Professional Documents
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Terms
Simple Definition
Ad hoc
Non-structure
Alignment
Agreement
Benchmark
A standard or point
of reference
Best practice
CAGR
Compound annual
growth rate
Capability
CAPEX
Change
management
Competitiveness
Capital
expenditure; or
cost on the
investment side
How to make
changes happen in
big organizations
Strength; ability to
compete
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Constraint
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Core business
Flagship; main
activity
Deliverables
End products of
consulting projects
Diagnostic
assessment
Initial research at
the beginning of
any consulting
project
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Driver
Cause
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End-to-end
Comprehensive;
complete
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Feasibility
How possible
something is
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Fitness
Appropriateness
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Footprint
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Full-fledged
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Function
Significant and
powerful presence
in something
Completely
developed or
established
E.g: HR, Finance,
Operation,
Strategy, etc.
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Gaps
Difference
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Governance
Leadership &
management
system
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Impeccable
Perfect
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In line
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Infrastructure
System; foundation
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Initiatives
Actions
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Leverage
Taking the
advantage of
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Levers
Ways to improve
things
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Market
perspective
Market
understanding
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Mechanism
Method
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Milestones
Mini goals
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OPEX
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Optimization
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Organization
Operating
expenditure; or
cost on the
operation side
Improving toward
the best possible
outcome
How different parts
of a company is
How efficient and
effective things are
run
Significantly and
massively changing
something
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Productivity
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Restructuring
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Rigorous
Comprehensive
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Roadmap
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Root cause
Bottleneck that
causes the problem
Segment
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Soundness
Goodness
Strategy
Where to play;
What to play; How
to play
Streamline
In organized
system and with
specializations
XYZs business support functions are largely oversized, overlapped and can be streamlined.
Small
Subscale
Synergy
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Transformation
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Turnaround
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Utilization
Things when
combined create
greater value than
sum of each part
Significantly and
massively changing
something
Bringing something
from slums to the
surface
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Value chain
Type of breaking
down business
activities based on
chronical steps
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Value
proposition
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