Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. The Hackett Group. Parthenon Group. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. Applied Value Group. Address: Applied Value Group.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

At the Big 3 (Bain, Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey), you can expect travel 50-75% of the time. In addition, you’ll have limited exposure across the company to other groups, departments, etc – less ability to network across the company. Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. 3 SKILL DEVELOPMENT. 4 NETWORKING.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

When presentations expert Nancy Duarte and I analyzed successful change initiatives, or movements , in business and society, we found that their leaders invested a lot of time in early listening tours and then empathically and systematically articulated their vision to one stakeholder group after another — even in the face of pressure to act.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. Sällström mapped outside industries, looking for people with pertinent skills. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. As a group, the largest U.S. kevin phillips/Getty Images. These costs are significantly higher for U.S.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

The acquirer wants to or has to double sales in five years, in a competitive market, and exceed industry trends (a trend where whiskey is on the upswing, and which could change at any time) to cover their debt. Sears was in the headlines because they are running out of cash as their turnaround is failing.

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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. Just look at the leaders of ANZ, the global banking group headquartered in Melbourne. More complex assignments will.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

“I just need to get a handle on this new industry” Believe it or not, when I was younger I was interested in keeping fit (I still have the body of a 32 year old obese man). It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. One of the senior executives commented: “It sent a great message to the group.

Management 40

Management Pharmaceuticals Groups Turnaround 40

Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

The sample includes senior and junior managers and individual contributors from a range of industries in corporate America; my aim was to statistically identify work habits that correlate with higher performance.). It’s better to try to get people to speak up in a group meeting than to revert to one-on-one discussions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

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. The multitude of projects drove the company in numerous directions at the same time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

A company turnaround focuses on costs and can often be done through financial reengineering and cost cutting measures. The LCP is the curator of this group and may even specify which tools and systems portfolio companies should use. Once a firm is acquired, the LCP often facilitates the transformation process.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. From 1993 to 2003, according to the company’s current CEO, Knudstorp, the Lego Group lost value at an average rate of 300,000 euros per day.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” In the fall of 1981, [I challenged] the Elfun Society, an internal management club at GE… It was a networking group for white-collar types.” ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

The growth of the industry tells us so. One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. A brilliant engineer we know had been promoted three times in four years, and by the time he was nearly 30 he was a group president at a U.S. HBR Staff/Image Source/Getty Images. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

” The tech industry’s combination of high-velocity competition, complexity, global talent, and interdependence among rivals makes it a truly unique environment, requiring a distinct set of leadership skills. This definition of tech differentiates organizations like Google, Facebook or Uber, from Walmart, Toyota or The Taj Group.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

” Focusing this type of mindset shift and behavior change must move beyond a core group of leaders and instead elevate the full leadership cadre around the prominence of digital and its relevance and meaning for how leaders lead. Beyond-the-Classroom Experiences. In his own words, “it was a truly formative experience.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

A private equity group led by TPG bought the company in 2007; at the time SCA had suffered more than four straight quarters of declining profits. This July Founders Equity sold OSI to Jordan Industries. Consider the case of Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA), a provider of surgical facilities based in Deerfield, Illinois.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Prior to landing the top job, female CEOs in the study worked in a slightly higher number of roles, functions, companies, and industries than men leading companies of a comparable size. In essence, the women worked harder and longer to get to the same place. Some women expressed frustration about the delay.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Migration Management: The candidate chooses the migration path of a group of animals with limited resources. You’re provided a history of all pricing changes from all companies in the industry (including your client). How do you produce the fastest turnaround time for new orders given a certain number of employees in a work shift?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

“If you’re entering a turnaround situation,” you need to be prepared to “inject new ideas” and make some tough decisions right away, Watkins says. ” Be positive. You don’t want to “imply that you’ve see it done better at other places and now you’re back to fix a mess.”

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

” Bertolini and his team studied the industry and concluded that a reasonable target was no more than 6% EPS. He developed a three-year plan for his turnaround vision, which was translated into annual and quarterly operating plans, and biquarterly responsibilities for his executive team.

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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.

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