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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking

Management Consulted

That being said, here’s a quick list of what you can expect to learn in both fields: By “hard skills”, I mostly mean software (ie Microsoft Office Suite), analytics (ie financial valuation). This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Joel on Software. 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. Who knew he could stimulate the economy so quickly? WaMu made a motion to designate William C.

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GE’s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.

Harvard Business

In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool. Take, for example, News Corporation getting into the exciting internet space by buying MySpace, or Microsoft into smartphones with Nokia, or HP into software and services with Autonomy — all written off virtually in their entirety.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

FTI expanded into investigation and research capabilities as well as turnaround, restructuring, bankruptcy and forensic accounting with the moves. As an outgrowth of a multi-district pharmaceutical case, the firm formed its technology practice, specializing in e-discovery solutions and software. E-discovery software provider.

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What I Learned From 10 Years of Doing PR for Apple

Harvard Business

” Little did I know that over the next 10 years I’d be part of the biggest corporate turnaround in global history. Many significant products, software updates, and personnel changes went by with barely a PR push. From Sydney I moved to Singapore, where I joined the company and led Asia Pacific regional communications.

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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Turnarounds. software development) consultants may represent a cost-effective solution. Expertise can form a crucial part of a consulting firm’s value proposition and can be something worth fighting over. A firm may also lack the expertise or manpower needed to implement recommendations efficiently and effectively.