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Leap of Faith? Easier in a Strong Economy?

Martinka Consulting

I recently put out a notice to my network about a friend and client looking for an operations manager for his manufacturing business. When the economy sucks (think 2009-2011) too many buyers are overly defensive (and maybe they should be). A heart attack or cancer quickens the pace versus “we want to travel more.”

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Revenue: $20B+ (2011). Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. During this same year, IBM introduced Business Recovery Services as a formal business offering for customers, enabling them to continue operations in the event of an unplanned outage or disaster.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. They were caught behind the times.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

While the years up to 2002 were a time of growth for the firm, 2003 to 2011 brought a whole new meaning to the word “expansion”. The end of 2011 witnessed a new FTI Consulting emerge with clients in a wider range of industries and with dramatically expanded areas of expertise. 2011 saw FTI working for 97 of the top 100 U.S.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

Revenue: $1.3B+ (2011). The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. Operations and Logistics. Website: www.booz.com. Headquarters: New York City, NY.

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How Unilever Reaches Rural Consumers in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business

Tap women to power sales. With its Shakti initiative, Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) pioneered the concept of training local women as rural sales agents who sell Unilever products door to door in their communities. Nielsen has estimated they account for 36% of the country’s fast-moving consumer goods sales.

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How Mergers Change the Way Your Company Competes

Harvard Business

This kind of competition often drives consolidation mergers, in which two firms combine their production and sales. The DOJ opposed the 2011 merger that AT&T and T-Mobile wanted because it feared that the merger would threaten the role of T-Mobile as a disruptive “ un-carrier ” in the telecom industry.

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