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Sales & Operations Planning

The implementation of an integrated S&OP is one of the main activities carried out by Bonfiglioli Consulting Team to support the company in achieving its goals. The S&OP key aspect is to share and formalize the constraints on one hand of production processes; and on the other of the service levels expected by customers. In […]

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How do you adapt your organization to the post-corona work environment?

The time and location of our work once seemed so obvious. We usually worked from 9 to 5, at a fixed location in the office. Corona has forever changed the function of the office building and the way we work. Corporate Anthropologist Jitske Kramer skews it all: ‘work has left the office’. We work online […]

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The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer

Today, a CEO needs to be much more than that. In many dimensions. At the end of the day, executive leadership is about engagement. Engagement creates motivation, movement and momentum. And that is critical for your company to succeed. There are at least four places where it is your job to create engagement. Learn more

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Next Normal (I): Priorities to build competitive advantages

The pandemic we’re going through has impacted business activity in every sector with different effects and recovery expectations. For this reason, companies are managing the crisis in order to evolve towards this new situation.It now seems clear that the so-called “Next Normal” will produce significant and lasting changes, even within the least affected sectors. In addition, […]

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Complexity Can Destroy Your Business

It is present in every organisation, but if it spreads uncontrollably, it will make you less efficient, less effective and less scalable. On the other hand: Believing that you can create and lead an organisation completely without it is naive. It is there. And it has to be managed.Size is often confused with complexity. “We […]

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Energizing secondary sales for a leading aftermarket brand in CVs

A leading brand in Commercial Vehicle aftermarket segment was experiencing declining sales and struggling to cope with the evolving technological landscape. Avalon Consulting helped the client to transform its sales through data analytics and influencer engagement. Our recommendations helped the Client not only in reviving sales, but also in institutionalizing a sustainable model of growth. […]

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Increase your social impact and make a profit!

Organizations are increasingly expected to create social and environmental value in addition to financial value. This requires new strategies that not only impact the organization, but also our society as a whole; strategies from a holistic perspective. In recent months I have conducted scientific research into the implementation of sustainable strategies. In this blog I […]

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The Municipality of Amsterdam increases effectiveness through more change power

The municipality of Amsterdam is working on an organization that is maximally focused on results in the city. More efficient and smarter. The Amsterdammers central. TwynstraGudde trains employees and managers and thus increases the change power of the municipal organization. Amsterdammers often show that they can arrange many things themselves. The municipality wants to support […]

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Helping a Leading Hospitality Company Operationalize External Events Data

Global hospitality companies capture a wealth of information with every reservation: the rate, room type, reservation type, number of beds, and much more. They can also obtain information about their competitors’ performance through established data providers, like Smith Travel Research or TravelClick. Capitalizing on these data elements has become a standard practice for most hoteliers. […]

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State-of-the-Art E-Commerce Facility Saves Big with Engineered Labor Standards

Our consultants helped a Fortune 200 retailer build a world-class labor management program with cutting-edge performance technology to support the company’s highly automated e-commerce distribution center (DC). The result? An average monthly labor efficiency improvement of over 31 percent, translating into labor budget savings of over $1.5 million within the first year of the program. […]

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What can a program manager learn from a designer?

In recent weeks, I have caught myself more and more often playing with those air bubbles. My hands discovered that they especially liked to merge bubbles. It sometimes takes a while to find out from which side this works best, but then suddenly ‘hop’, 2 bells have become one bigger bell.I also had the same […]

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Looking To Level Up With SAAS?

The technology landscape is changing at a whirlwind pace: Look no further than the surge in Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption. As a result, the lines between business and technology responsibilities, capabilities, and processes are increasingly blurred. And operating models must keep up. A strong operating model, grounded in a cross-functional partnership between business […]