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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. It’s for techies.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

If something is “disruptive,” then it must by definition be good. But when it comes to internal operations at least, disruption is often both bad for business and for employees, because it causes unevenness in work. It read the increased sales as a sign that consumers had started to like green cars, and ramped up production.

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Small Steps or Big Steps: What’s the Right Way to Begin Improvement?

Markovitz Consulting

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. Operational and financial improvements are rapid, dramatic, and lasting. But by definition they’re episodic (every 2 weeks? every month?)

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List of strategy consulting firms in Hong Kong

Tom Spencer

Definitions. Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Kearney operates across 55 locations world wide. Helpful Links. in Management Consulting.

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List of strategy consulting firms in London

Tom Spencer

Definitions. A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. It also delivers specialist operational, consulting and industry expertise to management and investors seeking to accelerate performance and maximise value across corporate and investment lifecycles.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. It’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. “But given what I saw in Arkansas, the patient is definitely not out of the woods.”

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Seabury Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. In fact, in terms of firms we profile, they are truly one of the new kids on the block. As far as the firm’s history, that’s about as in depth as it gets.

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