Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

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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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Do I even need to tell you that the company is struggling with both productivity and quality? I’ve been working with this company to improve performance on the shop floor, but progress has been incremental. And until management shows that they care about the workers, the workers won’t care about the products.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

They are known for doing high-level assessments of their clients’ business situation, and providing strategies to increase profit or growth by entering new markets, launching new products, or making acquisitions. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Image: Pexels.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

This book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Boost HR and company productivity and performance with metrics that matter. Realistic and Actionable.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” Now it’s less than 15 years.

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Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

You may have decided to change companies but once again you were assigned to a team. Now you are engaged in building a company. He and his Team have worked with hundreds of thousands of individuals, as well as thousands of companies from small yoga studios to Fortune 500 Companies helping them get clear, stand out and play bigger.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 11, 2014

I like to say (especially to business buyers with stars in their eyes) that, “turnarounds make headlines because they are rare.” Systems in place that increase productivity and can be implemented by numerous people (no dependency on one tech person, one machine operator, etc.).

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

A large American beverage company acquired a fruit juice company for $350 million five years ago with the goal to increase revenues tenfold. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. A South Korean company is acquiring a U.S. How should it price this product?

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Often, they must play all eight roles to some degree.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

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.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

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. You build your way up to those levels.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

While the announcement, made in the company’s recent annual report, seems to be a white flag of surrender, it could just be a yellow warning light. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. The company says it is taking action to ensure its future viability. So what should Sears do now?

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Alvarez & Marsals Bryan Marsal, Lehmans restructuring officer, ``is actually operating the company. Productivity. (6). Who knew he could stimulate the economy so quickly? WaMu made a motion to designate William C. bankruptcy Sept. 15 in New York. 15 in New York.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, a company that needs to update its computer systems might seek advice from IT consultants. Turnarounds. Consultants can also recommend growth strategies like market development or product development, which may be good for the organisation overall but not in the interests of a particular manager, division or department.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. Yet she chose to spend her first three months talking with employees, understanding their concerns, and testing their reactions to potential solutions to the company’s problems. Hope rekindled.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

Steve Jobs had just returned to the company and the product line was a shamble of computers with confusing names, printers, scanners, and a curious, yet ill-conceived PDA called the Newton. The outlook for Apple was bleak — most media wrote the company off as a shadow of its former self. Value reporters time. Be hands on.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. Identify experts inside and outside your company. Request an interview.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

It only takes one ineffective leader to lower productivity and increase turnover in your organization and these two problems can cost you thousands of dollars if left unchecked. Many leaders are unaware of the negative impact they are having on the people and productivity around them. appeared first on Peter Barron Stark Companies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

More than 20 companies launched at that time , including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Yes, those companies had great technologies, platforms, and demographics, but the secret of their success turns out to be much more prosaic. Yagi Studio/Getty Images. You would be wrong.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

But most past investigations have begun with one common critical feature: product lists and country targets were publicized at the beginning of the trade investigation, many months before any tariffs would be imposed. In a world of just-in-time production, this was well after the cargo ships had left the foreign port.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

The trend is attributed to the growth of digital communication channels and reduced access to physicians, who increasingly prefer to get product information online. Changing company strategies is another, including new strategic product/market priorities and shifts to e-commerce. sales jobs from its high-end craft beer division.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Without the breathing room to invest in new equipment and technologies, smaller manufacturers may be up to 40% less productive than large companies—a gap so sizable that it drags down the entire sector’s performance. It’s clear why pain in the domestic supplier base matters from a policy perspective.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

For all their shiny, architect-designed headquarters buildings with atrium acreage, companies are often slaves to the past. When Tata took over the ailing Jaguar Land Rover company from Ford, it had a simple message for the company’s workers: forget about quarterly results, make great cars. The first is the past.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Companies such as IBM, Apple, Toyota, and Fidelity have demonstrated an interest and appetite for deep research and innovation by introducing AI platforms and solutions for customers, partners, and employees. AI, however, comes with its own set of caveats that companies must understand and address before initiating a program.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

. “I wanted to highlight some of the progress we have made in mobile, which is another big strategic area for us,” he told listeners , noting that Google Maps was becoming popular for Blackberry users and later adding that it was critical that the company make sure all its content worked on phones. That makes sense.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. Focus - Al Ries Summary: If your company has lost the focus it once had, here are clear solutions for moving your organization back to its key service and discarding everything else.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? But get it just right and your sales efforts can drive productivity and growth. First, support frees up frontline sales employees to be more productive.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

That’s demoralizing for employees, and a waste for companies, which badly need the full energy and commitment of all their workers. By attacking the root causes of organizational drag, companies can eliminate unnecessary work, reenergize the workforce and, at the same time, put the business on a better course. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

You can either suffer the details or use one of many productivity tools on the market to get your meeting on calendars, such as Calendly, Assistant.to, ScheduleOnce, and TimeTrade. But his core business is turnaround consulting. So don’t do it. Dan Waldschmidt’s swords.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Investment banking case studies are a lot more quantitative and tend to focus on reading financial statements and based on a corporate finance deal e.g. a company going public on the stock market. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

In the nine months I endured this toxic environment, three of my good team members quit the company. Most often, they’re going to need additional help in developing the strategies and actions to make a positive turnaround. appeared first on Peter Barron Stark Companies. After all, he had to know his kid pretty well, right?

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

While it’s not an exact science, see what you make of the following story… Doug Meyer: In North America, a pharmaceutical company manufactured and marketed Consumer Health Products. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. In his own words: “ Where’s the fun in taking over a successful company.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. However, only one of its senior managers had worked in more than a single business line. But that potential had been squandered. Erika Andersen.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Bain & Company. Booz & Company. McKinsey & Company. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Bain & Company. Bain & Company (Hong Kong). Founded in 1973 when Bill Bain and others left BCG to form Bain & Company. IMS Health.

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