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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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Evaluating our sample set of companies in hardware, machinery, industrial equipment, and information and communications technology, we have found a wide disparity in the amount of sales support that organizations employ.

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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

Once you have this information discuss with your Project Sponsor whether this would be best for the project. 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. Ask open questions and keep an open mind.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you want driving directions from Google Maps, your app asks you for two pieces of information: your current location and your desired location. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2018

When I was teaching the American Express turnaround case at HBS, Harvey Golub, then the company’s CEO, came to class. Take the contrarian view. He explained that he would often take the contrarian view: If the meeting was about raising the price for a service, he would show up and ask whether they should lower the price.

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The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

Many of those responsible for content production in consulting firms really stepped up to the plate in 2020, helping meet the huge appetite for information and guidance at a time when their clients were crying out for support.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

What she learned informed her strategy for the turnaround, which she then communicated through a series of town halls, roundtables, and memos. ” And she restored the company’s profitability — the turnaround was a success. “The response was overwhelming,” Mulcahy said. Hope rekindled.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

They valued purposeful spaces that provided plug-and-play technology so that information could be more easily shared among team members, and to better support virtual collaboration. And people wanted more meeting spaces that could be used quickly and informally.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 13, 2018

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. All information collected during the survey is confidential. Plus, everyone who participates is entered into a drawing for a free WIC workshop or archived webinar.

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Jerry Fletcher

MARCH 27, 2021

It doesn’t matter whether the information being shared is positive, negative, secret or common knowledge. How would you feel about someone sharing private information with you? 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.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2018

The trend is attributed to the growth of digital communication channels and reduced access to physicians, who increasingly prefer to get product information online. But too often, companies cut a few sales jobs and hope for a market turnaround that never happens. Merck recently publicized that it planned to lay off about 1,800 U.S.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

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. Turnarounds. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

One CEO we worked with was known for his smart turnarounds of a large media company. After multiple sessions, he had shared little information about himself, and we were no closer to figuring out the root of the problem. Before any coaching can be effective, they need to wake up to the ways their actions affect others.

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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? Assuming RadioShack averts bankruptcy and achieves a successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Services offered include: complexity management, enterprise transformation, operations, procurement solutions, strategic information technology, strategy and sustainability. IMS is the leading provider of information services for the healthcare industry. Bain & Company. Website: www.bain.com. Bain & Company (Hong Kong).

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Instead, be ready to have an exploratory but informed conversation about an issue by researching news stories or mentions in their social media feeds. But his core business is turnaround consulting. So don’t do it. Here are two stories of how others have used contact marketing to inspire a few ideas for your own campaign.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. Restructuring/Turnaround Services. Information Technology. Honored with Seven M&A Advisor Turnaround Awards. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Bankruptcy Support Services.

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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. All information collected during the survey is confidential. Please also feel free to pass the survey link along to other consultants outside of the WIC Community.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While some situations demand outside successors — such as a turnaround or a discontinuous shift in the industry and strategy – we believe that internal candidates remain the future CEOs-of-choice. Choosing a CEO is a high-stakes proposition, arguably the most important decision a board can make. Do you know who they are?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Organizations can scale exponentially by using virtual assistants to help manage areas such as information search, data management, and process automation. Advisory excellence: Robo-advisors eliminate human bias and improve trust and confidence levels by pro­viding consistent, rules-based advisory services at an affordable cost.

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Management Consulted

JUNE 14, 2015

Founded in 1995 by former Bain consultants and headquartered in New York City, they focus on developing airline strategy and implementing major operational turnaround. Well, the folks at The Seabury Group were kind enough to make a fact sheet containing all the necessary information. Are you confused yet?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

.” But being isolated at the top can compromise your decision making and leadership effectiveness, both of which require having as much firsthand information about a situation as possible. But there are other, less dramatic techniques, too. This forced them to go meet these customers and hear how they felt about the company.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 26, 2019

It can also be used by interviewers to remind candidates to identify all the key information needed to assess a candidate's career experiences. At the time, I was the CEO's "Chief of Staff" and had stepped in as interim Chief Information Officer. The servers we wanted had a two-week turnaround time. and to do it fast.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

Create an Environment of Transparency for the Transaction – A buyer’s due diligence prior to purchasing a privately held company will result in the seller being asked to share a significant amount of confidential information. In short, the default setting for business sale negotiation is generally better for the seller than the buyer.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds. By asking these questions, it will not only show your sensitivity to the case and it could also uncover vital information. Are we figuring out the profit per day, per month or per year? Is it for one store or all the stores?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

A&M specialises in turnaround and interim management, performance management and business advisory services. London EC2M 7EB. United Kingdom. Tel: +44 207 715 5200. Founded in 1983, Alvarez & Marsal is headquartered in New York and has 17 offices worldwide. If you enjoyed this post, get email updates (its free). Leave a Comment Now.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. This phase was loosely called leverage buy out (LBO) from about 1979 to 1990 and included over 2,000 LBOs. Leaders were driven by short-term profits and rapid action to flip the organization.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

We were given full access to the academies’ management information systems, leaders, staff and students so we could see how they worked, the decisions they’d made and the impact they’d had. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken. So what did we find?

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

Company Wiki As your organization grows, there is the need to make information available to the whole team. The need to share information across the organization At a certain size, you can't share all information personally. Because not everyone will interact on the regular basis with the owner of the information.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

German business-chamber association DIHK says 73% of senior managers, “haven’t assembled the basic documents needed for a handover, such as power of attorney, supplier and client information, bank-access data or a will.” ” If you think 73% is high, think again.

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The Consultants Peer Group

APRIL 3, 2023

When a comfortable space is created where the employee is recognized and valued and, most importantly, listened to, not only is the work of higher quality but also there is more information shared to ensure that the tasks or projects are understood to be a joint responsibility.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

How to Get the Most Out of an Informational Interview. This next story is told by a health care EVP/COO who’s planned and executed several turnarounds of large hospital systems. Then add the more detailed bullet points to fill in those stories. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. Is It Time to Quit Your Job?

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Peter Stark

JANUARY 30, 2018

Amend the action plan, as needed, based on information and actions suggested by employees. The leader mentioned at the beginning of this article was offered the opportunity to work with an executive coach and he took the opportunity to heart and made a dramatic turnaround. Use interviews and surveys to assess progress.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school. As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way?

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The legendary book ‘Moments of Truth’ by Jan Carlzon, detailed the business turnaround enacted at Scandinavian Airlines Systems (SAS) and was on the executive best-seller bookshelf in the late 1980’s. Check our website [link] or call 087 2439019 for an informal discussion about executive or organization development. Plagiarism.

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1 to 1

JUNE 1, 2021

With attended RPA, the same sort of behind-the-scenes task handling is automated, but the information gleaned from that process is eventually handed off to an associate who uses it during customer interactions. Automation makes it easier for employees to go through information and resolve issues.

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