Case #92 Macmillan and Grunski Consulting Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Summary of Case The case starts off with introducing Sandra Macmillan‚ a bachelor’s degree holder in Economics who worked for Peace Corps. She was offered a job in a regional brokerage firm in Seattle and became very familiar to the work environment and operations of the firm. She also decided to get her MBA from a prestigious university to help her take her job to the next level. After a few years‚ Sandra decided
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Dallas Consulting Group Profit Variance Analysis Strategic Issues and Observations: The Dallas Consulting Group provides business strategy and operations management consulting services for its clients. Three consultant partners of the company help their clients in cost reduction by using different techniques like time streamlining production and reengineering operations. Since the company is making $80‚000 more profit than expected in year 2009‚ one of the partners‚ Dave Lundberg pointed out
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Consulting Proposal #1 I. Definition of Project: As more companies enter the marketplace‚ the need to attract and retain customers will not only increase but also be necessary for survival. The Seagram Company has undergone numerous changes to maintain market share. Again‚ the company in the midst of major change and is in need of a current diagnosis of the situation and recommendations on how to advance these ambitious goals. The project needed to implement the change is necessary as today’s organizations
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You are the newly hired consultant for Big Foot Consulting and have been assigned to the New Balance account. New Balance wants some new thinking about where and how to profitably grow. Use the product/market expansion grid to give New Balance some new strategy ideas. Explain what each quadrant represents and give a suggested strategy to New Balance for each quadrant. As the new Big Foot Consulting firm’s consultant‚ I have some advice from the product & market expansion grid to profitably
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An American management consulting company is planning to extend its business broad and target a new international market. The consulting services help companies to develop their business plan‚ marketing plan‚ financial plan‚ logistic plan‚ information technology‚ and training. Today‚ this kind of services has become very common and widely spread across all business activities around the world. Also‚ it has become integrated Part of the huge numbers of companies. In 2007‚ the total revenue of its
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Consulting approaches to process improvement Bain & Co. Kai A. Simon Viktoria Institute Author’s Note: This is a part of an early draft of my doctoral dissertation that was shortened considerably for the final version. Nevertheless‚ it might be a useful collection of insight for organizations that face a need for redesigning their business processes and wish to learn more about the basic concept and how some major consulting firms approach it methodologically. The series consists of 7 parts
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CONSULTING PROJECT Pricing and Production Decisions at PoolVac‚ Inc. PoolVac‚ Inc. manufactures and sells a single product called the “Sting Ray‚” which is a patent-protected automatic cleaning device for swimming pools. PoolVac’s Sting Ray accounts for 65 percent of total industry sales of automatic pool cleaners. Its closest competitor‚ Howard Industries‚ sells a competing pool cleaner that has captured about 18 percent of the market. Six other very small firms share the rest of the industry’s
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2. Some of the growth of knowledge management systems in TCS and how the sytems helped its business are listed as below: KBASES AND GROUPWARE It is a knowledge repository in the corporate and branch servers accessible to all employees through the intranet. It contained wide range of information regarding processes‚ line of technology and the line of business. The groupware was a body which automated various in house systems such as training and many other functions. CLOSELY KNITS COMMUNITIES
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San Francisco Bay Consulting (SF Bay Consulting)‚ as described in the Harvard Business School case by Baker and Monsler (1995)‚ is a leading business consultancy and litigation support group following the goal of providing “practical application of economic theory to business problems” (p. 1). In order to manipulate and analyze data‚ high-end software and computers are used to serve clients’ needs. The company faces serious internal problems regarding the relationship between their consultants and
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MBA 2014 Assessment of HR Practices in Consulting Industry SUBMITTED BY : Divij Sharma(12BM60046) Ashwini Kr. Rao(12BM60047) Dev Maletia(12BM60060) Abhitosh Daw(12BM60078) Koyel Dutta(12BM60080) INDEX Topic 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction Why Consulting Job Analysis and design Performance appraisal Job Evaluation Orientation & placement Recruitment Selection Summary Page 3 6 7 10 14 21 27 31 33 Headway into the world of Consulting: Introduction: The word Consultant comes
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