Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. Determining if your system is truly “unified” starts with looking at your core processes to determine if they’re working. Does your culture enable problem-solving/exploration?

Agile 52

Agile Tools Data Talent 52

BCG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

OTP is also affected by decisions made in multiple areas, including fleet size and composition, flight crew composition, and flight turnaround times. But the challenges of complexity and difficulty pale beside the benefits of getting OTP right and the high costs—financial, operational, cultural, and reputational—of enduring ongoing problems.

Airlines 40

Airlines Turnaround Operations Financial 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

When promoted to his new role, he inherited a group of district sales managers responsible for selling to hospital systems in their respective geographies. Role Models: shape the values, behavior, and culture of the organization. Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company.

Turnaround 30

Turnaround Talent Groups Meeting 30

Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A wiki is a knowledge management system that: Is digital and Is updated and edited by its own audience. The turnaround time can easily be days instead of minutes. Pros Rich add-on eco-system Open structure for maximum flexibility High security standards Embedded in Atlassian eco-system (Jira, etc.)

Company 52

Company How To Tools Process Improvement 52

Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” Is the business getting started, i.e., new in a market OR has it been so successful and grown fast that it needs internal systems? Business Ethics, Culture and Performance. ” Look at life cycles.

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. The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. By 8am the next morning, the system had a 100% increase in capacity. * and to do it fast.

Case Interview 81

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

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

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Various AI-related technologies, such as natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, robotics, machine learning, and speech recognition, have substan­tially progressed over the years to coalesce into systems that do, think, learn, and continuously adapt. Start small.

Insurance 28

Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 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. But the planned urban development PUD also has shared infrastructure and systems that enable the community to operate (e.g.,

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A series of jarring experiences have taught you that: Your management authority is meaningless in a culture that worships engineers. Dense geographic concentrations in regions such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston and Bangalore foster even more cultural idiosyncrasies. Tech employees work long days and during weekends and holidays.

Talent 28

Talent Culture Turnaround Interviews 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. ” Sallstrom had a second reason for looking outside the company: He and Jacoby believed that only an infusion of fresh talent could transform Volvo’s culture into an entrepreneurial one. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Talent 28

Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. 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.

Development 28

Development Leadership Talent Agile 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the end, a combination of unattainable objectives, an environment that lacked transparency, and a culture where failure was not perceived to be a viable option, led some VA administrators and clinic staff to manipulate data to make it appear as though the wait time goal was being achieved. Could the organization turn itself around?

Culture 28

Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

From looking at the qualities of the CEOs at the best-performing of these firms, we have found three fundamental CEO qualities that drive growth in the most successful PE investments: Systems thinking (the capacity to understand how a change in one aspect of the workings of an operation affects the others).

Company 28

Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Fred Lynch, CEO of Masonite, a 92-year-old company that manufactures interior doors and entry door systems, created a long-term value creation thesis that he called the Masonite “blueprint.” And the beauty was that it became a self-governing system. ” These four practices operate together as a system.

Metrics 29

Metrics Study Financial Operations 29

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

This is confirmed by my follow-up interviews with these leaders, which revealed that these internal transitions can be every bit as tough as onboarding, involving combinations of promotions and moves to new units or new geographies, as well as dealing with different cultures and political networks.

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

We were given full access to the academies’ management information systems, leaders, staff and students so we could see how they worked, the decisions they’d made and the impact they’d had. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken. So what did we find?

How To 28

How To Resources Education Turnaround 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. And I learned that was a very important way to look at a company.”

Interviews 28

Interviews Benchmarking Case Interview Talent 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. Building Block 1—Challenge the system: stay for at least 5 years. In the UK system, “governors” are the school’s board of directors.)

Research 28

Research Study Education Recruiting 28