Ben Harrison: CFO Creates 31% Debt Cut, Reducing Payments by $40K /mo.
Sunday, 23 October 2022
When Chief Financial Officer, Ben Harrison arrived at the company, their credit facility was maxed out. They had substantial amounts of uncollected receivables, angry vendors, and were heading towards violating their banking covenants. They had spent the last 13 months with a remote resource on an interim basis that did not provide mentorship, guidance, or
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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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Paulo Reátegui: SMB CEO Reboots Company, Focusses on People
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
The founder and owner of the business ran the organization as a “one-man show” making all important decisions and limiting growth to what a single person could manage. When the omnibus leader unexpectedly died, clients, employees, and new shareholders needed convincing evidence that the company would survive. The company needed a survival plan. “I realized
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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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John Risley: $25M on New Product Introduction Against Big Competitors
Wednesday, 13 April 2022
How people drink coffee at home has changed dramatically in recent years. The growth in Starbucks and in your local, premium coffee shop began to train consumers on the importance of quality and freshness spawning the growth of single-serve coffee at home. As the Director of Sales & Marketing for the Senseo coffee brand, John
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