Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

As such, AlixPArtners is known for being packed full of industry and consulting experts and the firm’s managing directors have been called upon by several leading publications such as Bloomberg, WSJ, the Financial Times, CNBC, and Fox Business. Industries. ALIXPARTNERS INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING . Effectiveness. Automotive.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

JANUARY 20, 2014

However, after the ENRON scandal erupted, SOX restructured the consulting industry, and BearingPoint battled to find its own way in the world, the firm struggled with its independence from its Big 4 parent. Now, BearingPoint is operated as a Netherlands-based partnership which consisted of 120 partners in 14 countries throughout Europe.

BearingPoint 139

BearingPoint Interviews Oliver Wyman Capgemini 139

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. IT Operations. Supply Chain and Operations Processes. SAP Operational Excellence. Industries. IT Strategy.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Deloitte 100

Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

During the recruiting process, it was interesting to hear consultants talk about how much of their job is about conducting learning activities. This is learning that takes place at a third-party learning center rented out or operated by the practice. It may also just be learning about how the practice operates.

Consulting 68

Consulting Operations Recruiting Recruitment 68

Management Consulted

MAY 21, 2015

T-Mobile, an American operating entity of a German company, is the smallest big player in U.S. Power and Associates, a global marketing-information-services firm, as the highest in retail store satisfaction amongst its competitors consecutively for the the past four years and also the highest for customer care two years consecutively.

Wireless 100

Wireless Culture Telecommunications Interviews 100

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

You created not just a firm, but an industry we are all now proud of. He began by helping firms recruit competent executives, acquire new customers, and establish conducive office space. After 2 years, he recruited 2 friends from Chicago and formed the Business Research and Development Company with $500 borrowed from the bank.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

JANUARY 15, 2017

Working in a wide variety of industries ranging from Consumer Goods to Life Sciences, Kalypso is establishing itself as a player to be noticed in the tech consulting niche. Currently, Kalypso LP operates as a subsidiary of Palladius Inc. Industries. KALYPSO ORGANIZATION. The firm is headquartered in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview Intellectual Property 100

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier. The Future of Financial Services.

Financial 33

Financial Industry Banking Talent 33

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC.

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Retailers, grocery stores, and restaurants launched curbside pick-up. Resilient organizations, ones that excel at change, operate as a team of teams. Build Agility.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2015

Alex Formstone is a Principal in Marakon ’s London office, and heads up recruiting in the UK for graduates and MBAs. I recently had the good fortune to talk briefly with Alex about his career, Marakon and its recruitment process. Tom: Did your work in financial services relate to the payments industry at all?

Case Interview 60

Case Interview Interviews Recruiting Recruitment 60

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Now known to be THE best sourcing, procurement and operations consulting firm in the world, A.T. Kearney becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EDS in September, nearly doubling in size and vastly expanding its industry expertise and information technology capabilities. Operations. KEARNEY INTERVIEW AND CULTURE. Practice Areas.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. We found that sustainable and deforestation-free practices created significant financial benefits for all players in the industry’s value chain. of revenues).

Methodologies 28

Methodologies How To Case Study Case Studies 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2018

The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. Robots are improving productivity and margins in retail warehouses and fulfillment centers. Rio Tinto, the global mining-and-metals company, is exploring how digital technologies can automate mine-to-port operations. Alistair Berg/Getty Images.

Management 28

Management Retail Operations Data 28

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

in business, clearly have a love for aviation and were a professional in the aviation industry from 2006 to 2010. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Yeah, sure.

Consulting 125

Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

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.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Although directors in certain industries are more aware of the threat of disruption, the widespread lack of board-level engagement in innovation processes could be a major blind spot and a potential liability. Director Recruitment and Skills. Again, we found differences among industries. Setting Priorities.

