Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). Operating interest (a working capital line of credit).

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

This inefficiency can lead to delays in project completion, missed deadlines, and ultimately, reduced output, poor customer service and lower sales. Cost savings through streamlined processes: Effective teamwork can lead to improved operational efficiency and streamlined processes.

Training 99

Training Training Leadership Resources 99

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2014

The skyscraper-filled skyline of the Conch Bay district in the northern port city of Tianjin has none of a metropolis’s bustle up close, with dirt-covered glass doors and construction on some edifices halted. Sales of bonds by local-government vehicles to repay bank loans are just “buying time,” he said.

Hotels 78

Hotels Banking Construction Government 78

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Regular Performance Feedback: Provide regular and constructive feedback to remote workers. Having a remote work infrastructure in place enables organizations to continue operations and minimize downtime, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery to clients and customers. This helped build team trust and camaraderie.

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Leadership Training Training Productivity 101

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Kearney operates across 55 locations world wide. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain. That's the banks' problem."

Cash Flow 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

As the tension built, the chance of working together positively and constructively to add value for the benefit of all shareholders slipped away. One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think Positive: Where Does the Activist Fit as a Shareholder?

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Construction Meeting Company 28

Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A common component in constructing a better life is increased personal income. It is common for IBA clients to receive 6, 7, & 8 figure sale prices for their privately held companies and family owned businesses, a great nest egg for estate planning or retirement. Investment. Lack of Alternatives.

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Sales Financial Ethics Construction 40

Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

Nearly every major company today operates a broad set of social and environmental activities that parallel its commercial value chain. Therefore, continuous communication, joint projects, and stakeholder engagement are what is needed to build constructive working relationships with those constituencies. Nike is about fitness.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Google has appealed and is now preparing its defense. What Is a Digital Replica?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Just as you construct an investment portfolio differently for different investment objectives, you want construct your thinking portfolio. As strategy and planning give way to execution and operations, those with a more micro orientation take the lead. Most teams need every kind of thinking style at one point or another.

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Construction Agile Examples Efficiency 50

Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Yet it is extremely important that this interface be workable because developments are not relevant until they find their way into operations. An operation is charted to preserve the status quo, the current thinking and methods. Operations are based in control.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. In a future dominated by autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing schemes, a typical family might decide to own fewer cars or none at all — meaning lower unit sales, all else equal.

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Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Who among your current sales team has this ability?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If sales need to be increased, that’s change management. Each innovation brings lessons that inform ongoing operations. For example, Gary Kaplan, president of XL Catlin’s North American Construction insurance, got his division started by formulating some major strategic goals.

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Change Management Management Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

To improve their job performance, successful human advisors will use virtual assistants to tackle routine administrative tasks and focus on more constructive, creative, and relationship-building activities. Assess readiness. Start small.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 27, 2014

The earth movers digging out a sandy pit in the beach town of Biarritz could be any construction site in France. The Spanish, fleeing a construction slump and an unemployment rate of 26 percent at home, say they’re just using European Union rules allowing free movement of businesses and workers. “We Wal-Mart, J.C. percent of all U.S.

Banking 78

Banking Retail Healthcare Sales 78

Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

We found that companies that were successful in building CEs did three things: (1) They all implemented modular product architectures; (2) they leased, instead of sold, at least some of their products; and (3) they expanded their refurbishing operations.

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Policies Productivity Accenture Operations 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Denial of service (DoS) attacks : Attacks that overwhelm an organization with malicious traffic, disrupting normal operations.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

18% reported a failure to close a sale. Identify five people that know you well and would be comfortable giving you constructive feedback. Executive Coaching Example: A leader from one part of the world was assigned to take on operations in another in one organization. 44% lead to failure in completing their projects.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, a failure to understand your ownership options can ultimately cripple your business, causing it to lose its competitive advantage, even resulting in buy-outs or sales that nobody really wants. This model, which we call owner-operator , can be successful for many generations. Our great-grandfather wanted us to be equal owners.”

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Operations Policies Company Government 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

For example, Rio’s city hall has established a WhatsApp channel (link in Portuguese) to answer questions about the construction work that is affecting the city prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics. In other words, it presents a great opportunity for businesses to provide premium sales experiences. Two mistakes to avoid.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Video Apparel Operations 28

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

A closer look revealed that the leadership team had changed sales promotions every week, while the norm was monthly changes in the other divisions. ” Leadership teams must operate as a unified force. In one technology services company I worked with, the eastern U.S. Or you’re both fired.”

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Culture Leadership Study Comparison 51

Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When we ask business audiences to guess how many companies with revenues above $1 billion are operating across the continent, their answers range from 50 to 100—but the true number is 400, with a combined annual income of $1.2 For instance, we find that only 30% of revenues are earned by companies that operate in the resources sector.

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Resources Talent Marketing Government 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

But gains in financial operations? Everything Rosy but Healthcare Curiously, the following chart from the report makes everything look rosy except healthcare. I don't accept that chart, at least for the implied reasons.

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Industry Biotechnology Transportation Healthcare 28

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. Thank you, Michael. It’s a pleasure to be here. We hire people.

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Consulting Productivity Advertising Training 116

Harvard Business

JANUARY 23, 2017

If you’re operating in a highly individualistic culture, select a “coalition of the willing,” people who are favorably inclined to collaborate and won’t gripe to colleagues about a few hiccups while you build momentum. Publicize advances that people make collaboratively to stir up some constructive rivalry among peers.

How To 28

How To Real Estate Research System 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. The only questions the circle should avoid are what to do about current operational problems. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 36

Leadership Pharmaceuticals Groups Operations 36

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Founded in 1989 by three former consultants of the MAC Group (a boutique sales and distribution consulting firm), Cornerstone Research was established to be very different than the general management consulting firm it was birthed from; focused on unique clients, managing delicate client relationships, and offering specialized work.

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Interviews Research Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2016

That opened opportunities for local companies like Lagos-based AppZone and Nairobi-based Craft Silicon , both fintech companies, to expand operations across the continent. The present economic upheaval in the continent offers prospects for local companies that offer products that can be priced without direct consideration of the forex market.

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Intellectual Property Government Banking Software 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It teaches young people the dress, demeanor, and collaboration skills expected in a professional setting as well as the technical skills for careers in IT, operations, finance, sales and marketing, or customer service. Meanwhile, Starbucks, CVS Health, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase joined with more than a dozen other large U.S.

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Talent Education Engineering Software 28

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Even companies that make industrial products like cars, medical devices, and construction equipment are increasingly competing with digitally sophisticated firms like Tesla and Nest that regularly update their connected physical products online. Operations in a Connected World. But when a product is delivered online (e.g.,

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