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About David Tang

David Tang is an entrepreneur and management consultant. His current focus is Flevy, the marketplace for business best practices (e.g. frameworks & methodologies, presentation templates, financial models). Prior to Flevy, David worked as a management consultant for 8 years. His consulting experience spans corporate strategy, marketing, operations, change management, and IT; both domestic and international (EMEA + APAC). Industries served include Media & Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consumer Products/Retail, High-Tech, Life Sciences, and Business Services. You can connect with David here on LinkedIn.

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Creating PowerPoint slides can be a very time consuming process.  When I first started working in consulting, some slides would take me several hours to create.  Hundreds of slides later, I can produce the same quality and complexity of slides in a matter of minutes. How do we become much more productive?  Partly, it’s just […]

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Establish Yourself as an Industry Thought Leader

We are looking for business professionals like yourself to guest blog on Flevy. Your article will be syndicated to major news sites, such as CNN, Time, and Reuters. This is a great way to market yourself or your firm as a thought leader.  Please email David (dave@flevy.com) for more details.

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Craft a Successful Strategy for Emerging Markets

As the US and European economies remain teetering on the edge of uncertainty, we are seeing tremendous growth in the emerging markets.  Plus, these emerging markets are almost unfathomable in size.  Take Beijing, as an example.  The population of this one city—not even the largest in China—is more than double that of the populations of […]

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