Rick Conlow

JUNE 3, 2021

3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. If employees could operate as a well – oiled machine without training and coaching, you would not be in the mess you are in. These kinds of actions can swiftly turnaround a failing team.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 31, 2022

The ham radio operations team reporting to me will be far more capable at radio operations than I am. I will have physicians and nurses from a volunteer medical core running medical operations who will report to me too. That will increase their turnaround time for the work orders in their group by 70%. I’m not a doctor.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

About the guest: About the guest: Brad Rex is an accomplished senior executive and corporate officer with proven experience growing businesses and driving results in start-up, turnaround, expansion and multi-site situations.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 25, 2016

AlixPartners is an international business advisory firm based in Southfield, MI known for its work in corporate turnarounds, bankruptcy assignments and restructuring. Generally regarded as turnaround market leaders, AlixPartners is doing a killer job at taking up more room in the consulting space by strategically hiring a plethora of gurus.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Alvarez & Marsals Bryan Marsal, Lehmans restructuring officer, ``is actually operating the company. After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. bankruptcy Sept.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 23, 2024

Operational Inefficiencies: Mistakes in operational processes can lead to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and increased overhead costs. Their expertise spans strategic planning, financial management, operations, and beyond. From financial turnarounds to crisis management, the results speak for themselves.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2019

Service areas – or functional areas – can include strategy, operations, technology, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, among others. Some of the most notable specialisations include healthcare, IT or tech, and turnaround consulting. Consultants in these firms are typically required to specialize as soon as they join the firm.

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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. An organisation may also hire consultants to complete work quickly, where they do not have the capacity to do so themselves.

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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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Companies wind up in trouble and squander the time, talent, and energy of their workforce when they lose focus, spend money on things that don’t make a difference to employees or the future of the business, and use operating models that are out of whack. redesign the operating model. Redesign the Operating Model.

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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. This year our survey is open March 14 to April 7, 2018, and takes only 10 – 15 minutes to complete.

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Martinka Consulting

AUGUST 11, 2014

I like to say (especially to business buyers with stars in their eyes) that, “turnarounds make headlines because they are rare.” Systems in place that increase productivity and can be implemented by numerous people (no dependency on one tech person, one machine operator, etc.).

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 13, 2023

Turnaround times for procurement and shipping are in flux, creating challenges for project teams. And if you’re operating under regulatory or compliance frameworks, be sure to let your suppliers know up front to reduce the risk of noncompliance.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Turnarounds. In an apparent attempt to stop McKinsey poaching key talent, AlixPartners sued its former employees (Eric Thompson, managing director of AlixPartners’ Hong Kong office, and Ivo Naumann, head of its Shanghai branch) on claims that they misappropriated trade secrets before they left the firm’s Asian operations.

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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. 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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BCG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Shaving one minute off the time each aircraft is on the ground between flights can save $5 million to $10 million a year in freed aircraft time and hidden costs across the operation. No other aspect of an airline’s operations has as broad or as deep an impact on the entire organization.

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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. Our survey is open March 14 to April 7, 2017 and takes only 10 – 15 minutes to complete.

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freshminds

MARCH 5, 2018

Here are some examples of different approaches across industries; Management Consulting : tend to use “operational” type case studies (more details below). Operational Cases: Operations Case, Increasing Sales, Reducing Costs, Improving the Bottom Line, Turnarounds.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management. We found that the levels of operations and administrative support are what matters most. Sales support is critical.

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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’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. Do we join hands and sing Kumbaya?

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SkillQuo

AUGUST 16, 2017

In fact, ‘supertemps’ – highly qualified freelance individuals who work on short-term contracts for companies have been growing not just in the C-suite, but in many various business departments – some carry out niche, specific jobs, like managing large turnarounds or sales while some just fill a much needed managerial space.

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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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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

When the son took over the business they shed operations that were half of their sales and staff. Once stagnation hits it may not be a turnaround but it sure is a fixer-upper, and that is something all sellers need to avoid. My final example (from the article) is about the Brockhaus Group. As dad coasted, competition raged.

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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Key Processes are the operational and managerial capabilities that allow a company to deliver value in a way that can be repeated and scaled. For an example of digitally-enabled business model transformation, consider Domino’s Pizza, which has experienced a massive turnaround since 2010.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Improved operational efficiency: AI-based needs analysis systems allow insurers to not only improve their probability of lead-to-quote conversion but also re­duce turnaround time conversions. Start small.

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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

MARCH 30, 2017

Sears Holdings has indicated that “substantial doubt” exists about its ability to continue operations. Analysts say that Sears may still have time to stage a turnaround. Alan Mulally led the turnaround at Ford by restoring a “One Ford” mentality throughout his company and championing pride in the Ford name.

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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. In phase three, PE firms are not simply holding companies waiting to dispose of the property, nor are they operating companies seeking to integrate their acquisitions into an existing business.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

The turnaround time can easily be days instead of minutes. Support remote and asynchronous work When everybody is working in the same building from 9-5, it's easy to share information and ask questions. But if you're team is working remotely, or even in different time-zones, asking questions about how something is done is not very efficient.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Similar inefficiencies affect other industries as well, and they are likely to multiply as manufacturers seek to expand product portfolios and reduce turnaround times. manufacturing depends in no small part on whether its largest firms help to breathe new life into the broader ecosystem in which they operate.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

The New York headquarters housed over a third of its workforce, including developers, the sales team, operations, and leadership. The developer teams realized that they were more interactive than they initially imagined, but also needed quiet space to churn out quick turnaround projects.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. One of the most prominent is that Yahoo was late to mobile.

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