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MARCH 1, 2022

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 31, 2022

That will increase their turnaround time for the work orders in their group by 70%. You don’t need to understand technology, law, accounting, or medicine to grasp the concept that for $200,000 you can buy a 70% faster turnaround time in the department in question. This is a tradeoff decision.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

About the guest: About the guest: Brad Rex is an accomplished senior executive and corporate officer with proven experience growing businesses and driving results in start-up, turnaround, expansion and multi-site situations.

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Steve Shu Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Suppose you are trying to design a company whose strategy is to provide broadly accessible, lower-cost, optical glasses to customers within quick turnaround times of one hour. Turnaround times might be much longer. Consider a very stylized example. It may also require a wider geographic structure.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

In the early years of the turnaround initiative, hundreds of the top 350 senior leaders who could not, or would not, demonstrate their willingness to adapt their approach were let go or transitioned to other roles. If the evaluations revealed leaders were falling short, the expectation was explicitly reinforced.

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1 to 1

MAY 30, 2018

Only two years after going public, specialty tea retailer DAVIDsTEA announced at the end of 2017 that it was evaluating strategic alternatives, including a potential sale and store closures.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

The former president of Wiremold, Art Byrne, explains in his book The Lean Turnaround that he eliminated volume discounts and incentives for sales to book the largest possible orders. With more level demand, the warranty department was able to keep its turnaround time to under a week, even during the peak summer season. Permalink

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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. Turnaround and Restructuring. 2013) Outstanding Turnaround Firm – Turnarounds & Workouts. Practice Areas.

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BCG

JANUARY 19, 2017

The turnaround of the LEGO Group is one of the famous business stories of this century. He was a 35-year-old former academic and consultant who quickly gained a reputation as a turnaround artist. Prior to the turnaround, Knudstorp acknowledges, LEGO had taken this loyalty for granted by stretching the brand too thin.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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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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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

AUGUST 17, 2020

Brad was a part of several major project at Microsoft, including the complete turnaround of MSN.com, leading the marketing effort for Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Internet Explorer, as well as developing and executing the award winning marketing strategy for Windows 95.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2016

Consultants and consulting firms can go some way towards reducing the effect of economic downturns by offering a range of services including some which are counter cyclical, that is, services which are more in demand during downturns such as restructuring and turnaround support services.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 27, 2023

Ensuring that technology resources are on hand during desk relocations can help address any glitches, particularly when checkerboard moves mean tight turnaround times. Your users are likely to consider these requests urgent.

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The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

This need to ramp up production and meet a requirement for super-fast turnaround times led to wholesale rethinking of processes, and often turned long-held assumptions about just what can be achieved within tight timescales on their head.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 13, 2023

Turnaround times for procurement and shipping are in flux, creating challenges for project teams. Even if your current provider relationships don’t present immediate risks, you may consider investing additional time into confirming that the materials you normally purchase continue to be sourced ethically.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Benefits include a favorable cost structure, easier access to talent and potentially quicker turnaround / longer coverage of business hours (e.g., More and more companies – also your competitors – are leveraging the remote workforce. in customer support).

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Although IT consulting firms can be big shops such as Gartner and Infosys, healthcare and turnaround consulting firms tend to be more boutique in nature. Internal Corporate Strategy Consulting.

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Successful Independent Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2017

Transformation and turnaround leader specialized in building teams, measurement systems, and driving results at distressed and growth companies alike, with a focus on the middle market. Translation: turnaround expert. Translation: change management for IT projects.

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The Fearless Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The final question is, “What is the turnaround to that thought and is it just as true or even truer?” The turnaround thought would be, ‘They just might be interested in meeting with me.’ Now, of course, there are many people whom you speak with where exactly that happens. It’s not a huge stretch, is it? Again, not a huge stretch.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 1, 2018

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. The Data Driven Leader shows you how to use this tremendous asset to lead your organization higher.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

John Shook describes how within the constellation of GM plants, the Fremont plant went from worst to first in quality in one year, with a 180-degree turnaround in culture, all while keeping the same workers. (In As I’ve been reflecting on our slow progress, I keep coming back to the story of NUMMI.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2020

I (buyer) can fix this business (turnarounds make headlines for a reason, they’re rare). Finding a mature, profitable, and fairly priced business is easy (it’s the mature, profitable, and fairly priced part that adds the complication as there’s no shortage of lousy and/or overpriced businesses).

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Recently, The Wall Street Journal reported on how Procter & Gamble’s CEO is under scrutiny by investors and the board for a stalling turnaround effort. P&G’s Stumbles Put CEO On Hot Seat for Turnaround. Most painfully, but all too common, this is occurring in the middle of a very difficult turnaround.

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The Management Centre

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Talk through options for communicating better, aiming to ensure the Project Sponsor has the right information at the right time and an agreed turnaround time. Explain the impact on the project outcomes when decisions and/or sign off are delayed. How to minimise this in the future.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 11, 2014

I like to say (especially to business buyers with stars in their eyes) that, “turnarounds make headlines because they are rare.” These five things present in a company make that company as rare as a successful turnaround and cause headlines to be written about them in business journals and magazines.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 27, 2021

For instance, the interviewer in a pod cast asks how you accomplished a turnaround for a client or what process was used to save multiple clients. Ego boosting events These can take on many guises. The common denominator is the combination of public attention and a bit of ego massage. You overlook confidentiality because it feels good.

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Strategy+Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Some of this year's best business books are narratives that cover the divergent fortunes of three hot technology companies -- one that crashed to earth, one in the midst of a wrenching turnaround, and one that is soaring into the stratosphere.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Turnarounds. Assuming RadioShack averts bankruptcy and achieves a successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? How should Kellogg’s respond to this competitive threat?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. An organisation may also hire consultants to complete work quickly, where they do not have the capacity to do so themselves.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2017

It’s quick – the turnaround time on jobs is impressive. When you indicate that milestone has been achieved, Upwork will pay the freelancer. Over the years I’ve used the site for hundreds of jobs worth thousands of dollars, and I’ve never experienced any problems.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2018

In turnaround situations, for example, the most important roles for the team often are Agenda Setters, Execution Drivers, and Architects (leading required organizational transformation). Groups of executives who lead companies or divisions or major functions need to balance leading their own teams and leading the enterprise together.

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The Fearless Marketer

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They can help your clients do things faster and better, improve productivity and effectiveness, increase sales, shorten cycle times, turnaround cultures, etc., But these programs or services can transform how an organization does things. This is the kind of stuff you’re already doing for your clients, right?

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

He describes his “shock and awe” approach (my terminology) in his excellent book The Lean Turnaround , where he takes the company through several week-long kaizen events. To be sure, there is some up front training, but the emphasis is on starting the lean journey with kaizen events.

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Jacq Hackett Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2017

It’s quick – the turnaround time on jobs is impressive. When you indicate that milestone has been achieved, Upwork will pay the freelancer. Over the years I’ve used the site for hundreds of jobs worth thousands of dollars, and I’ve never experienced any problems.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Turnarounds. Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 15, 2017

Whether your business continues to expand, has experienced a slowdown or turnaround, or is consistent with last year, we want to hear about your experiences. Plus, everyone who participates is entered into a drawing for a free WIC workshop or general meeting [didn’t know we offered webinars].

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