Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

They are known for doing high-level assessments of their clients’ business situation, and providing strategies to increase profit or growth by entering new markets, launching new products, or making acquisitions. They are assigned to service areas, industry verticals, or both. Internal Corporate Strategy Consulting.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

This Firm Profile started as an email from Sean, asking if we could write on Alvarez & Marsal, “The Turnaround Guys”. The firm’s first turnaround client was the household brand, Timex Corporation. This added to the firm’s already glowing reputation as they continued to diversify their services and enter new markets.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. You’ll need to set expectations, identify practices to bring those expectations to life, and then measure and reinforce your civility initiative.

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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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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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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

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. Restructuring is a niche service which requires specialized knowledge and industry experience. Catalyst for Change. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Entering a New Market. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. Toyota has invented a car with incredible durability, it can be driven a thousand times further than cars currently on the market before needing to be serviced. Estimate the size of the global market.

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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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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. Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Rod Burkert

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

If you have a group you want to educate and market to or a product or service you want to promote and sell to, webinars are the best way to reach them. They gushed about the quality of the work, the quick turnaround, and of course, the extraordinary pricing. In case you missed last week: Thinking of hosting your own webinars?

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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. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. But take heart! 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. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. Find the leaders on the industry “best” lists (best chief marketing officer, chief information officer, etc.),

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Buzzsprout

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Every monthly plan comes with unlimited podcast hosting with Buzzsprout and a guaranteed 48-hour turnaround time. Cashflow Podcasting | $1,199 per month Cashflow Podcasting offers premium podcast partner and production packages and comes highly recommended by some of the industry's top podcasters.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Alpha Financial Markets Consulting. Founded in 2003, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting is based in the UK and also has offices in Luxembourg, Paris and NY. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. BearingPoint.

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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. Reuters reports China's Annual Steel Consumption Drops for First Time in Three Decades. percent to a record 822.7

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. The Turnaround.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Over this period, Apple would prove the cynics wrong and dazzle the world with its groundbreaking innovations, masterful marketing and against-the-grain approach. PR played a huge role in this success.

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 6, 2015

Suntory will have to outpace industrywide growth in its two biggest markets, the U.S. and Japan, and expand into new markets.” This takes me back to what must be about 10 years ago when Seattle supermarket chain and institution Larry’s Market went under. Nobody in my market! They leveraged the deal too highly.

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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. kevin phillips/Getty Images. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

Many industries have had to downsize sales forces. There are several reasons for recent sales force job cuts: Shifting market dynamics are one cause, including changing customer needs, customer consolidation, new buying channels, and slowing market growth. sales reps following an industry-wide downsizing trend.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

A&M is an independent global professional services firm which provides leadership, problem-solving and value-creation services to companies across the industry spectrum. GIA provides strategic market intelligence and advisory services anywhere around the world. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Causeway Bay.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

I dubbed it “contact marketing,” and found it to be a surprisingly effective marketing technique. What exactly is contact marketing? It’s a fusion of marketing and selling, employing specific campaigns to connect with specific C-level executives and top decision makers. Elizabeth Grace Saunders.

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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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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It is an approach I developed that is tailored for answering these questions in job interviews for management consulting, as well as interviews for senior executive positions in industry. EXAMPLE #1: The date was November 22, 2000 for XYZ company -- one of the leading start companies in the eCommerce software services market.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Volvo’s turnaround over the last decade offers a great example. Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. For years, Volvo was a brand stuck between a rock and a hard place.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

The private equity industry has a clear understanding of the importance of the medium term. The beauty of the PE industry model is that it does not succumb to the travails of the short term or the dreams of the future. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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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. After earning a degree in industrial engineering, he joined Techint, a multinational conglomerate with headquarters in Milan. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

In phase one (buy and sell), PE investors looked for the equivalent of a “fixer-upper house” — a dilapidated company in a good industry that could be purchased at a discount and, after the business equivalent of some fresh paint and new appliances, resold for a profit. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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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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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). Within Colgate-Palmolive Doug Meyer had steadily moved through a classic marketing career and was approached about the job.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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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. In our research we have found that leadership has a 10 to 15% impact on financial performance and a 25 to 30% impact on market valuation. Once a firm is acquired, the LCP often facilitates the transformation process.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

No one who listens to Alan Mulally describe Ford’s remarkable turnaround escapes his rendition of One Ford , One Team , and Working Together. While the incumbent customer lexicon wasn’t abandoned, it neither drove nor literally defined how marketers and innovators talked about the people they were serving.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

By looking at detailed sales data from 40 companies in technology-related industries, we have identified guidelines for the optimal amount and type of sales support and management. This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. hbr staff/stan honda/Getty Images.

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