Markovitz Consulting

JUNE 9, 2020

The disruption caused by COVID-19 has forced businesses to adopt new ways of operating. That places a huge cash burden on the distributors and suppliers. This has proved to be a boon for some companies. The cash flow model is incredible,” said Adrian Hoffman, an owner of Four Star Seafood in San Francisco.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. These questions that doesn’t get asked enough.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

What CEOs Should Measure for Strategic Success CEOs are responsible for the company’s overall decisions and performance. Knowing what CEOs should measure for strategic success is crucial for making informed decisions and steering the company to where it wants to go in a way that makes sense.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Since I last wrote about the company , theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success , and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan and flip-flopped both its pricing and its product. Lately the company has resembled a fish out of water, gasping for breath. Will MoviePass survive?

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. Their leaders understand that a strong, differentiated company culture contributes to a strong, differentiated brand — and that an extraordinary brand can support and advance an extraordinary culture.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Despite the soothing Q3 headline earnings reports as US companies ‘game’ the system, all is not well once you look into the ‘MUC’ (Manipulated Underperforms Conservative). Apparently companies believe the feel-good news headlines of a earnings beat will offset the negative impact of downward guidance ahead of the report. If so (i.e.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2015

From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. These might include things like cash, inventory, property, plant and equipment. Looking at it this way, assets will be resources that increase in value or generate cash flow.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2015

From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. These might include things like cash, inventory, property, plant and equipment. Looking at it this way, assets will be resources that increase in value or generate cash flow.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

It has been practiced to varying degrees in companies around the world for decades. Companies as large as Michelin and Carrefour are questioning their control structures and seeing real results from replacing them. On the contrary, the specific actions that we observed in close to one hundred liberated companies prove the opposite.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

This significant fuel price volatility drove the Company’s total fuel hedge losses of more than $1.1 The volatility of and increases in crude oil prices, a weakening economic environment and a highly competitive industry with excess capacity have created an extremely challenging environment for the Company. billion in 2008.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

Just think of Kodak, Blockbuster, Blackberry, and Nokia, companies that were once dominant in their respective industries. For example, a manufacturing company might explore new markets or develop complementary products to ensure a more stable income.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

The shadow banking system funnels credit to borrowers who can no longer get loans from the formal banking sector, such as Local Government Funding Vehicles, the property sector, and companies in sectors with massive overcapacity and low or negative profitability such as coal mining, steel, cement, shipbuilding, and solar.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

Management Consultants help businesses make strategic decisions that directly impact the entire company. Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. Let’s say a company is looking to relocate to a new market.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Problem 2: Rigid annual operating budgets. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

The choice of strategy depends on how much investment of time and money the bank is willing to make to enter the new marketplace, and the level of integration the bank wants between the new digital activities and their traditional operations. The recent partnership between OnDeck and JPMorgan Chase is such an example. Eastern Bank).

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Cars aren’t like companies. Companies usually start and end with their founders. Sometimes, a small, stable company is sold to an individual operator, usually for a multiple of the expected annual profit. Most cars on the road will be sold, again and again, until they end up as parts.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price.

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Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Ultimately, these hurdles jeopardize the firms’ ability to set and achieve short-term and long-term objectives, forecast cash flows, and strategize for the future. For companies where projects are the heartbeat, sales, marketing, and client servicing are the vital vessels supporting this heartbeat.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 19, 2020

For our purposes, let’s identify a boutique firm as one that has less than 100 consultants (emphasis on ‘consultants’ and not staff) and operates from at most only a handful of offices (even if those offices are in multiple countries). Notable Considerations. Compensation. There is also much to be said about other types of compensation (e.g.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. Revenue increased by 34 times. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at Tech firms.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Imagine being able to quickly and accurately calculate how much money a business is sacrificing through imperfect operation, and which areas of the business are draining the most profit. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should. What is Profit Leakage? Printable report.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. What can you afford: Cash Flow Cashflow is king for small business.

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Progressus

MARCH 1, 2024

When to Use: Ideal for businesses aiming to enhance operational efficiency, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and foster team collaboration. Streamlining Communication and Collaboration in Remote Teams Problem: A software development company with a globally distributed team faced challenges in communication and collaboration.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

For example, the mental model you have about your business is your mental picture of how your business operates. Back in the 1990s, General Electric was considered an incredibly well-run company. A mental model is an idea you have in your head about a particular situation. Scenario 1: Direct Report: “Sales went up 20%, unexpectedly…”.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

Michael Porter: Focus on creating value Professor Michael Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy , has emphasised that the true measure of success for a company is not just its quarterly financial performance, but also how those results are attained.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 20, 2018

For those who are not familiar with this term, M&A refers to a situation where one company buys part or all of the business of another company. If one company takes a controlling interest in the other, it is regarded as an acquisition. To start with, what is M&A? Comparable Transactions.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). The founder of the PE firm has a distinct term for the earnings/income of a company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Others say the new company will be a “powerhouse.” Combining the second-largest wireless carrier with the fourth-biggest entertainment company — one whose impressive assets include HBO and CNN — is likely to create an unassailable mobile-entertainment business. ” Will the outcome be different this time?

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