Telecommunications 30

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 30

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Combining their industry experience, the pair were forerunners in what became a specialty area in professional services: turnaround management, corporate restructuring and operational performance improvement for companies and stakeholders. Industries. ALVAREZ & MARSAL INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Practice Areas.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Turnaround Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. billion, including most major firms in the manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and retail industries. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities.

Company 28

Company Operations Data Benchmarking 28

Management Consulted

MAY 10, 2015

The Hay Group carried on growing for the next 20 years, expanding its operations and its global reach. Industries . Retail services. Most tend toward jobs as an HR consultant (independent or a larger firm) or operations manager. HAY GROUP INTERVIEWS AND RECRUITING. Building effective organizations. Communications.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions. will grow to U.S. $5

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Consulting 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. The team was structured to operate like a startup, with a particular focus on user research, feedback, and a commitment to lean operations.

Media 33

Media Fashion Agile Sales 33

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

We’ve reviewed locations, employee counts, industry focus, and reputation of multiple firms in and around the Boston area – and this article will help you make life-changing decisions. You are able to (or have to – depending on how you look at it) work with industry engineers and consultants.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In retailing, leaders worry about customer retention and dollar per square foot. Changes at the surface create small, local differences.

Industry 28

Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy 28

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

They operate platforms that make it easy and efficient for participants to connect and exchange value. Instead, they recruit participants, and then sell each group of participants access to the other group of participants. Westfield Malls operates shopping malls that help retailers and shoppers to get together.

Operations 28

Operations B2B Groups Software 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. Digital native upstarts are gutting traditional industries one at a time, leveraging scalable technology and participative networks.

How To 29

How To Metrics Pharmaceuticals Hotels 29

Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. Julian Watt/Getty Images.

Company 28

Company Talent Accenture Transportation 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. He has accumulated a unique mix of deep knowledge of the organization, the industry, and how to work with Stefano Pessina, the company’s executive chairman.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

British retailer ASOS also maintains a popular Instagram account. What it does a bit differently is recruit “stylists” who have their own @asos accounts and contribute regularly to the brand’s image feed. Many big organizations even help incubate startups in their industry. Insight Center. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Talent System Tools 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Some companies that made the list were obvious choices; for example, the biggest online retailer now gets most of its profit from cloud services (Amazon). While Amazon has expanded its core retailing platform into new categories, such as food and streaming content, in parallel it has built the world’s largest cloud computing enterprise.

Methodologies 43

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 43

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

I wouldn’t be surprised if the statistics are worse in my industry, financial services, where so many companies are large, global, regulated, and structurally complex. We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We

Management 30

Management Change Management Culture Leadership 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

The business has a distinctive customer experience capability, a prowess at creating premium food and beverage products, and an ability to recruit and manage thousands of retail employees with high loyalty and low turnover. With all this in place, Starbucks can move with assurance to expand.

Company 28

Company Engineering Apparel Energy 28

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. Now, case interviews for non-consulting industries tend to really intimidate candidates. Why are case interviews so similar across industries?

Case Interview 78

Case Interview Interviews Consulting Case Study 78

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, there are many reasons to invest the time now to understand the technology and begin exploring specific marketing applications for your industry. Retailers routinely pay credit card companies 3% payment processing fees, while gas stations pay even more. Here, we see the disruptive potential of blockchain on marketing.

Marketing 30

Marketing Advertising Media Video 30

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

Case Interview 100

Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Founded in Paris, and containing the spliced DNA of other major firms it acquired along the way (Ernst & Young Consulting being the most notable), Capgemini Consulting is a global player in today’s consulting industry. Industries. KEY STATS FOR CAPGEMINI CONSULTING. Website: [link]. United States.

Capgemini 192

Capgemini Interviews Consulting Accenture 192

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

It should be no surprise since they have been the birthplace of many technological advances, were one of the founders of the entire personal computer industrial revolution, and now are leaders in new software platforms, hardware infrastructure and workplace equality. Operations and Supply Chain. Finance Risk. Information Technology.

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203