Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

How should it price this product? The company started making handheld wireless devices in 1999 and gained substantial market share in the initial smart phone market prior to the release of the iPhone in 2007. Operations. A leading financial services company is trying to reduce operating expenditures. Turnarounds.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

It isn’t just in college football because MLB’s attendance has been declining since around 2007. I’ll broaden my scope of attention a bit more by continuing to focus on strategy even though I know there will continue to be numpties that will say, “we don’t do strategy” or “that’s not how we operate”. You will get branding.

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Sports Marketing Travel Turnaround 59

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. “Rather, Yahoo’s existing products didn’t work on mobile.”

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Turnaround Data Operations Company 28

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. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. From there, the team began to create rules to determine when the company could add products and elements. Other companies can do the same.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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