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Brewing a Turnaround at DAVIDsTEA

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more than 12,000 stores are expected to close in 2018, up from about 9,000 in 2017, according to commerci. At first glance, this is another example of a brick-and-mortar business struggling to stay afloat in a retail economy that is increasingly shifting toward e-commerce and digital experiences. In the U.S.,

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How does your consulting business stack up? Take our 16th Annual WIC Best Practices Survey (open March 14-April 7) and find out.

Women in Consulting

This year our survey is open March 14 to April 7, 2018, and takes only 10 – 15 minutes to complete. Whether your business continues to expand, has experienced a slowdown or turnaround, or is consistent with last year, we want to hear about your experiences. The survey is only open until April 7, 2018. Some Important Details.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. Any consumer or service company that doesn’t have a digital component certainly should; this is 2018, after all.

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GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.

Harvard Business

In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. So on June 26, 2018, Flannery announced that GE was going to be fixed by doing more, and bigger, divestitures, this time spinning out the giant GE Healthcare and Baker Hughes businesses — and cutting costs some more.

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Outsider CEOs Are on the Rise at the World’s Biggest Companies

Harvard Business

” With Iger’s contract ending in 2018, the company said its board “will broaden the scope of its succession planning process to identify and evaluate a robust slate of candidates for consideration.” ” That broader scope may extend well beyond Disney’s ranks. one of the authors of the study.

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Implementing Great Customer Service

Confessions of a Consultant

The legendary book ‘Moments of Truth’ by Jan Carlzon, detailed the business turnaround enacted at Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) and was on the executive best-seller bookshelf in the late 1980’s. Next Blog: January 1 st 2018. It’s hardly a new idea. I hope Santa brings you something nice.

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The Element of Surprise Is a Bad Strategy for a Trade War

Harvard Business

He triggered investigations in April 2017, yet the exact “steel” and “aluminum” products on his tariff list weren’t made public until mid-February 2018. A short turnaround between product announcement and tariffs means countervailing political forces have little time to mobilize.