Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Let’s look at some examples. Transformation and turnaround leader specialized in building teams, measurement systems, and driving results at distressed and growth companies alike, with a focus on the middle market. Translation: turnaround expert. We think we need to restructure to better serve our new market segments.” “We

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

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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. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Specialised Consulting.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

One example is when the New York School’s system hired them to boost the efficiency of their school bus network, which they did, saving the city $12M. This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. Turnaround and Restructuring. Practice Areas.

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The Fearless Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The final question is, “What is the turnaround to that thought and is it just as true or even truer?” The turnaround thought would be, ‘They just might be interested in meeting with me.’ And in fact, it’s not hard to find a few examples where I’ve reached out to a past client and they were very interested in meeting with me.” .

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, a company that needs to update its computer systems might seek advice from IT consultants. Turnarounds. An example from 2014 occurred when McKinsey poached two partners from AlixPartners, one of the world’s best-known restructuring firms. Expert Knowledge.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study. The result: wasted time and unnecessary frustration. SOURCE Michael Watkins. ©

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Rod Burkert

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you have a group you want to educate and market to or a product or service you want to promote and sell to, webinars are the best way to reach them. They gushed about the quality of the work, the quick turnaround, and of course, the extraordinary pricing. In case you missed last week: Thinking of hosting your own webinars?

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

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 An example: IT. billion in revenue in 2009. McKinsey research in 2011 found that 58% of U.S.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For example, if your CSF is improving service quality, you might use KPIs like average resolution time, first-time fix rate, or customer satisfaction scores to understand how you’re performing in this area. Market trends? How long does it take to bring those solutions to market? The bottom line? Retain talent?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. The directness of those statements may surprise you.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

Let me provide two examples so you can see the PARADE Method in action. EXAMPLE #1: The date was November 22, 2000 for XYZ company -- one of the leading start companies in the eCommerce software services market. The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. and to do it fast. We also had no spares in stock. *

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below). Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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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. Ries, coauthor of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing , gives clear examples from a variety of industries and demonstrates how crucial focus can be. YouTube Video Summary: 9.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

One competitive edge John’s clients have in pursuit of a business acquisition is they are prepared for the competitive purchase environment presently found in the middle market. Will Rogers famously said, “You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression”. The Pacific Northwest is a small community.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

I dubbed it “contact marketing,” and found it to be a surprisingly effective marketing technique. What exactly is contact marketing? It’s a fusion of marketing and selling, employing specific campaigns to connect with specific C-level executives and top decision makers. Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

There are several reasons for recent sales force job cuts: Shifting market dynamics are one cause, including changing customer needs, customer consolidation, new buying channels, and slowing market growth. Changing company strategies is another, including new strategic product/market priorities and shifts to e-commerce.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. Yes, “ leading by example ” is essential. Machine learning, for example, is now as integral to Microsoft’s new value vocabulary as great code.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Insight center.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Look closely, and you’ll find that most companies have stretched their brands and product portfolios to customers and markets in which they are undifferentiated and profits are weak. For example, large biopharma companies compete in many categories and tend to accumulate an array of follower positions.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

This company, which stretched into all sorts of industries and markets, offering numerous strategic challenges, should have been an ideal training ground for executives. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Let’s look at how to do this by analyzing the resume and LinkedIn profile of a startup marketing executive. Here’s one of his bullet points: “Multi-year brand awareness-building and marketing campaigns contributed to 23X customer acquisition and >90% YOY customer retention.” ” Résumé Story.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

An example is The North Face, which is experimenting with its Fluid Expert Personal Shopper tool, powered by IBM’s Watson, to provide customers with a more intuitive search experience through a natural language capability.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

With the media, stock markets, and social media going crazy over the topic, I spent a lot of time digging into the data to develop my own conclusions. It’s still useful to help make sense of the problem. Living in the Seattle metro area in Washington state, much of my attention has been focused on the coronavirus. No big deal.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These include manufacturing, budgeting, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service. For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. Take, for example, News Corporation getting into the exciting internet space by buying MySpace, or Microsoft into smartphones with Nokia, or HP into software and services with Autonomy — all written off virtually in their entirety.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. ” Let’s go back to the IBM example. Consider, for example, open enrollment at the John F. market partners to GE) can take advantage of the unique GE learning experience.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

One example of the cause vs. effect mini-game is: Disease Diagnosis: The animals in the ecosystem are being wiped out by a mysterious disease. For example, when working with clients who have suffered a decline in profits, it is important to recognize there is a mathematical relationship between profits, sales, and expenses.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

For example, companies can apply advanced analytic techniques, such as propensity-to-buy modeling and micromarket targeting, to help sales support staff do deal qualification much more efficiently. Sales support is critical.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2016

The New York times has the best turnaround of the bunch, three days so I could have used this earlier. In footnotes to his January 8 article Three Theories Of Donald Trump’s Rise Silver expressed belief that " Trump’s chances are about half of what betting markets say they are. They did not publish it. So have many others.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. They volunteer their time and energy in communities where GE has plants and offices.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled "A better monetary system for Iceland". Few indeed have suggested leaving the decision to the market. Would we be twice as rich? Obviously not.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

For example, we’ve seen an explosion of open office layouts, sn part because openness, transparency, and collaboration are some of the attributes companies strive for today. Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. 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.

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