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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Digital commerce must still contend with cash.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

We do a lot of thinking about change, we do a lot of leadership, and those pieces are out there in so many different ways that people will pick that up and connect with us through social media and through other ways to find us. There’s a lot of fatigue from some of the investment versus ‘are we getting real change?’ How do you do that?