Turnaround
TURNAROUND should be read by those in management positions in any business looking to gain a competitive advantage or to increase their efficiency and profitability. The story follows two business professionals mentored by an experienced troubleshooter who take on and turnaround a failing family-owned manufacturing business resolving its Commercial and Operational inefficiencies and its general lack of leadership. They apply well-respected business techniques including the Theory of Constraints to firstly save and then grow the business. TURNAROUND is written as a novel so is appropriate for experienced executives and student alike.
Ian Davies has worked for the last 46 years in the aerospace and defence industry. In that time from starting as an apprentice he held a number of senior General Management/Managing Director positions in large UK and US Corporations and also UK SMEs in the UK and Poland. His work experience covered responsibility for all P&L and Strategic management activity from Sales and Business Development through Commercial and Operational management. He completed a fast-track Masters Degree in Business Management at the age of 45 and now works as a self-employed Business Management consultant in the South of England providing support and advice to SME manufacturing and engineering businesses across the UK, Poland and the USA.