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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

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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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Turnarounds. In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

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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Why you need a company wiki (and how to build it effectively)

Asamby Consulting

A learning organization If you don't want to do all process improvement and development in your company, you need to build a so-called learning organization: Your employees have a structured process and tool set to formalize and document what they learn and make it available to everyone. Asynchronous, on-demand access will help a lot here.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. E-discovery software provider.

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Executives on Demand: What are part-time CEOs and why does every business need one?

SkillQuo

Now, the on-demand executive phenomenon has truly spread across the world and according to American consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the UK market for on-demand executives is one of the world’s most developed, accounting for $1.8 On-demand CEOs are not exclusive to American business, though. billion in revenue in 2009.

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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. It also delivers specialist operational, consulting and industry expertise to management and investors seeking to accelerate performance and maximise value across corporate and investment lifecycles. London W1J 6BD.