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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

Car sales in the U.S. But car sales are now probably past a cyclical peak, not only in the U.S. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. In 2013 PCC acquired Permaswage SAS, a manufacturer of aerospace fluid fittings, for $600 million and divested its Primus Composites business. It lifted its gross profit-to-sales ratio from 27% to 35%.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Sales and Marketing. Business Process Management. Change Management. In 2013 alone, 2,861 instructor-led courses were offered by the firm. More accolades include: Association of Management Consulting Firms – Excellence in Consulting: Corporate Responsibility/Humanitarian (2014). Information Technology.

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Its expertise includes branding, corporate finance, corporate responsibility, financial & risk effectiveness, IT, manufacturing, marketing, organization, real estate management, research and development, restructuring, sales, strategy, and supply chain management. Management Consulting. Seabury Group. Leave a Comment.

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Foundations of Consulting ? Part 2: How Do Consultants Work.

Consulting and Organizational Management

By Carter McNamara on February 12, 2013. which defines a consultant (as Peter Block puts it) as someone who is trying to change another person, process or organization, but who has no direct control over what they are trying to change. Implementation Phase (Change Management Phase). Guest Writer Submissions.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

GE also went to work on transforming internal processes like sales and supplier relationships. For example, when P&G was making its digital push in 2012 and 2013, it was already well ahead of most companies—and perhaps all of them—in the consumer products industry.

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How Companies Are Benefiting from “Lite” Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Business

.” When the company upgraded its commercial insurance line for small businesses a few years ago, the agents jammed internal call centers with questions about how the policies worked and how to set sales quotes. The cost of simply expanding the call centers was prohibitive. Don’t make your AI too lite.

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