Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Here is a verbatim snippet from her résumé at the time: PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND SERVICES Senior consultant with professional experience in Organization Development and Change, Leadership and Organizational Communications and Coaching , as well as internal and external Corporate Communications, including global marketing initiatives.

Consulting 150

Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This year I realized that a marketing thing I’ve always been good at was not something I was actually teaching to my clients. My first step was to implement this marketing thing even better to fill my next group program. Then I started teaching this marketing thing to the participants of the new program. And it worked wonders.

Turnaround 62

Turnaround Methodologies Sales Marketing 62

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. Role Models: shape the values, behavior, and culture of the organization. Talent Developers: attract, assess, develop, and retain talent. Architects: design and transform the organization.

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Turnaround Talent Groups Meeting 36

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Market trends? Leading organizations have the agility and flexibility needed to respond to disruptions, evolve with market conditions, and act on emerging trends without clunky processes holding them back. How long does it take to bring those solutions to market? Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration?

Agile 52

Agile Tools Data Talent 52

Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

Suntory will have to outpace industrywide growth in its two biggest markets, the U.S. and Japan, and expand into new markets.” This takes me back to what must be about 10 years ago when Seattle supermarket chain and institution Larry’s Market went under. Nobody in my market! They leveraged the deal too highly.

Small Business 40

Small Business Turnaround Sales Guidelines 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

Most of the LCPs we studied began with the task of ensuring the PE firm itself had the right talent, culture, and leadership, and then moved on to do the same for portfolio companies. A company turnaround focuses on costs and can often be done through financial reengineering and cost cutting measures.

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 28

Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

My experience of the differences of between OD in small and large is that in small organizations: It rarely works to market myself as “guiding change” or “change agent,” etc. Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” Leadership.

Consulting 76

Consulting Organizational Development Nonprofit Small Business 76

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

Option A was the best logical option, but it was also a tough sell, given the culture of the organization. Option B was 80% as good as Option A, but had no cultural resistance. EXAMPLE #1: The date was November 22, 2000 for XYZ company -- one of the leading start companies in the eCommerce software services market.

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

One effective way is to work on culture. Box 2 muscle requires a culture where honest Box 2 questions are encouraged. Looking at Nadella’s communications, you may consider what new narratives could you introduce to create a Box 2 culture in your company? Imagine Jack looking at your organization.

Company 28

Company Culture Turnaround Productivity 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. The Turnaround. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. What changed?

Chemicals 34

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 34

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. What we found was an incredible paradox.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Engineering Leadership Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market.

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

With so much activity around AI experimentation and implementation – combined with customer demand, cost pressure, and the need to maintain or expand their foothold in the market – insurers can no longer afford to overlook AI and its implications. Start small.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Talent 28

Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. Since its 2005 founding, the marketing company had grown to over 1,100 employees.

Exercises 36

Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 36

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. It takes a major cultural shift in the company. However, as Avaya’s example shows, embracing innovation may necessitate a major cultural shift and the casting overboard of supposedly tried-and-true ways of doing business.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies Agile Metrics Exercises 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. You might have “realized the culture was wonderful and you miss it.” What the Experts Say. Here are some ideas.

Company 44

Company Case Study Case Studies B2C 44

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration. Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership.

Development 28

Development Leadership Talent Agile 28

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture. Doug observed this when he moved into a Vice President of Marketing position at Nabisco in the $3.5

Financial 28

Financial Culture Leadership Report 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

He had spent his entire 14-year career at the company, had worked hard, and had rapidly climbed the ranks in sales and marketing. The biggest challenges onboarding leaders face typically have to do with culture and politics. He inherited a strong team with a proven track record.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

Company 28

Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Ambitious women may be hesitant to self-promote, driven more by a sense of purpose and a desire to contribute value and shape culture. Nearly one-quarter said creating a positive culture was one of their most important accomplishments. ’ I went anyhow.”

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Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28