Strategy Driven

AUGUST 23, 2021

Refit and Restructure: The most effective way of attracting employees in the wake of Coronavirus is to offer remote work. As it turns out, many of these remote jobs were better than the daily commute to the office and more productive for all involved. You will need to change things and make some adjustments but it can easily be done.

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Franchising How To Restructuring Teamwork 139

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2020

Businesses, from large corporations and MNCs to small companies and startups, are forced to make significant operational and structural changes. It is an attractive and feasible solution to maintain operations and productivity in the immediate future. GDPs are plummeting, and unemployment rates are rising worldwide.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The move follows through with their “Operational Excellence Program” that they announced in October 2022, adding that additional organizational restructuring was necessary, highlighting that certain corporate functions would be supported by third-party outsourcing providers in addition to the Hasbro job cuts.

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Franchising Restructuring Outsourcing Retail 98

HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

A new IBM report shows that half of CHROs identified for the study recognize the possibilities for innovation in HR operations and the acquisition and development of talent. The notable industrialists Taylor and the Gilbreths formulated plans to understand worker productivity. OSHA Risks.

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How To Due Diligence Leadership Pipeline Stress 111

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

Similarly, the researchers believe that layoffs don’t necessarily reflect the quality of the firm’s offering, in the way that product-harm crises inevitably do. Therefore, the firm has control over things like the timing, the location, and how the layoffs are communicated. ” .

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Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 95

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

As leaders, we should be allowing the best of employee behaviors to drive the culture and operations, and not allowing negative behaviors to drag things down. What this CEO needed to do what transition her focus to the core part of the staff who will produce the biggest change in culture and productivity.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

Heinz, like so many other multinationals gave the stereotypical corporate rationale — they said the plant was unprofitable and part of a global restructuring. That tenure came to an end in 2014 when Heinz decided to mothball the factory and put 740 people out of work. Declining Sensitivity of Downsizing.

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Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 13, 2014

Future leaders will have to learn how to manage global production, marketing, and sales teams to achieve competitive advantage. Computer programmers in India will communicate with designers in Italy to help develop products that are manufactured in Indonesia and sold in Brazil. Building partnerships and alliances.

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Competitive Advantage Globalization Diversity Technology 140

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 62

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

There needs to be a framework and model that leaders can follow, an operating model, so to speak. They are no longer content to be objects toward which products or brands are positioned and targeted.” They are no longer content to be objects toward which products or brands are positioned and targeted.

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Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 56

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Gerald Adolph is a New York-based Senior Partner with Booz & Company with a specialty in strategy and operations for technology-driven businesses. His work primarily focuses on assisting clients with growth strategy, new business development, and industry restructuring. To read Paul’s complete biography, click here.

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Restructuring Newsletter Strategy Technology 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technological advances and increasingly sophisticated ways of gathering and analyzing data are changing both the kinds of products and services companies can offer and are increasing competitive pressures. To meet the moment, this article argues that organizations may need to change the way they operate to innovate.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. I’m not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

When I was a young product manager back in the ’70s, the only people I could talk to about brands were my colleagues in the marketing department and the advertising agency. Indeed, a case can be made where specific restructuring is necessary to bring companies to the new economic reality.

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Magazine Brand Article Marketing 100

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Although employees may work hard, they appreciate the lack of rules, regulations, and strictures that inhibit their freedom without increasing their productivity. The decline in opportunities for promotion. .

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. Streamlined Processes Fintech innovations have transformed the financial sector, fostering inclusivity, enhancing operational efficiency, and facilitating personalized customer experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Restructure training. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. They need information that shows when to take action, not just figures that describe the level of production and the level of mistakes in the past. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context.

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Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

This might involve tough decisions like restructuring or letting go of less profitable product lines, but such changes can lead to a more robust business post-crisis. This might involve restructuring existing loans or negotiating payment terms with creditors. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

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Finance Crisis Management Crisis Management 103

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. Its 2002 restructuring offered little incremental benefit while adding cost and complexity.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. Our productivity grew each year and our facility bids were winning over 70% of the time. We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years. High quality service was not a value before we started.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

PL and CM: Coherent companies – those that possess a capabilities system that aligns their strategy with their product/service portfolio – generate superior performance over time, which is what we call the coherence premium. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’. SD : What does it mean to have a ‘right to win?’.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Companies soon realized that centralization or regionalization was not a black and white choice; many key strategic and operational decisions had to be made in a dialogue. Choices in strategy, labor relations, product specification, and advertising were often poorly suited to other regions around the world.

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Restructuring Disaggregation Marketing Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2014

Click the arrow below to find out where all those hours went: Some of that time was productive, no doubt. How companies can use time effectively is just one piece of a larger and ultimately more important puzzle: how to increase the productivity of their people. Managing people Productivity' The results jumped out at us.

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Human Capital Restructuring Committee Comparison 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The primary focus was on fixing the acquired firm through financial restructuring, dramatic cost cutting, and strategic slashing. 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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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. Bring people into HR with extensive operational improvement experience. In HR, we need to focus on what is important.".

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Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

A constant theme during meetings over the last three years has been how globalisation and the economic crisis have forced organizations to rethink their strategies and change they way they operate. Worse, organizations rarely show people how to operate in a new structure, which can also undermine effectiveness.

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Restructuring Operations Consultative Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. Peter's appointment as president triggered two common challenges with peer promotions: rapid re-contracting followed by rapid restructuring. When Sarah left, Operations also was reconfigured.

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Management Restructuring CFO Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

They look at their business as platforms, not just as products and services. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Geographic business units are responsible for hiring the right people, selling their products, and provisioning new customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

” We restructured Machine Shop to focus on innovation through non-traditional business partnerships and creative design thinking. So we parted ways with our outside management agency in late 2014 and we brought all core business operations in-house. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Most importantly, minimal viable products and working prototypes will have been tested. government federal research agencies to turn ideas into products.

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Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. According to Lucid, building managers can realize significant energy savings purely from operational measures.

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Content Efficiency Energy Finance 8