Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. 2) Heavy team interaction.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

These firms also use a generalist model, meaning that consultants tend not to develop a specialization until they become managers. Service areas – or functional areas – can include strategy, operations, technology, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, among others. Internal Corporate Strategy Consulting. Image: Pexels.

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Consulting Turnaround Healthcare Deloitte 60

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Retain talent?

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Agile Tools Data Talent 52

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Consultants can provide management with the expertise needed to address specific business problems. Turnarounds. Consultants can assist management by providing independent advice. Consultants can assist management by supporting organisational change. Expert Knowledge. Independent Advice. Catalyst for Change.

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Consulting McKinsey Turnaround Information Technology 68

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Records management. In 2005, the firm developed their first 5-year plan with a goal to double revenues from approximately $427M to $1B in 5 years. Restructuring/Turnaround Services.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

in Management Consulting. Value Partners Management Consulting. Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Definitions.

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Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 107

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. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. You build your way up to those levels.

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Turnaround Fashion Training Training 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. Virgin Galactic has developed a new rocket that can take off and land like a normal plane. Operations. A leading financial services company is trying to reduce operating expenditures. Turnarounds. The CEO asks you, “How should Toyota price this car?”.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Different industries need to test different skills and therefore depending on whether you’re applying to management consultancies, strategy consultancies or investment banking, your case study will be slightly different. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Case Interview 53

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

in Management Consulting. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cedar Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. List of strategy consulting firms in London 2011. List of strategy consulting firms in London.

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BearingPoint Capgemini Strategy Strategy 99

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves.

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

These individuals range from executives with proven company records to interim managers, and these so called ‘supertemps’ have established their position as useful personnel. So, why has this phenomenon gripped the business world and are their proven benefits for businesses? billion in revenue in 2009.

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SMB Enterprise Talent Efficiency 60

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

Talent 28

Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. In fact, in terms of firms we profile, they are truly one of the new kids on the block. As far as the firm’s history, that’s about as in depth as it gets.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The insurance industry has not been immune to AI’s advancement – whether implementing robo-advisors for investment management (Vanguard and Charles Schwab) or applying AI to insurance and loan underwriting (the Chinese search giant Baidu, which provides enhanced risk assessment capabilities). Assess readiness. Start small.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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Turnaround Agile Operations System 41

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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How To Culture Turnaround Talent 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). The sweet spot can be reached if there is a balance among the four project-manager types: executors, experts, gamblers, and prophets. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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Turnaround Report Company Construction 33

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

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McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

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. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals running longer and earlier, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly and customers happy. Intelligent automation solutions such as these improve CX and drive bottom-line results, reduce average turnaround time, and resolve issues anytime.

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Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. We could analyze the effects of 58 types of investment, on 18 performance measures over time, in 160 academies operating in 18 different regions. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken.

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How To Resources Education Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. Managing Across Cultures. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations]. And being able to tune into a culture and work with different world views stood out.

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. To help make his case, he assembled a brain trust of people with different opinions to help him develop positions on the challenges facing the company.

How To 28

How To Turnaround Banking Meeting 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. He’s building a bridge between challenges he’s met in the past and challenges the hiring manager is currently facing: “Build start-ups’ commercial infrastructures from the ground up—driving long-term growth and profitability.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

They have to prove themselves 10 times over before they’re actually given the opportunity, so their development takes longer.” Throughout the study’s assessments of female CEOs, a combination of four traits and competencies emerged as key to their success: courage, risk-taking, resilience, and managing ambiguity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership. Yodle’s developer teams typically worked on a number of rapid projects that require easy coordination and the visualization of timelines and tasks. courtesy of HLW International.

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 38

Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A wiki is a knowledge management system that: Is digital and Is updated and edited by its own audience. But given the above (growing volume of information), you as the CEO or manager can't update all information yourself. The turnaround time can easily be days instead of minutes. The most common example of a wiki is Wikipedia.

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Company How To Tools Process Improvement 52

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32

BCG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Shaving one minute off the time each aircraft is on the ground between flights can save $5 million to $10 million a year in freed aircraft time and hidden costs across the operation. No other aspect of an airline’s operations has as broad or as deep an impact on the entire organization.

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Airlines Turnaround Operations Financial 40

1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals starting earlier and running longer, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly. Cloud solutions can also offer real-time knowledge management to provide more relevant and consistent answers that are desperately needed during the holidays.

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Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Assess candidates against industry benchmarks, valid indicators of executive potential, and the CEO profiles you’ve developed.

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Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 32

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? 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.

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Research Study Education Recruiting 28