Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, I start out speaking engagements on buying a business by telling the audience (usually management and executive level people0 there’s a good chance it’s not for them. While all buyers want capable employees, most strategic buyers (that’s you) also prefer to see a solid management team in place.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed. Every high performer needs both.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2018

Medical device companies are catching on to the financial potential of these devices and are beginning to add medical wearables to their product lines. While current devices can capture important vital signs and other fitness metrics, their ability to diagnose and treat chronic conditions is currently limited. Image: Pixabay.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., Philippe Marion/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Lines like this are still used all too frequently when employees tell their managers that they want to move in a new direction. Managers are under tremendous pressure to generate results. I hear these challenges all the time as I work with managers at all levels, particularly in large corporations. Sales isn’t what you do.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

A global sporting goods manufacturer used to mix brand-oriented, aspirational messages and price-focused promotional messages during the same time frame, in part because its e-commerce and brand teams did not coordinate with each other. Read the full report to learn more about how leading marketers manage signals, sequence and speed.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

Here are four ways to ensure your networking meeting is productive and meaningful, even if the agenda is amorphous. Contact management systems, such as Contactually , can help you stay organized, or you can do it on your own with calendar reminders. First, it’s important to be clear on your reasons for accepting the meeting.

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CaseInterview.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Post-merger integration, project management offices, and transformation are areas of expertise. Formed in 2007 when Mercer Oliver Wyman, Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta Mercer Oliver Wyman joined together to become one company, Oliver Wyman. Booz and was first to use the term " management consulting." OLIVER WYMAN.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

This result offers a warning to avoid culturally biased phrases in general and sports metaphors in particular when you’re trying to be clear. Let’s say that a competitor is expected to launch a new offering next quarter that threatens to disrupt your most profitable product.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” It could be a new assignment at work, upcoming travel, or a new product lineup. “Don’t toot your own horn.

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