McKinsey breeds Web wunderkinder

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Several former staff members of management consultancy firm McKinsey and Company Inc. are running some of Australia's biggest information technology companies, and that may be due to the skills they learned while at McKinsey. Many staff members of McKinsey are able to accept high levels of risk, a concept important in the Internet corporate environment. Some former employees have become millionaires, such as Jeremy Philips, deputy chairman of ecorp.

Australia, Statistical Data Included, Internet, Thornley, Evan, McKinsey and Company Inc., Riedel, George, Deans, Alison, Dews, Nigel, Twomey, Paul, Philips, Jeremy, Davies, Christa

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Titles, layers...everything goes as a consultancy re-engineers itself

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The Australian business consulting firm Sedgwick Noble Lowndes implemented a major reengineering that included the termination of standard business titles in favor of new titles. The new titles of dean, professor, explorer, captain, builder, rainmaker and sphinx describe the new roles that were created for its 250 employees. The new titles help the company create a history, which is essential to corporate survival.

Reengineering (Management), Sedgwick Noble Lownds

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The Boston Rocket delivers a few home truths

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Management consultant David Maister recommends several strategies for firms to build their businesses. These include motivating staff, hiring a single individual to watch for problems, listening to client feedback and using non-billable hours to network and provide courtesy calls to clients. Maister targets management complacency as the primary roadblock to success.

Business enterprises, Maister, David

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