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. For example what problem was being solved? What was the industry?

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Consulting Turnaround Exercises Technology Implementation 150

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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Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

Industry verticals are centered around specific industries, for example telecom and media, healthcare, industrial and consumer goods, or financial services. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Specialised Consulting. Internal Corporate Strategy Consulting. Final Thoughts.

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Consulting Turnaround Healthcare Deloitte 60

PM Alliance

JANUARY 27, 2023

Ensuring that technology resources are on hand during desk relocations can help address any glitches, particularly when checkerboard moves mean tight turnaround times. Building configurations play a role, with fixed elements—restrooms and hallways, for example—dictating where furniture can be placed.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

If you can balance these two things, for example in your lead generation, you will be having a great year. Benefits include a favorable cost structure, easier access to talent and potentially quicker turnaround / longer coverage of business hours (e.g., Automation and AI can deliver many tasks at better quality and lower cost.

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Small Business Cash Flow Trends Turnaround 52

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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The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, “I can have this back to you on Wednesday.” Here are just some examples of the questions I use to help leaders develop their employees.* This practice gives little room for mutual commitment. When on Wednesday?” the employer may ask. Sometimes you need to keep your mouth shut and let your employees provide the answers.

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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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Consulting McKinsey Turnaround Information Technology 68

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

Consider the example of Nicolas, a regional sales vice president at a medical devices company. For example, Nicolas’s reports needed to be Agenda Setters (setting and communicating goals), Talent Developers (selecting, assessing, and developing people), and Trailblazers (determining and sharing best practices). © HBR.org.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 27, 2021

For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. Ego boosting events These can take on many guises. The common denominator is the combination of public attention and a bit of ego massage. You overlook confidentiality because it feels good.

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Marketing Consulting Ethics Case Interview 75

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. For example, he had one patient begin an exercise program by simply marching in place for one minute in front of the television. then two minutes, then three, etc.

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Rod Burkert

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

They gushed about the quality of the work, the quick turnaround, and of course, the extraordinary pricing. For example, practitioners are providing their Excel valuation and Word report templates to the outsourcing parties who then complete the necessary work to those specs. And if you’re new here, welcome aboard. This is what we do!

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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. Given the political environment, I chose Option B.".

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Case Interview Interviews Resumes Retail 81

Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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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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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

One example in the WSJ article was about Autohaus Ochs GmbH, a Volkswagen dealership. My final example (from the article) is about the Brockhaus Group. Once stagnation hits it may not be a turnaround but it sure is a fixer-upper, and that is something all sellers need to avoid. And they’re coming to play in Germany now.

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Small Business Turnaround Journal Sales 40

Peter Stark

JUNE 9, 2020

Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford, is probably the greatest example of someone who leads a company without technical expertise. Mulally proved that prediction wrong by leading one of the most successful corporate turnarounds in our lifetime. Mulally spent his whole career building airplanes at Boeing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. Anderson provides another good example. Hope rekindled. Energy returned.”

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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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Peter Stark

OCTOBER 13, 2019

When it comes to toxic work environments and who causes them, we’ve concluded the majority of examples revolve around senior management or a boss, but it can be a peer, co-worker, or even customers. For example, we recently interviewed an employee who described her work environment as toxic.

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Survey Turnaround Leadership Interviews 38

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. Like KPIs, critical success factors play a key role in setting goals and driving improvements – but they’re far from interchangeable.

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

In fact, ‘supertemps’ – highly qualified freelance individuals who work on short-term contracts for companies have been growing not just in the C-suite, but in many various business departments – some carry out niche, specific jobs, like managing large turnarounds or sales while some just fill a much needed managerial space.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

A transaction can be lost by a business buyer if a timely turnaround time on a letter of intent, preliminary due diligence, or an assessment of financing capability is not possible. The sale came as a surprise to him. Poor practices regarding confidentiality can also damage a business buyer’s relationship with a business brokerage firm.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010. A social media site that allows its users to visually share their interests with each other (and with advertisers, who sponsor content and pay for user data).

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Advertising Turnaround Resources Comparison 50

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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Enterprise Turnaround Leadership Examples 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

For example, when James Wolfensohn first became president of the World Bank, in 1995, he went on fact-finding trips to developing countries to understand the kinds of projects that the bank was doing. Several years ago, for example, I worked with a senior executive who was competing for the top job at his firm.

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How To Turnaround Banking Meeting 28

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. Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

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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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

Fatality Rate % x # of Patients = Total # of Deaths Example 1: If 10% of people die x 100 patients = 10 deaths Example 2: If 1% of people die x 1 billion patients = 10 million deaths The key metric that is overlooked by a lot of people is how many patients there will be as the virus progresses. No big deal.

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Analysis Case Interview Interviews System 144

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

For example, I’m a cartoonist, and I’ve found that my cartoons can touch upon all of these markers in a very personal way. But his core business is turnaround consulting. We all want more success, recognition, and income, but we also want to do the best job we can and leave a mark. Dan Waldschmidt’s swords.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. For example, its members asked why every design change in a car required a dozen signatures and managed to cut that number in half. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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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

MAY 30, 2016

Comedy can be particularly hard to “get” if you’re not from the originating culture, but that’s exactly why it shines a light on how different cultures tick (“The Office,” which was syndicated in some 80 countries but had localized versions created in eight, is the classic example ).

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Culture Turnaround Interviews Hotels 28

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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Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

To create such a climate, lead by example (“Let me just throw out a risky idea…”); support those who try (“I really appreciate you suggesting…”); and sanction those who ridicule others (“I don’t want that kind of language here…”). Take the contrarian view.

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Meeting How To Study Turnaround 44

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.

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