article thumbnail

Jenny Dearborn Data Driven Strategies

LSA Global

This book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Data-driven Decision-making and Strategies. LSA Global’s CEO, Tristam Brown.

Data 34
article thumbnail

How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

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.). It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes With Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

Case Studies: The Tangible Impact of Business Consulting Financial Turnaround: A struggling manufacturing company sought the expertise of a business consultant to address financial challenges. Market Expansion Strategy: A tech startup engaged business consultants to devise a market expansion strategy.

article thumbnail

Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. However, in phase three traditional data gathering and traditional metrics are not sufficient to ensure significantly differentiated value creation.

Talent 28
article thumbnail

How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

The second is a strategy + adapting to new data mini-game. To win McKinsey’s digital assessment game Solve, focus on these strategies: Remember the skills being tested. McKinsey’s Solve game is designed to show how well you can turn a pile of data into actionable and successful strategies. And the third is cause vs. effect.

article thumbnail

4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

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.

Metrics 32
article thumbnail

To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. What we found was an incredible paradox. You and Your Team Series.