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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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Retail & Consumer Products. As a group, FTI has to work to build a corporate culture that hits all areas of the business. Private Equity.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Monitor Group. Seabury Group. Applied Value Group. Address: Applied Value Group. Address: The Boston Consulting Group. Address: Hay Group. Hay, Hay Group operates in 84 offices across 48 countries. Alvarez & Marsal. Bain & Company.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

I see a lot of technologies that could boost a lot of businesses, but the teams selling the products aren’t always focused on the needs of the venue or customers…they are too focused on the tech. There is a lesson for all of us in Barnes and Nobles’ turnaround: “If you want to sell music, you have to love those songs.”. Zoe Scaman.

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Confessions of a Consultant

APRIL 30, 2017

While it’s not an exact science, see what you make of the following story… Doug Meyer: In North America, a pharmaceutical company manufactured and marketed Consumer Health Products. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. One of the senior executives commented: “It sent a great message to the group.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

As a group, the largest U.S. Without the breathing room to invest in new equipment and technologies, smaller manufacturers may be up to 40% less productive than large companies—a gap so sizable that it drags down the entire sector’s performance. In some instances, the end results were firm closures and lost jobs.

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McKinsey Turnaround Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

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. Just look at the leaders of ANZ, the global banking group headquartered in Melbourne. In sum, none were suitable candidates to succeed the CEO. Learning to Learn.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Box 3: Generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into new products and businesses. ” He continued, “let’s not launch Product X version 2 and instead focus all our efforts on Product Y.” To endure, companies must excel at all three boxes, or their success could be very short-lived.

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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

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this.

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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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

It’s one thing to note a person working solo in an otherwise empty seminar room, or a group of people huddling around someone’s desk because a conference room wasn’t available. Managers note that the fact that people linger there after meetings has increased inter-group learning. courtesy of HLW International.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

As we began our research , we limited our definition of tech companies to those that create technology as a product or service. This definition of tech differentiates organizations like Google, Facebook or Uber, from Walmart, Toyota or The Taj Group. They must deliver on tight timelines, quick turnarounds and short project cycles.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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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. If a client drops off 1,000 documents grouped into ten different categories, it’s a lot of work to read all 1,000 documents. The invasive plant will inevitably win, but the candidate must try to delay it for as long as possible.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2018

When an organization gets a new leader, their productive work slows down substantially , at best, as it adapts to the disruption caused by the changeover. There’s little reason to think we’re about to see a turnaround. High levels of senior executive turnover are difficult for any organization to absorb.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Similar to the advance of “standardized process” in the early 20th century, digital is not just the new product to offer our customers (e.g., Voser was impatient for a new experience which attracted him to ABB and there he learned a whole new level of turnaround leadership. Beyond-the-Classroom Experiences.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. ” For people at Masonite, it’s not just about building doors; it’s about breaking down barriers.

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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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