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Recession - An Opportunity to Slingshot Your Business Past the Competition

A new recession playbook finds opportunities to slingshot past the competition by taking control through five key...

Are you Ready for Process Mining?

Process mining can address common business challenges and provide actionable value. Consider how your organizatio...

Why EVA Expectations Aren't Always Realized in Transactions

This newsletter is devoted to the pursuit of Economic Value-Add (EVA) in business – how it is useful, its impa...

Making EVA Work for You: Practical Steps to Economic Value Add

Organizations, whether publicly listed corporations or private equity portfolio businesses, have a common goal...

Licking the Data Spoon: Leveraging Insights From Existing Data Before a Digital Transformation

As we approach the holiday season, I recalled one of my favorite activities as a kid: helping bake holiday coo...

Improving Shareholder Value through Economic Value Add

Over the last few years, Private Equity (PE) firms have seen exceptional returns on their portfolios and, coup...

Monthly Edit: Effective Brand Strategy Begins with Culture

Effective brand strategy is an influential aspect of any business and can give your company an edge in an incr...

Get the Most Out of Your Data for Strategy Success

Data from a wide array of sources is at the heart of evaluating business strategy and can provide an assessment o...

Spotlight Interview: LeAnne Stewart

LeAnne Stewart is the Chief Financial Officer of Axia Women’s Health. Please join us for this special spotlight i...

Monthly Edit: Business Strategy – Too Many Choices?

Dusting off my personal library over the weekend, I had a revelation: there were more business strategy books ...

Development of Organizational Strategy

To be effective, strategy requires situational awareness, vision setting, objective setting, and comprehensive pl...

Monthly Edit: The Role of Finance in SaaS

The SaaS industry has exploded with the advancement and proliferation of technology over the past 20 years. Th...

Developing a SaaS Sales Incentive Plan

In this article, we will discuss numerous levers that can be pulled when designing a SIP, and additional spiffs t...

Breakroom Book Review: American Icon

Recounting the trying times of the American automotive industry following the Great Recession of 2008, Amer...

Spotlight Interview: Dr. Sridhar Balasubramanian

Peripheral Vision: An Interview with Dr. Sridhar Balasubramanian, SLKone Advisory Partner and Professor of Market...

How to Survive in a World of KPIs

When used correctly, KPIs clarify business operations, guide strategy, and drive activities for outsized impact a...

Monthly Edit: Growth Through Failure

I recently experienced a quintessential consultant failure. The project was interesting. The client was engage...

Unlocking Operational Excellence with Process Mining

Process mining can help organizations enable operational resilience, reduce financial and operational risks, cata...

Spotlight Interview: Shan Jegatheeswaran

Shan Jegatheeswaran is the SVP of Digital for the Oil Field Services business unit at Baker Hughes Company. SL...

Monthly Edit: Do You Know Why You're Doing That?

At SLKone, we’re big fans and proponents of process. With smart, routine processes in place, organizations can...

Breakroom Book Review: The Leader's Bookshelf

This month, we decided to mix it up. Instead of reading a book on leadership, we decided to read a book about ...

Spotlight Interview: Andrew Klemm

Business ...

Breakroom Book Review: The Biggest Bluff

Have you ever felt the desire to start completely fresh? To become a verified novice in a new-to-you field? Ma...

Breakroom Book Review: The Hard Thing About Hard Things

The Hard Thing About Hard Things chronicles the challenges that author Ben Horowitz encountered during ...

A Process for Business Transformation: Enabling Process and People with Digital Transformation

This is the fourth and final article of our “Process for Business Transformation” series continues to explore the...

Monthly Edit: The Future is Now with Hybrid Consulting Models

The archetype of a consultant is one of a road warrior. Wake up early on a Monday morning to catch a flight on...

Spotlight Interview: Dr. Emily Block

Business as a Science: An...

Monthly Edit: Onward & Upward in the Face of Uncertainty

Instead of focusing on the undeniable strain that COVID-19 has put on the global economy and its businesses si...

Breakroom Book Review: Extreme Ownership

Chronicling both heroic and tragic war stories, Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jo...

Spotlight Interview: Dan Kowalski

Busi...

Monthly Edit: Business Development and COVID-19: Adapting to Thrive

As an industry, consulting is often viewed as a discretionary expense. Hastily categorized as non-essential, o...

Breakroom Book Review: Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know was the ina...

A Process for Business Transformation: Making the Link from Activities to Roles to People

Welcome to the third installment in our series, “A Process for Business Transformation”. In previous installments...

A Process for Business Transformation: A Defined Approach to Assess Process

Welcome to the second article in our series, “A Process for Business Transformation”. In this article, we will ad...

The Business Restart Incubator: Spotlight on the Finance Function

Business leaders are facing unrelenting pressure from investors, employees, and other stakeholders to make drasti...

The Business Restart Incubator: Spotlight on Supply Chain Impact

It’s been four months since the first confirmed case of COVID-19, and it still feels like there are more question...

When the tunnel ends, will your business be ready to operate in the new light?

Struck by COVID-19, the business world is wading through a dark and very long tunnel, blind to their North Star. ...

A Process for Business Transformation

Focusing the energy of transformation through a process approach

Business in the Time of Coronavirus

COVID-19 has created a dynamic economic climate unlike anything that has come before. It has fractured business m...

Think. Forward! (Part Four)

Use Deliberate Thinking to get back in business after the gut punch of COVID-19 in the Private Equity world.

Think. Forward! (Part Three)

Use Deliberate Thinking to get back in business after the gut punch of COVID-19 in the Private Equity world.

Think. Forward! (Part Two)

Use Deliberate Thinking to get back in business after the gut punch of COVID-19 in the Private Equity world.

Think. Forward! (Part One)

Use Deliberate Thinking to get back in business after the gut punch of COVID-19 in the Private Equity world.

When the platform growth engine sputters, has the acquisition playbook gone stale?

The platform ‘buy, build, and grow’ is the core strategy that underpins the investment thesis for small to mid-si...

M&A Integration: The Keys To Success

Combining two similar functional areas may seem like an easy task, but when it comes to mergers and acquisitions,...

What Does Cash Management Actually Mean?

Type-casted as a taboo subject, cash management can be misinterpreted and consequentially mismanaged. No business...

What Insights Are You Missing?

A leadership team is discussing the recent performance of its business and is attempting to develop action plans ...

Is Your PMO Delivering Results?

A robust and operationalized Project Management Office (PMO) can be felt throughout an organization. Project mana...

Are You Addressing the ‘White Elephants’ in the Room?

The only thing you’re likely to see a domesticated elephant do these days is stand on a ball at the zoo or paint ...