The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That's a powerful pitch, given that large investments in AI often have unclear and uncertain returns on investment. Key to IBM's AI growth is its consulting business. Those consulting contracts can then drum up business for IBM's various software businesses, including its watsonx AI platform.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And I'd like to acknowledge the work of our finance team for developing methods to track the retail industry standard metric gross margin return on investment, commonly known as GMROI, down to the category level for our own internal use. And as Ken noted, we are addressing other opportunities called out by a consulting partner.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

Tim is a passionate serial entrepreneur who also owns a software startup, a consulting firm, and a portfolio of real estate. In some ways, buying an existing business can be less risky than starting your own -- and can still deliver significant return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Microsoft recently released analytics tools to help customers measure their return on investment (ROI) related to AI spending, removing one of the biggest stumbling blocks related to AI adoption. trillion over the coming decade, according to global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. trillion and $4.4

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

While watsonx is a powerful platform, the secret to IBM's AI strategy is its consulting arm. Around 80% of IBM's AI-related bookings have been consulting signings, a strong indication that there's booming demand for AI implementation and related services.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Through its software, hardware, and consulting segments, IBM helps enterprise customers increase productivity and decrease costs through its broad cloud and AI offerings. In an uncertain economy, enterprise customers want projects that can deliver significant returns on investment. Since that deal, IBM's strategy has shifted.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Lifecycle services: Consulting, professional services (engineered-to-order solutions), cybersecurity, and asset management. An excellent way to quantitatively answer this question is to compare its return on invested capital (ROIC) to its peer group, as historically, companies with a higher ROIC have tended to perform better over time.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

trillion by 2032, according to Acumen Research and Consulting. Paying a membership fee incentivizes people to maximize their return on investment by shopping at Costco -- and boosting their savings by taking advantage of its low prices -- as much as possible. Here, too, Microsoft stands to benefit.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

According to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), asset tokenization could be a $16 trillion market opportunity by 2030. That's a tenfold return on investment in just over a year! So the big question becomes: Which cryptocurrencies are going to be at the center of that trend? Where does Chainlink fit in your portfolio?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

That's a 25x return on investment in just over a year. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) projects this could be a $16 trillion market opportunity by 2030, and for good reason. Since Chainlink was helping to power this transformation, it's no wonder the token's price soared into the stratosphere.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2024

Aon Aon is a professional services and management consulting company. It operates in industries like risk management, human resource consulting, and insurance brokerage. In fact, it's the largest insurance broker in the world. Aon's stock took a tumble in December, largely because of the 6% drop it had on Dec. billion in Aon stock).

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As an impact investor, we deliver substantial returns on investment – our first exit delivered a remarkable fivefold return on the initial investment – while simultaneously contributing to a healthy planet, as well as fair, inclusive and resilient societies.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 5, 2024

The consulting firm said in its 13th annual Global Healthcare Private Equity report that biopharma captured the bulk of dealmaking momentum, attributing for 48 percent of global deal value, including six deals in excess of $2 billion. It is also noted that sales in the GLP-1 class of medications surged in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Meanwhile, VAS also provides its clients with insights, consulting, merchant loyalty, and marketing services using the company's immense transactional data. Best yet for investors, Mastercard has four traits that are hallmarks of long-term outperformance: Its return on invested capital (ROIC) of 49% is the 15th highest in the S&P 500 index.

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Steve Sanduski

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Ken is also the Founder and CEO of Age Wave , an acclaimed think tank and consultancy focused on the social and business implications and opportunities of global aging and rising longevity. In a Nutshell: In their youth, the baby boomer generation bucked just about every established social, political, and economic trend.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

Ricky Mulvey: They're looking for that really not quick, but measurable return on investment. Ricky Mulvey: This is just an average out from a media consultancy study. On big trend, the media consultancy group M expects total worldwide ad revenue spend to surpass $1 trillion in 2025. Ricky Mulvey: Maybe.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2024

One is that companies of this size, are pretty good at understanding where they can get a return on investment. Some companies are making decisions because they don't want to get left behind, even though they haven't really pinned down the return on investment. It also consults Google. There's a Fomo case here.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And we are working to better connect and streamline the organization to improve operational discipline and efficiency while retooling certain go-to-market functions to focus on areas with the strongest return on investment. For the fourth quarter fiscal 2025, we expect revenue in the range of $422 million to $427 million.

