
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