Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

My company represents self-employed professionals across the country, and over the last seven years I have interviewed, coached, or worked with more than 200 independent management consultants. Translation: change management for IT projects. Translation: turnaround expert. What was the industry? Who was the client?

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Bankers do some for roadshows, due diligence, etc but spend 90% of their time in one office until you’re partner-level (this is investment banking; you can expect more travel in private equity and investment management). Relationship with coworkers, managers, and firm. This is less discussed but equally important. 4 NETWORKING.

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Banking Boston Consulting Group Consulting Management 272

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Consultants can provide management with the expertise needed to address specific business problems. The benefit of bringing in specialist consultants is that they are likely to have experience solving similar problems and an understanding of industry best practice. Turnarounds. Independent Advice. Catalyst for Change.

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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

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

decline in Industrial Production deceptive. In a deceptive headline, industrial production fell 0.2 High-tech industries, where production has been flat all year, also rose 0.7 Gains in production, however, would have to extend through year-end to turnaround what has been a weak, export-hit year for the manufacturing sector.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

During the past five years, industrial use of artificial intelligence (AI) has risen exponentially across industries. At the same time, front-runners across industries are partnering with technology companies to identify game-changing business solutions that can be achieved through AI.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Industrial production shocked to the downside this morning with a drop of 0.6%, the most in 3.5 November was another weak month for the industrial economy, in part reflecting unusually warm temperatures that are driving down utility output. Industrial production came in at the Econoday low forecast, down a very sharp 0.6

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself. Dispute, litigation and investigations services for construction industry.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

After expending considerable effort on formulating a strategy, most executives would like to see their company’s strategic plans fully executed. However, compliance with the strategy doesn’t necessarily correlate directly to performance. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Insight center.

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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. Strategy Consulting : tend to use “strategic” type case studies (more details below).

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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). The same basic point applies to new managers joining an organization. It offered a ‘turnaround’ challenge. Talk softer. Be less blunt.

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Management Pharmaceuticals Groups Turnaround 40

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. Industries. All of your clients are in the same field, so the chances of interacting with people outside of the industry are greatly reduced. Career Path.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Buzzsprout

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Every monthly plan comes with unlimited podcast hosting with Buzzsprout and a guaranteed 48-hour turnaround time. You can schedule a free strategy call to get a custom quote based on your own podcasting goals. You'll also get a 14-day money-back guarantee just in case you aren't happy with the final product!

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Productivity Company Engineering Turnaround 52

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Pricing Strategy. Growth Strategy. They want to develop a growth strategy for the next five years. CanadaCo, the largest discount retailer in Canada, currently holds the dominant market share in the industry. Turnarounds. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers.

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

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. This realistic, in-the-trenches guide offers six strategies that, when combined, give you a step-by-step approach for reaching entrepreneurial success. Conquer the Chaos shows you how.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The challenge is that you’re competing against every individual in your industry who wants to be a high performer. There are two types of experiences that will accelerate your development — functional experiences and management experiences. They allow you to prove that you’re highly competent at what you do.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2022

If you want to control the deal look for a turnaround business and roll the dice. Especially when the number two customer, about 25%, had been brought over two or three years prior when the company hired their general manager from a competitor. Do customers like the company or the general manager? Make yourself expendable.

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Banking Turnaround Finance Financial 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In a PWC survey of more than 2,000 global executives, managers, and employees, only 54% of respondents said their change initiatives succeeded — and the most frequently cited problem (by 65% of those surveyed) was change fatigue. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success.

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MishTalk

MAY 14, 2015

China's apparent crude steel consumption fell for the first time in three decades in 2014, data from an industry association showed, a further indication of how the country's economic slowdown is hurting industrial demand. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. CEO Eddie Lampert’s alienating management style and lack of retail prowess has prompted a mass exodus of executives and has left the company with few leaders who really care about the brand. The company says it is taking action to ensure its future viability.

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Turnaround Retail Airlines Apparel 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Many industries have had to downsize sales forces. sales reps following an industry-wide downsizing trend. sales reps following an industry-wide downsizing trend. Changing company strategies is another, including new strategic product/market priorities and shifts to e-commerce. japatino/Getty Images.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Illinois’ lack of jobs growth, especially in blue-collar industries, has driven more and more Illinoisans to dependency on government, while residents of the other Great Lakes states join the ranks of the employed and leave the food-stamps program. Bruce Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda, which addresses Illinois’ top economic reform needs.

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1 to 1

JUNE 1, 2021

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. When looking at the benefits of attended vs. unattended RPA, consider a strategy that uses – and brings out the best in – both.

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Software Turnaround Automotive ROI 26

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. As managers deal with delivering short-term results to keep the stock price high and leaders evangelize on the long-term future of the organization, the medium term is all but forgotten. It is pleasingly limitless.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. But it’s also true for more traditional M&A, where CHROs are too often sidelined, rather than being central to driving strategy.

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Talent Engineering Case Interview Turnaround 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

During the Immelt era, the dominant mode had been of strategy by way of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (MA&D), including most recently the disastrous merger of the GE oil and gas business with Baker Hughes in 2016. In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve is a video game in which candidates problem-solve to manage some form of ecological situation. The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. Time management is certainly a factor. Each assessment consists of two mini-games from three potential categories.

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Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

I led the global management appraisal practice of our own executive search firm, Egon Zehnder. Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. What we found was an incredible paradox.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Align the board on future CEO profiles that are driven by business strategy.

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Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

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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Talent Real Estate Financial Operations 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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Methodologies Agile Metrics Exercises 28

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. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. He quickly recognized that he had to institute a new strategy and culture.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2017

The idea of boomerang employees — workers who voluntarily leave a job at an organization and then rejoin that same organization at a later date — is gaining more and more acceptance from hiring managers and in the labor force. She came back as a director of media strategy and content. ” Be positive. ” Onboard.

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Company Case Study Case Studies B2C 41

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Keeping it simple, with five core strategies in his long-term plan, helped people remember his message.

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