Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Many years ago I was a regular at a pretty cool restaurant in Minneapolis, when I traveled there about once a month on business. Sales – too often there are more order takers than true salespeople. Inefficient operations – growth, and I mean profitable growth, can mask a lot of problems. And he’s right. Don’t believe it?

Travel 40

Travel Culture Sales Operations 40

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Marketing & Sales.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Management Consulted

APRIL 5, 2015

has a global leadership team consisting of 11 members spread across their offices. Marketing & Sales. Operations. Aviation & Travel. are operating on smaller budgets than their colleagues at MBB etc. With regard to travel requirements, L.E.K is very unusual in that it is a very low travel firm.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Strategy 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2015

Tom: LEK offers a range of services including Strategy, Marketing & Sales, Operations and Mergers & Acquisitions. The life of a management consultant is certainly a busy one and often involves travel. Tom: What is LEK’s travel model? Where does LEK do the bulk of its work?

Consulting 60

Consulting Case Interview Cover Letters Recruiting 60

Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Say one with $5-7 million in sales and 10-15% profit? You don’t get much management skill at that pay level, and even less leadership ability. Gary sold a wonderful business with the following features: Net profit of over 25% of sales. Growth of sales and profits every year during the recession. Real Life Story.

Methodologies 40

Methodologies Sales Small Business Travel 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives have already disrupted industries such as media, publishing, travel, music, and photography. But who is likely to assume leadership in creating and capturing economic value in Type 3 products: Digital natives or industry incumbents? Ford or Tesla? Rolls Royce or IBM? Caterpillar or Microsoft? Both have a chance.

Industry 28

Industry Software Engineering Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. increased the number of consecutive games teams played without traveling by 23%. What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities?

Data 28

Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. That’s how I become interested in consulting.”

Consulting 204

Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Peter Stark

DECEMBER 26, 2017

I can travel all week doing presentations for clients. When I travel for two or three weeks in a row, I start to focus on the negative impact the travel is having on my body, my family and my team at work. The sales department in an organization we work with had a winning year and carried the organization to new heights.

Travel 29

Travel System Sales Recruiting 29

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. The practice areas of Booz & Company include: Strategy and Leadership. Operations and Logistics. Automotive.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

As the head of a leadership assessment, development, and coaching firm, I spend a lot of time with successful executives talking about their work lives — and in the past few years, many of those conversations have centered on an increasingly popular, and increasingly idealized, imagined next step: the so-called “portfolio career.”

How To 29

How To Travel Banking Consulting 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

Company 29

Company Benchmarking Travel Policies 29

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Self-described “recovering consultant” Blair Enns is the CEO of Win Without Pitching, a sales training organization for creative professionals in the design, advertising, and public relations fields. It’s a sales training organization to creative professionals. ” I started writing content or thought leadership.

Consulting 121

Consulting Productivity Advertising Training 121

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Sports Marketing Software 28

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

Despite the teeny-tiny footprint (compared to most McKinsey locations), several global practice leaders – in Corporate Finance, Marketing & Sales, Innovation, Strategy, Consumer and Transactions – are based in Boston. Still, the offices are typically McKinsey-swanky – located on 280 Congress St #1100, Boston, MA, 02210.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2018

One popular view of activists is that they are short-term, cut-and-run operators who are looking for a quick profit. Think of how often activists have pressed for the sale and restructuring of firms and for the dismissal of CEOs. Many don’t have much operational experience; we certainly didn’t.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Construction Meeting Company 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. Capture Reference Data About Current Change Projects.

Change Management 28

Change Management Data Company Management 28

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

They did much of the work piecing together Mr. Madoff’s money trail and just recently flew over to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Government, who hired FTI to improve operations of utilities and highway units (2014). However, US-based clients still account for the vast majority (around 75%) of sales. Leadership Forums.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. billion, its budget in 2015 was slightly higher than the total gross sales of General Motors. Could the organization turn itself around?

Culture 28

Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. “My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said. “The romance of travel is near and dear to everyone’s heart. It’s not for everyone.

Energy 28

Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Expectations matter.

Media 31

Media Advertising Metrics Productivity 31

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

Methodologies 44

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 44

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. That said, writing for a trade publication is not easy.

Consulting 68

Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Confessions of a Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Many people will already be familiar with the system in operation at 3M where people are allowed to devote 15% of their time and budget to any project that they wish. In the USA, Dwight Eisenhower used to demonstrate the art of leadership with a piece of string. What speed is the car travelling? That’s a Sales Rep.

Energy 40

Energy System Advertising Management 40