Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Pricing Strategy. How should it price this product? Growth Strategy. They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. 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.

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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

Plenty of theories have been put forth to explain Yahoo’s failures, as the company seeks a buyer following a failed turnaround attempt. The data indicates that from the release of the iPhone in 2007 to Mayer’s appointment as CEO in 2012, Yahoo talked less about mobile than Google, at least on its earnings calls.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation.

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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. ” Keeping it simple, with five core strategies in his long-term plan, helped people remember his message.

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