Women in Consulting

MARCH 13, 2018

Over the years, it’s offered useful insights into the evolution of Bay Area consulting businesses, such as billing and marketing tool trends, consulting expertise and specialties, structure and operations. Perhaps this would be a perfect time to go ahead and join WIC as a Premium or Leaders Network member prior to the meeting?

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Survey Consulting Turnaround Report 31

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

The symptoms may seem to be minor annoyances and inconveniences that could be wiped out without much effort — too much process, too many meetings, meaningless goals, and time wasted on work that no one will ever care about. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model. reset the budgets.

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How To Energy Operations Bain 61

Women in Consulting

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the years, it’s offered interesting insights into the evolution of Bay Area consulting businesses, such as billing trends and rates, consulting expertise and specialties, structure and operations. 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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Survey Turnaround Meeting Consulting 54

Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

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 was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. She recounted her meeting with Marshall.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Now a global giant in the drinks business, just 25 years ago, its precursor, Brahma, was a second-tier Brazilian brewer undergoing a painful turnaround in the hands of acquirer 3G, a São Paulo–based private equity house. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Turnaround Report Company Construction 42

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Pick an example of a work activity that happens regularly, like a daily or weekly standing meeting. For the attribute “location,” for example, you could ask your team: Is the meeting best facilitated if it’s held in an in-demand central meeting room or near where other people are likely to gather?

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Exercises Meeting Real Estate Survey 49

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 41

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Senior executives tend to be shielded from organizational problems and data; they are given limited and filtered information about their operations, employees, and customers. However, as CEO he stopped meeting with his brain trust and removed the two executives who had been his competitors.

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How To Banking Turnaround Meeting 28

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

Perhaps nervous about the meeting in the morning, you find yourself lying on the bed flicking through the TV channels for something to watch to keep you awake to offset the growing jet-lag. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations].

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. LCPs also increasingly participate in fund-raising meetings with deal teams.

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Leadership Talent Culture Turnaround 29

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. Insight Center.

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

I’ll broaden my scope of attention a bit more by continuing to focus on strategy even though I know there will continue to be numpties that will say, “we don’t do strategy” or “that’s not how we operate”. There is a lesson for all of us in Barnes and Nobles’ turnaround: “If you want to sell music, you have to love those songs.”.

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Sports Marketing Travel Turnaround 45

1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals starting earlier and running longer, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly. When volume surges or the unexpected happens, organizations can pivot and scale support capacity quickly to meet customer needs across channels.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. These roll up into what we call ‘effortless’ experiences, which will define the new age in retail.

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Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. After the meeting, one colleague pointed to Peter’s decision as a key turning point: “Peter’s willingness to change his mind in public was huge progress for us in establishing a strong Box 2 culture.”

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Company Culture Turnaround Productivity 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%.

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Company How To Turnaround Engineering 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. He held them accountable for meeting sizable improvements, but he also supported the team during challenging periods. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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Company Engineering Turnaround System 28

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

What were their biggest challenges, and how did you help meet them? developing the business plan and go-to-market strategy that has enabled us to maintain 100% ownership, operate part-time, grow it slowly over 20 years, and win Sam Adams’s 2016 “Brewing and Business Experienceship” year-long mentorship prize.

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Resumes Interviews Cover Letters Recruiting 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

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Culture Leadership Resources Healthcare 28

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. Promotions are dependent on how quickly you meet functional competencies and skill requirements set out for you by the powers that be.

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Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

JULY 2, 2015

Operations. It is currently summer, and Cabana is having trouble meeting demand. A leading financial services company is trying to reduce operating expenditures. Turnarounds. What should they do with it? Coca Cola has a bottling plant in Mumbai. What should the company do? How can it achieve its savings target?

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Consulting Turnaround Case Interview Retail 60

ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

You can meet the challenges, reclaim your life, and grow your business at the same time. A one-stop turnaround plan, Conquer the Chaos lays out a complete path to make your business run smoothly and provide you with the freedom you desire. In this article he provided the underlying rules of operations. But take heart!

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Consulting Small Business Video Ethics 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

To meet these challenges, we see three priorities for developing the next generation of leaders in the “work-disrupted” age: Mastery of Digital. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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