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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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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Introduction • Mission • Organization • Task Structure Force • Change • Span of Control • Implementation “Every Pet‚ Every Parent‚ Every Time” Presented by: Front & Center Consulting Co Today’s Objective ✦ The mission of the F&CCC is to provide recommendation to the PetSmart Board of Directors regarding implementation of activities that will assist PetSmart to achieve its goals‚ to implement the new technology‚ to cut costs‚ to increase productivity and to maximize the efficiency
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I. Statement of the Problem In September 1995 Electronic Data Systems (EDS)‚ an information technology firm acquired A.T. Kearney‚ the world’s largest global management consulting firm. There were significant concerns that were held by the consultants; which led to a fear of losing as well as the inability to attract talented people. Along with the fact that a technology firm was merging with a business firm‚ would that be successful? There was question as to whether these two organizations
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improve the productivity of their workers.[3][4] Like the other three firms that dominated consulting in the 1940s‚ 50s and 60s‚ PA was an offshoot of the pre-war Bedaux Company.[5] Bedaux in turn had been developed from the time and motion ’scientific management’ theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank Gilbreth. Butten sought to take the mechanistic and task-orientated concepts of scientific management and add a human dimension to them. The chief idea‚ along the lines of Douglas McGregor’s
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History Initially called Andersen Consulting‚ Accenture was formally established in 1989 when a group of partners from the Consulting division of the various Arthur Andersen firms around the world formed a new organization focused on consulting and technology services related to managing large-scale systems integration and enhancing business processes. Accenture changed its name from Andersen Consulting in 2001 after severing ties from its parent company Arthur Andersen. The company went public
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CASE: SM-151 DATE: 05/16/06 INFOSYS CONSULTING IN 2006: LEADING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING There is no doubt in my mind that five years from now‚ the Infosys Consulting model will be the standard way of doing things where technology development is done off-site. We are one of the fastest growing IT consulting firms in the world. Our major bottlenecks right now are convincing clients to break with old habits and take a chance on a new‚ better model and
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The Blue Sky Software Consulting Firm MNGT 6000-Integrated Studies in Management People clearly are an organization’s most critical resource. Their knowledge and skills along with their commitment‚ creativity‚ and effort are the basis for competitive advantage. It is people that have creative ideas for new products or for process improvements that devise marketing strategy or take technologies to the next level. As consultant for Blue Sky‚ it is my obligation to develop recommendations
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............................10 Jiawei Liu 2 Critical notes Dangerous Company Preface The book first caught my eye with its astonishing title “Dangerous Company”. Opening the book‚ I found the content is even more interesting – Management Consultants and the business they save and ruin. External consultants can be considered as external human resources for an enterprise and this source had become extremely powerful during the course of last several decades. The fact that this
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offer certification for corporate balance sheets 1. Arthur Andersen & Co. created an initial setup of the consulting unit when it formed the Administrative Accounting group in 1942. The Administrative Accounting main tasks were developing systems related to accounting ‚ and different methods and procedures for Arthur Andersen clients. In the 1950s‚ Arthur Andersen starts giving consulting services to companies and started implementing information systems‚ and
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