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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. Companies do not prepare employees to work well as a team. You must act.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. Less than 25% of employees have attended a company sponsored training program in the last five years. Companies do not prepare employees to work well as a team. You must act.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Alvarez & Marsal Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. Turnaround and Restructuring. Well, Sean, thanks for asking so nicely – today is your lucky day! Practice Areas.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

For example, a company that needs to update its computer systems might seek advice from IT consultants. Turnarounds. A firm may find this appealing because implementation may be a dedicated project unrelated to the firm’s ongoing operations. Below we outline five (5) reasons why organisations engage consulting firms.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE. companies by Fortune Magazine.