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Hedgestone

JUNE 26, 2023

Financial metrics include: Return on Investment (ROI): ROI measures the financial return of an IT investment. ROI is calculated by dividing the net profit of an investment by its cost. A positive ROI indicates that the investment is profitable.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

It also has a business consulting arm. But Robert Half, maybe a little old-school in a day and age where so much of consulting is being challenged by AI and so much of hiring takes place online through different types of mediums, from LinkedIn to just person-to-person outreach.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 28, 2024

Results in from consulting firm Accenture. Obviously, it's not a company that has the Lollapalooza expectations that a company like Nvidia does, but they have transformed themselves from a straight consulting company to being a really sneakily powerful AI-driven company. I'm happy to keep hanging onto it. Market didn't seem to mind.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

They're looked on as very consultative partner with the Big Cloud hyperscalers with enterprise businesses, and they bring a lot of tech to the table. With these last couple of acquisitions, it's starting to speak that same language about cost and opportunity and return on investment. Before this year, AMD wasn't able to make it.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Enterprises are looking to Zeta to improve productivity, deliver personalization at scale, and develop marketing programs with a measurable and superior return on investment. First, we're seeing increased enrollment and budgetary responsibility by the CTO in close consultation with the CMO. This is core to our value proposition.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

And we believe we'll keep growing going forward as we enhance the return on investment to advertisers and therefore, enhance what advertisers are willing to spend with us. And yes, the overall economy is uncertain, but it has been uncertain for the past couple of years. Kenneth Fong -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst That's very clear.

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Insight Partners

AUGUST 15, 2024

But I wasn’t ready to found a company straight out of college, so I started building a career in consultancy, and later in the corporate world.” “I ” “When I first met Bianca, Aily had no outside investment, yet it had achieved incredible scale,” says Alexandra Lundin , vice president at Insight Partners.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

Finally, wealth solutions delivered 8% organic revenue growth in Q4, driven by continued strong demand for pension risk transfer consulting, regulatory work from policy changes across the U.K. It's a return on invested capital, cash-on-cash return. and EMEA, and new clients' market performance in NFP.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Customers are gravitating to Q, and we already see companies like Brightcove, Bridge Telecom, Datadog, GitLab, GoDaddy, National Australia Bank, NCS, Netsmart, Slalom, Smartsheet, Sun Life, Tata Consultancy Services, Toyota, and Wiz using Q, and we've only been in beta until today. We create capacity very carefully for our customers.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This is typically a top one, two or three topic with clients, with brokers, with consultants and with others in the market. We also look at capital efficiency, return on invested capital on a relative basis in terms of assessing it. As we all spend a significant amount of time in the market, we're a field-based organization.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To obtain information on factors that may lead to results different from those forecast by Vale, please consult the reports Vale files with the U.S. This resulted in higher realized iron ore premiums, but more importantly, higher margins and returns on invested capital.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

JUNE 1, 2023

Use data analytics to measure the performance of each channel and invest resources into the ones that yield the highest return on investment (ROI). Schedule your free consultation today to explore how our expertise can accelerate your success. This can be in the form of blog posts, videos, podcasts, webinars, or courses.

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Hedgestone

JULY 10, 2023

The capitalization rate is determined by dividing the expected rate of return on investment by the risk-free rate of return. The expected rate of return is typically between 20-30%, and the risk-free rate of return is the rate of return on a risk-free investment like a U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Zeta recently commissioned a study with Forrester Consulting that revealed almost half of marketers do not trust the reliability of their data due to fragmented tools and technologies.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

However, to comply with their constrained legislative mandates to achieve direct financial returns on investments, they are cornered into deploying the hard-earned capital of Canadians all around the world. There are not enough investments of scale available in Canada to allow such big funds to hit their investment targets.)

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Fortune Financial

MAY 4, 2023

It gives investors exposure to many key players and could be a useful way to invest in the market without having to conduct analysis on individuals, according to Bankrate. 3D Printing Has Immediate Impacts On Supply Chain Overall, investing in 3D printing can be a smart move for those interested in technology and innovation.

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Hedgestone

JULY 10, 2023

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Farmland and crops have proven throughout history to be stable investments due to the consistent demand. Here are just a few potential benefits to investing in farmland: Potential for above-average return on investment. Please consult with a qualified professional for this type of advice.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

And it is mainly -- or to large extent, it's related to people costs, both employees but also consultants that we have in the group. At the same time, the industry has a problem with return on investments. Lars Sandstrom -- Chief Financial Officer I think I cannot give you a split between COGS and opex there.

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