The Consultants Peer Group
APRIL 3, 2023
In 1973, I was fired from my first job mainly for not being able to meet deadlines in a timely fashion. In other words, just because someone might be your “boss ”doesn’t mean that there cannot be a negotiated understanding of what needs to be done and the timeline in which it should be accomplished, which is the basis for accountability.
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. Paul Akers has done amazing work leading lean at FastCap in just this fashion.
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freshminds
MARCH 5, 2018
There are four steps which will greatly increase your chances of success by helping you to structure your answer in an intelligent and commercially aware fashion. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds. Here we will focus on the consulting type case studies.
Harvard Business
MARCH 12, 2018
Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. He and Samuelsson looked to the fashion industry, hired craftsmen, and shook up the managerial ranks by hiring executives who had conceived and executed significant strategic shifts at bigger companies.
Harvard Business
JULY 18, 2016
Doug identified “Inspiring Trust” as his number one mission in his 10-year turnaround of Campbell Soup Company, where his efforts resulted in cumulative shareholder returns in the top tier of the global food industry, and among the highest measured employee engagement levels in the Fortune 500, particularly with his leadership team.
MishTalk
OCTOBER 20, 2013
Flipping houses went out of fashion around 2008, along with flip phones and sub-prime mortgages. What’s behind these quick turnarounds? But real estate data shows the practice is on the upswing — among million-dollar homes. At the low end, where flipping might actually make some economic sense, flipping is down.
CaseInterview.com
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
This will allow you to move through the creation of a system in a linear fashion. How do you produce the fastest turnaround time for new orders given a certain number of employees in a work shift? OR start at the top with a part of the system that accepts input but doesn’t generate output (e.g., So a bottom-up approach works.
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