Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

They are known for doing high-level assessments of their clients’ business situation, and providing strategies to increase profit or growth by entering new markets, launching new products, or making acquisitions. These firms also use a generalist model, meaning that consultants tend not to develop a specialization until they become managers.

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Prudent Pedal

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re a managing partner, practice leader, sales leader, or chief administrative officer in a professional services firm, you probably have responsibility for “managing” marketing. If this is you, you may be feeling a little uneasy as we approach that dreaded time of the year for most managers—annual reviews.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. fusion development)? Can you automate manual processes?

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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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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing.

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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. Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t.

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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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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. New Managers: Almost all New Managers suffer from ‘joining anxiety’ and want to do things quickly. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. Prior to Meyers’ appointment, a new commercial for Bayer Aspirin had been developed.

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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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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. In the same way, I believe that you have to develop the organizational muscles required for continuous improvement through small steps.

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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. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

How should it price this product? 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. Turnarounds. What factors do they need to take into account? Pricing Strategy. It’s focusing on supermarkets. Growth Strategy.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Jerry Fletcher

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I’ll bet neither have managed to tap you on the shoulder so far. Not long after that I was trying to convince the man who has now been a client for a decade that moving from doing turnarounds as a CEO or COO to Leadership and Management Consulting was significantly different and that he did not have a team in place to handle the shift.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Share » Connect » Blog: Consulting and Organizational Development. Instead, I’ve been more successful with, e.g., ”turnaround specialist” or “business developer.” How to Manage Resistance in Consulting — Part 1 of 3: What is Resistance? Translate This. Library Blogs Home.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Retailers will face customers supercharged by digital centricity who are fighting product shortages, higher prices, busy schedules, and holiday craziness. New products, data breaches, recalls, and inclement weather are just a few examples of the good, bad, and ugly of Black Friday shopping. Black Friday shopping is stressful.

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

It only takes one ineffective leader to lower productivity and increase turnover in your organization and these two problems can cost you thousands of dollars if left unchecked. Many leaders are unaware of the negative impact they are having on the people and productivity around them. Administer a 360 Leadership Development Assessment.

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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. It's a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place. But take heart! Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

in Management Consulting. Value Partners Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Definitions. Helpful Links. List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong 2011.

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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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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Of the many surveys our firm has conducted, we have learned that people may join an organizations,but they absolutely leave because of the relationship they have with their managers. Most often, they’re going to need additional help in developing the strategies and actions to make a positive turnaround.

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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 20, 2016

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. 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. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Without the breathing room to invest in new equipment and technologies, smaller manufacturers may be up to 40% less productive than large companies—a gap so sizable that it drags down the entire sector’s performance. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs. These costs are significantly higher for U.S.

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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. Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. If we want our companies to last, we must excel at the “ Three Box Solution.”

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

The unprecedented product and human demands that came out of the pandemic tested retailers’ resources. Mishaps like delays, data breaches, product recalls, and inclement weather will continue to effect retail surge volumes. Remember, if a retail journey starts slow, your customers will go elsewhere.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. How talent management is changing. The former are technologies.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. Not seeking CEOs who value talent development.

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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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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.,

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Whatever they ask for, you deliver with your best team and best turnaround — even if it’s unreasonable or unprofitable. But a better role for senior executives is to support the salespeople and managers to hold the line on price and protect value. ” You can’t afford to lose them.

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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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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

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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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation. Time management is certainly a factor. Migration Management: The candidate chooses the migration path of a group of animals with limited resources. What Is McKinsey's Digital Assessment Game?

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