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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Economic uncertainties, recessions, and unforeseen disruptions can shake the foundations of even the most robust enterprises. For example, during the 2008 financial crisis Microsoft used its large cash reserves to continue investing in software development and R&D, which has paid off in the long run.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

In 1999, rock-and-roll legend Rikk promoted me within six months from sales associate and drum department head at Sam Ash Music to Operations Manager, where I not only led a warehouse crew, but I became the regional trainer on an Oracle-based POS system at the age of 23.

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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013

Tom Spencer

BCG partners with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

BCG partners with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Functional infrastructure would be elevated to the enterprise level, or pushed down into the regional, anchor operating-unit level. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure).

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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia

Tom Spencer

Services offered include complexity management, enterprise transformation, operations, procurement solutions, strategic information technology, strategy and sustainability. The Birchman Group provides six core services: value management, business advisory, IT advisory, enterprise applications, software development, and business change.

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Collaboration Overload Is a Symptom of a Deeper Organizational Problem

Harvard Business

A single-product enterprise, for example, might add new products, focus on new customer segments, or even enter new geographic markets. When Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital acquired Anheuser-Busch in 2008 to form AB InBev, it dramatically reduced the number of executives involved in making key decisions. Organizational complexity.

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