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Data Scientists and Justin Trudeau: 5 amazingly common things between the Canadian PM and data scientists 

If you are not as cynical about Big Data as this grumpy cat, you’ll agree that Canada’s new leader  and Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau has some things strikingly similar to the data scientists. Here are the 5 things in no particular order. 1. Teaching What comes to your mind when you think of a teacher? A caring, […]

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Startup Pitch Ideas

Startup pitch: 3 things you need to nail down before presenting to Investors

Recently, we held a one-on-one with Asjad Yahya, Director @ Shuaa Capital psc, Investment Banker & Angel Investor, Dubai. The session was held at Allied Consultants head office. The chat revolved around the most important things that start-up founders should consider when pitching their idea to Angel & Venture Capital investors. Watch the video and […]

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Hadoop Ecosystem helps a multinational automobile manufacturer in rapid soft-prototyping [Case Study]

Customer Background Customer Profile: German multinational automotive manufacturer Country of Deployment: Germany Industry: High-tech. Automobile Manufacturing Challenge The automotive company planned to execute the soft-prototyping of all the automobile models that it produced throughout its globally located factories. A major challenge was designing the simulation process of the whole manufacturing process of the automobile based […]

Awareness Entreprenuer (Incubator) IT PM Management Consultants

Building a sense of ownership in consulting teams

The IT consulting space (and in professional services in general) companies rely heavily on the consultants that represent them with a particular client. You are only as good as your consultant is on that given day. One key requirement in that is having the consultant take ownership of work. This means owning the client’s problems […]

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Things they don’t tell IT sales people

Most people in the IT Services Sales industry are not intimately aware of the value of their work to their consulting firms.  Its no surprise then that most are under-compensated or sell themselves short. Here are a few things that they won’t normally tell you (or things they do tell that aren’t entirely true) 1. […]