Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2021

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. Lack of physical engagement with clients has added challenges.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 20, 2021

Efficiency in business comes down to reaching goals with the highest degree of quality and speed possible. When workflow breaks down and this efficiency fails, it’s worth questioning why it happened and how to prevent it in the future. If the hands and feet, eyes and ears don’t coordinate, the body can’t move efficiently.

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Efficiency Software Tools Energy 52

Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Driving creativity within an organization's culture is increasingly vital for leaders. At BASF, chemical production sites are highly interlinked product flows resulting in efficient uses of resources. At these verbund sites, production, energy, logistics, and site infrastructure are integrated.

Talent 52

Talent Handbook Chemicals How To 52

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. The energy, commitment, and collaboration among team members was a revelation.

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 35

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

Energy 28

Energy Case Interview Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Climate Commitment is one way we help solve the unsustainable demand for energy resources and its impact on the environment. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. What lessons can we share?

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC. This diverse group of employees span at least 50 nationalities.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well. They have designed their national office to be state of the art and a next-generation work place.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Services include architecture, building engineering, construction services, design + planning, economics, energy and environmental services. Through its economics and planning service Arup focuses on creating sustainable, efficient and culturally-appropriate businesses and places. and has operations in more than 20 countries.

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Consulting Intellectual Property Engineering Real Estate 94

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating.

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Company Culture Turnaround Productivity 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. and European line of cold-water detergents that require 50% less energy than warm water washing.

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Comatch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Reshape company culture : Employees often perceive freelancers as a threat, and leaders are often nervous about the effects that outsourcing work may have on their in-house staff. This means that firms need to draw up new policies that take into account the new scenery in which they will operate today.

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Talent Intellectual Property Policies Development 52

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team.

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How To Healthcare Operations Leadership 28

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Cultural differences can emerge, particularly if the companies have been at different ends of the spectrum in the marketplace. “In bringing together a specialist direct-marketing agency with a generalist creative shop, cultural differences were bound to arise, given the contrast in customer approach and sensibilities.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need to build an intentional, human-centered culture and approach burnout and well-being comprehensively — aligning them with other organizational priorities. They also enable them to make changes as-needed before fatigue and frustration are imbedded within a system’s operations and culture.

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Metrics System Healthcare Culture 28

Eupnea Management Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Extreme as some of these external events are, they also almost always require drastic action from businesses and their leaders in order to adapt effectively and continue to develop their operations and grow. We were basically at that point and should have been, you know, transiting from being an idea to being an operational business.

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Interviews Insurance Insurance Culture 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Deeper analysis showed that investing more time and energy into partnering with some of these lower growth accounts could improve them.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 7, 2022

A multinational biopharmaceutical company brought in a new CEO to improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. The CEO immediately recognized the need to improve the culture and reenergize the organization. The organization’s energy and confidence were back, well founded, and palatable. Download Case Study.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

As many people know, Alexander Fleming originally discovered the miracle cure in 1928, when his bacteria culture was contaminated by a mold. The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. Manufacturers are excited about the program as well. Dr. Mukesh V.

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Government Research Journal Biotechnology 28

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. Management focused attention and effort on more quickly identifying and “exceptions handling” the edge cases that took the most time and energy to resolve.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 8, 2022

When you are operating from your superpower, you are in flow, confident, and bold! You already know this language because they are coded within you, and you see these archetypes in art, movies, myths, history, and culture. This monomyth cuts across all cultures identified by 20th-century mythologist Joseph Campbell.

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Consulting Engineering Operations Energy 156

MishTalk

JULY 27, 2013

Robots will cost plenty - for the largest farming operations, millions of dollars - but farm operators say the expense will be worth it. Machinery and machine technology has made farming easier and more efficient for centuries. economy," says a report by the Bread for the World Institute. The development continues.

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Analysis Trends Real Estate Financial 78

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. This could be directly, as Sephora does with its online communities using beauty tips as currencies.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. It doesn’t matter if your company culture is friendly or competitive, nurturing or analytical.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Fanatical attention to the design and management of scalable processes, routines, and a working culture by which simple, stand-alone, and standardized products are sold globally at a predictable, and therefore manageable, volume, quality, and cost. Resource architecture: What makes us good? And how good are we?)

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies.

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Cash Flow Financial Balance Sheet Bain 46

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Seeing how my grandchildren admired me meant the world to me and gave me a boost of energy to continue to generate additional creative ideas.” Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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How To System Resources Development 35

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The focus here should be on repeatability and efficiency. This unusual combination of squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds is the organizational infrastructure that underlies Spotify’s operating model. Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power. ” Adapted from.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

The title of our book celebrates the internal energy and sense of insurgency that propels rapidly growing companies, but the book also warns of four predictable internal growth barriers that all too often trip up these companies during their pursuit of scale. At its worst, this can breed a toxic culture.

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Talent Company Culture Bain 35

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

But in the culture of firefighting that had developed at the company, decisions were treated in isolation or in response to day-to-day developments in the business. Such decisions require addressing complex organizational challenges such as multiple, often-conflicting stakeholders with differing values, experiences, or cultural needs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Its success was achieved by a culture of innovation and the speedy introduction of new products. Today, Philips produces everything from automated external defibrillators to energy-efficient lighting for entire cities. It now has around 10,000 operating projects.

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Productivity Tourism Sales Fashion 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Abandoning the treaty was predicated on preserving American jobs, but if he’d tuned into our HBR webinar, Delivering Economic Resilience in the New Energy Paradigm, he’d have been forewarned that Pittsburgh dismantles his argument. The energy that ran the city came from a centralized macrogrid-based power system.

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Energy System Policies Talent 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. But culturally and operationally, they’ll need to publicly enact three interrelated initiatives to mitigate risks : 1.

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Enterprise Software Data Training 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

PWC INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. PwC’s audit sector includes 40% of companies in the FTSE 100 Index and 45% of the Fortune 1000 energy companies. Assists clients with critical tax issues by providing quality tax services and in-depth knowledge of the industries and markets in which clients operate. Europe alone accounts for 45%.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers IBM GBS Case Interview Interviews 221

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Most people look for purpose in their lives; if they cannot find it in work they find some external activity and place their energies elsewhere. High performance organizations’ manage to tap into this potential energy. This ordered hierarchy was an efficient way to denote ‘who did what’.

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