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  2. BearingPoint - Wikipedia

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    On 31 January 2000, KPMG formally spun off the consulting unit as KPMG Consulting, LLC. On 8 February 2001, the company went public on the NASDAQ market at $18 a share under the ticker "KCIN." Over the next year and a half, the company acquired some of KPMG's country consulting practices, plus country practices and hiring from Arthur Andersen ...

  3. Management consulting - Wikipedia

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    Management consulting could be classified into two categories: [citation needed] General management consulting, which concerns strategy, corporate finance, organization, environmental social and corporate governance, risk and compliance, and so forth. It entails questions that are relevant to the entirety of the client organization as a whole ...

  4. Reference dependence - Wikipedia

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    Reference dependence studies are commonly critiqued on the context in which they provoke responses and to the accuracies in measuring highly malleable reference points. [5] Reference points that appear to be random in nature can also influence the decision of the individual choice. [6] Ariely et al. (2003) were able to show that when a random ...

  5. Consulting firm - Wikipedia

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    A consulting firm or simply consultancy is a professional service firm that provides expertise and specialised labour for a fee, through the use of consultants.Consulting firms may have one employee or thousands; they may consult in a broad range of domains, for example, management, engineering, and so on.

  6. Construction surveying - Wikipedia

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    A point of beginning is established at the southwest cross grid, e.g. [N1000.000,E3000.000]. The grids are added together heading north and east to make each line its own ordinate. Equipment and techniques used in construction surveying

  7. Benchmark (surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The term is generally applied to any item used to mark a point as an elevation reference. Frequently, bronze or aluminum disks are set in stone or concrete, or on rods driven deeply into the earth to provide a stable elevation point. If an elevation is marked on a map, but there is no physical mark on the ground, it is a spot height.

  8. Geodetic control network - Wikipedia

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    A geodetic control network consists of stable, identifiable points with published datum values derived from observations that tie the points together. [ 1 ] Classically, a control is divided into horizontal (X-Y) and vertical (Z) controls (components of the control), however with the advent of satellite navigation systems, GPS in particular ...

  9. Consultant - Wikipedia

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    According to Institute of Management Consultants USA, "The value of a consultant [as compared to a subject-matter expert (SME)] [11] [12] [13] is to be able to correctly diagnose and effectively transform an often ill-defined problem and apply information, resources and processes to create a workable and usable solution.