Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

These firms also use a generalist model, meaning that consultants tend not to develop a specialization until they become managers. Service areas – or functional areas – can include strategy, operations, technology, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, among others. They are assigned to service areas, industry verticals, or both.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 11, 2014

I like to say (especially to business buyers with stars in their eyes) that, “turnarounds make headlines because they are rare.” Here are five: Great people with depth of management, above average compensation (to attract better employees), and a good culture. If you’re the owner of one of these, congratulations.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Finally, senior management may hire consultants as an independent second pair of eyes, to help justify critical decisions and strategic choices.

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Consulting Case Interview Turnaround Analysis 88

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They entered the financial disputes business with the acquisition of Klick, Kent and Allen, Inc. FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Records management. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Interim Management.

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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. They usually need you to understand the rationale behind financial modelling e.g. DCF, LBO etc. Mike Okeowo.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

in Management Consulting. Value Partners Management Consulting. Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Definitions.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Shaving one minute off the time each aircraft is on the ground between flights can save $5 million to $10 million a year in freed aircraft time and hidden costs across the operation. No other aspect of an airline’s operations has as broad or as deep an impact on the entire organization.

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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. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. as a result], when new issues come up, they are going to revert to what they know.

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Turnaround Fashion Training Training 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

The company missed the trend towards touchscreen smart phones and has fallen into serious financial difficulty. Operations. A leading financial services company is trying to reduce operating expenditures. Turnarounds. How can we regain market share, and return Blackberry to its former glory? Competitive Response.

Consulting 60

Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

in Management Consulting. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. Cedar Management Consulting. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.

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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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SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

These individuals range from executives with proven company records to interim managers, and these so called ‘supertemps’ have established their position as useful personnel. So, why has this phenomenon gripped the business world and are their proven benefits for businesses? McKinsey research in 2011 found that 58% of U.S.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Financial Services. In fact, in terms of firms we profile, they are truly one of the new kids on the block. Cargo & Logistics. Human Capital. Cost Reduction.

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1 to 1

JUNE 1, 2021

It streamlines operations and frees customer-facing employees up to focus on more meaningful interactions with customers. With unattended RPA, software with artificial intelligence and machine learning handles common, high-volume, repetitive tasks such as invoice processing, claims management, and patient scheduling.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. This third phase has led to large private equity organizations governing their assets in a unique way.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. We could analyze the effects of 58 types of investment, on 18 performance measures over time, in 160 academies operating in 18 different regions. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth.

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McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. Second, get out of the bubble. To break through the isolation, you need to periodically escape. But there are other, less dramatic techniques, too.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a recent survey , 70% of respondents said that CEOs focus too much on short-term financial results, and nearly 60% said that they don’t focus enough on positive long-term impact. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009.

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