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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

The former president of Wiremold, Art Byrne, explains in his book The Lean Turnaround that he eliminated volume discounts and incentives for sales to book the largest possible orders. I consulted to an outdoor goods company whose warranty department got into trouble every summer. Next week: Batch Processing. Permalink

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Whatever your leadership role in your company, you can begin to close the respect gap by infusing more respectful behaviors into your work profile. When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? RADIOSHACK , an American consumer electronics giant of yesteryear, faced chaotic trading on Wednesday as analysts predicted the company would report it’s 10th straight quarter of losses. Why is the company failing? Source: Flickr ).

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. I know a highly talented professional with over 20 years of experience with several Fortune 500 companies. Translation: turnaround expert.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. Turnaround and Restructuring. 2013) Outstanding Turnaround Firm – Turnarounds & Workouts. Practice Areas.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Although IT consulting firms can be big shops such as Gartner and Infosys, healthcare and turnaround consulting firms tend to be more boutique in nature. Internal Corporate Strategy Consulting.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

More and more companies – also your competitors – are leveraging the remote workforce. Benefits include a favorable cost structure, easier access to talent and potentially quicker turnaround / longer coverage of business hours (e.g., Remote work is here to stay The pandemic has accelerated the emergence of a truly global labor market.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Do I even need to tell you that the company is struggling with both productivity and quality? I’ve been working with this company to improve performance on the shop floor, but progress has been incremental. That workers don’t seem committed to their jobs? That tool theft is a problem?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

This book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Boost HR and company productivity and performance with metrics that matter. Realistic and Actionable.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

A large American beverage company acquired a fruit juice company for $350 million five years ago with the goal to increase revenues tenfold. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. A South Korean company is acquiring a U.S. What should the company do?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. Many have strategy heads, who are ex-dealmakers at investment banks, whose default assumption is that if the company has a performance problem, the natural fix is to buy and/or sell something. And with the stock closing at $13.96

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on how Procter & Gamble’s CEO is under scrutiny by investors and the board for a stalling turnaround effort. P&G’s Stumbles Put CEO On Hot Seat for Turnaround. At this meeting, seven to 10 executives met to discuss the state of the company and make decisions.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 11, 2014

I like to say (especially to business buyers with stars in their eyes) that, “turnarounds make headlines because they are rare.” Ecstatic customers that look to the company as a solution provider and partner. What could be better than situation three (we are not talking about investor grade, emerging businesses)?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

A staggering 88% of companies listed in the 1955 Fortune 500 are nowhere to be found in the same list today. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.” Now it’s less than 15 years.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Some of this year's best business books are narratives that cover the divergent fortunes of three hot technology companies -- one that crashed to earth, one in the midst of a wrenching turnaround, and one that is soaring into the stratosphere.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

It was hard to be more of an insider at The Walt Disney Company than COO Thomas Staggs. The 26-year company veteran had been widely seen as the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger — that is, until Staggs abruptly stepped down this month. “We’ve spent a lot of time with companies that are worried,” Nielson says.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

“It’s natural for companies to look for employees who have a track record,” he says. “You’re choosing to come back, which means the company wants you back,” she says. “No one wants to hear about how bad the company was when you left,” Dillon says. Network around the company.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

The tiny company brought major changes to the presentation of technical courtroom evidence using computer models built with a simple yet powerful goal in mind – to help jury members understand the technical merits in law cases. 1999: FTI Consulting began trading as a public company on the NYSE. companies by Fortune Magazine.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. The result: wasted time and unnecessary frustration. SOURCE Michael Watkins. ©

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2022

It is work and it is hard work and time consuming to find a mature, profitable, and fairly priced company. The seller controls the deal, if it’s a mature profitable company. If you want to control the deal look for a turnaround business and roll the dice. Do customers like the company or the general manager?

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Alvarez & Marsals Bryan Marsal, Lehmans restructuring officer, ``is actually operating the company. After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. bankruptcy Sept.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific Northwest’s oldest business brokerage firm, have collaboratively completed a significant number of transactions involving the purchase & sale of privately held companies, including one already in 2017.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, a company that needs to update its computer systems might seek advice from IT consultants. Turnarounds. Below we outline five (5) reasons why organisations engage consulting firms. Expert Knowledge. Consultants can provide management with the expertise needed to address specific business problems.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Take Anne Mulcahy, who stepped into the CEO role at Xerox in 2001, during a particularly tough time in the company’s history. Yet she chose to spend her first three months talking with employees, understanding their concerns, and testing their reactions to potential solutions to the company’s problems. Hope rekindled.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. Both of those leaders are now CEOs — one of a $10 billion retail chain and another of a specialty eyewear company. Identify experts inside and outside your company. Request an interview.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

While the announcement, made in the company’s recent annual report, seems to be a white flag of surrender, it could just be a yellow warning light. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. The company says it is taking action to ensure its future viability. So what should Sears do now?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

More than 20 companies launched at that time , including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Yes, those companies had great technologies, platforms, and demographics, but the secret of their success turns out to be much more prosaic. Yagi Studio/Getty Images. You would be wrong.

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Peter Stark

JUNE 9, 2020

Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford, is probably the greatest example of someone who leads a company without technical expertise. Mulally proved that prediction wrong by leading one of the most successful corporate turnarounds in our lifetime. appeared first on Peter Barron Stark Companies. The post Are you leadership material?

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The then 31-year-old buyer added a breath of fresh air , investment and the company now has 100 employees. A client company recently grew by acquisition by buying a direct competitor. Once stagnation hits it may not be a turnaround but it sure is a fixer-upper, and that is something all sellers need to avoid. Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

For all their shiny, architect-designed headquarters buildings with atrium acreage, companies are often slaves to the past. When Tata took over the ailing Jaguar Land Rover company from Ford, it had a simple message for the company’s workers: forget about quarterly results, make great cars. The first is the past.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

She was on her way home from two days in Arkansas visiting her company’s largest facility. It was a division of FB Holdings, a manufacturing company based in Aurora, Illinois, and it had the unfortunate distinction of being the group’s poorest performing unit for nearly a decade. ’ There’s no sense of community.”

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1 to 1

JANUARY 26, 2016

The world's largest restaurant company has suffered disappointing sales growth and declining margins. But buoyed by a strong fourth quarter that beat analysts' expectations, McDonald's recent customer-focused turnaround appears to be putting some luster back in the golden arches. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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