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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

The definitive 2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney. Below is our 2014 list of strategy consulting firms in Sydney. The firms on the 2014 list are: Nous Group. Services include Strategy Development, Operational Improvement, and Transaction Support. Source: Flickr ). Pacific Strategy Partners. Second Road.

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Desperate Times Call for Effective Turnarounds

BCG

Many transformation initiatives focus on improving a company’s financial and operational performance from “good” (or moderate) to “great”—that is, the company is already doing well in some or most areas, yet management still sees a need to make improvements. Sales numbers may be stable, or even growing, yet profitability has begun to decline.

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Startups Are Turning Customers into Lobbyists

Harvard Business

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

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AI Can Comb Through Your Data to Create More Compelling Customer Experiences

Harvard Business

And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that’s “too little, too late.” The mattress store sales rep told me he did not have any information about that mattress because after the acquisition, they threw out the old customer relationship management (CRM) data.

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If Your Employees Aren’t Speaking Up, Blame Company Culture

Harvard Business

In our research we collected survey data from a manufacturing plant in Malaysia in 2014. The firm was responsible for manufacturing and sales of soaps, detergents, and other home cleaning products, and employees often encountered situations where there was compelling need to speak up about issues around current work operations.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Working with Emerging-Market Data

Harvard Business

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. To understand a product’s sales potential, executives want industry-specific indicators.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits. More-stable scheduling increased sales and labor productivity. per year between 1987 and 2014. The results were striking. We hope not.

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