Alyson Woodard: Exec Leads Team Through Rebrand, Reestablishes Momentum
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Alyson Woodard was promoted to run the 3rd largest consumer market in the AT&T portfolio managing a $4.3B P&L budget, 300+ company owned as well as franchise retail stores and managing a 1200+ team of frontline employees. Alyson was tasked to quickly uncover root causes of market share erosion, stabilize the decline and return the market
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Gene Ciemny: Procurement Consultant Creates Centralized System for Global Company
Wednesday, 04 January 2023
Gene Ciemny was requested by The Washington Post’s CFO to become an independent consultant and separate from IBM. With IBM’s consent, he signed a long-term consulting agreement to lead the transformation from a decentralized purchasing entity to a cohesive Shared Services Organization (SSO). However, developing a centralized procurement function required decision-making autonomy from the business
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Jimmy McConnell: Purchasing Leader Builds Purchasing Program Via SAP
Monday, 19 December 2022
Jimmy McConnell came to work in Delaware on January 6th, 2019; the company had SAP, but they did not use the software as it was designed. The Purchasing department had evolved into more of a customer service department for all the managers of the company to give little projects to. There were no internal controls
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Michael Ray: Op Exec Builds Enduring Strategic Retail Upgrades
Thursday, 22 September 2022
Michael Ray is a change management, result-focused, operations leader who introduced innovative approaches to a perplexing retail challenge which resulted in extremely high profits and improvements that stood the test of time. Here is his story: The company’s resort stores in Florida, Arizona, and California were underperforming in the areas of average stores sales, comparative
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Lisa Hendrickson: Corporate Strategist Takes On Labor-Market Shift Paradigm
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Senior Corporate Strategist, Lisa Hendrickson, has a firm grasp in Board & Stakeholder Relations, Employee & Labor Relations, Cross-Functional Collaboration, and Developing High-Performing Talent. Below, is her description of the Great Revival Plan and how to integrate this into your company’s employee attraction and retention planning: Employers are losing a record number of employees not
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Joel Mossburg: $56M Turnaround in 6-Months, Cost Savings 3 Years in a Row & 0% Turnover
Friday, 24 June 2022
Joel Mossburg assumed responsibility for a struggling purchasing organization that was not meeting its annual savings targets. The group also had a high turnover rate, losing more than 25% of its staff each year. The Senior Supply Chain and Finance Executive was micromanaged by a Global Vice President, who had been with the company for
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Jeff Hosken: Improving Safety for 9500 employees with a 30% Decrease in Cost
Friday, 17 June 2022
For reasons of safety and based on past incidents, the Indian government requires companies to safely transport female employees working during hours of darkness to and from their homes. Particularly for companies operating Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centers, this results in most employees being transported 24 hours per day, six days per week, year-round. Since
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Philip Macey: $175.5M Project Comes to Life, Despite Severe Restrictions
Saturday, 11 June 2022
After over a decade, a long sought-after municipal project was finally brought to market, and to the surprise of everyone pursuing, it had changed dramatically. The project had been expanded and would be contracted for in-complex design plus a construction single contract model. “The leadership who were pursuing this were faced with an entirely new
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Matthew Jones: $40M Increase by Securing Cooperation of Government and Private Sector
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
“The destination’s promotional budget was driven by tax revenues,” says Senior Management Executive, Matthew Jones. “These capped the amount of annual growth possible. The competition enjoyed more expansive funding giving each a competitive advantage in sales and marketing campaigning. “I used an existing economic improvement program to access an additional $4 million in incremental tax
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Bonnie Hinze: 100% Increase in the Number of Resourced Long Term Technology Initiatives
Monday, 09 May 2022
Bonnie Hinze is a Technology Strategy expert. Her company committed $1 billion to expanding manufacturing plants to meet the increased demand anticipated from new product introductions and asked her to take charge and see that the technology required to accomplish the needed happened. Unfortunately, the growth demands lacked organizational buy-in, prioritization, and resourcing. Bonnie initiated
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