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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

Volume discounts have the same effect, by encouraging customers to order more product than they need in order to get a larger discount. It read the increased sales as a sign that consumers had started to like green cars, and ramped up production. Both these practices wreak havoc on the supply chain through the “ bullwhip effect.”

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

” Working with his close friend and ultimate co-author, Mette Norgaard, he developed a four-step process for dealing with them in the most respectful and productive way: Listen, Frame, Advance, Help. At Campbell, Doug began calling the daily interactions he had with employees, “touchpoints.”

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. 3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. With the same product, policies, and people).

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. 3 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team. The following six proven turnaround tactics come from my consulting practice. With the same product, policies, and people).

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When Is Teamwork Really Necessary?

Harvard Business

Although his one-on-one meetings with these reports, which involved progress reviews, motivation, and coaching, were highly productive, his monthly team meetings weren’t. Catherine, a senior marketing director leading a cross-functional product development team at the same company, provides a contrasting case study.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

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.