Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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. Address: Arthur D.

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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. “Defection slowed to a trickle.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with. The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2017

Mayer should become a case study for highlighting this point. Leading a turnaround requires much more than making a splash. For instance, large-scale studies have shown that CEOs account for a whopping 22% of variability in organizational performance (more than any other variable except the industry the organization is in).

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

To understand how to turn around a failing school quickly, using as few resources as possible, we studied changes made by 160 UK academies after they were put into remedial measures by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) up to seven years ago. Our findings challenge some of these beliefs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In a survey of nearly 3,000 executives about the success of their enterprise transformation efforts, McKinsey discovered the failure rate to be higher than 60%, while Harvard Business Review conducted a study that suggested more than 70% of transformation efforts fail. The CEO was perpetuating the very problem he sought to fix.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

When I was heading Organization and Management Development at Pepsi International, I would encourage our international executives to study local comedy shows. We all went to Uganda [one of their key operations]. “We started meeting in each other’s homes every few months. We traveled together.

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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. Being a quick study is not the same as being a deep thinker. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities. Strategic Boredom (not enough strategic stress).

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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. We interviewed roughly 30 LCPs to get a sense of how this new role is shaping up.

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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. These CEOs become supported by a team of “yes-sayers,” people who don’t push back on bad decisions or offer different opinions.

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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. We studied them over eight years, using 64 investment and 24 performance variables to identify what they did, when they did it, and the impact they had.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 23, 2018

This may include discrete projects completed at arms length, such as due diligence on a transaction, or turnaround projects where consultants are embedded within an organisation. Sam Smith worked in a top-tier management consulting firm for two years before taking time out for study. Image: Pexels.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

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. You build your way up to those levels.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the research, Korn Ferry used our best-in-class CEO benchmark, which comprises typical scores for CEOs (virtually all male) who are in the 99th percentile of work engagement, as a touchstone to highlight similarities and underscore differences for the women in the study. Women could be ready for the CEO role sooner.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 10, 2021

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. By business owners, for business owners, Conquer the Chaos enables you to reevaluate your approach, revitalize your operations, and realize the freedom and success your hard work deserves.

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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. A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next.

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