A New Assignment for Jim Robertson

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Case

Reference no. ESMT-309-0098-1

Subject category: Strategy and General Management

Authors: Ulf Schaefer (ESMT GmbH)

Published by: ESMT European School of Management and Technology

Originally published in: 2009

Version: 13 October 2009

Length: 9 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Transformation strategy; Departmental strategy; Crisis change; Turnaround; Communication of change; Change leadership

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Abstract

Jim Robertson was on his way to London on 6 January 2003 to start his new assignment. At 33, he was to be the new player in the London management team of Wisant, a technology consulting firm that thirteen years after its foundation already looked back on a lively and uneven history. This former new economy star was now fighting for survival in a market that had dramatically changed between 2000 and 2002. Wisant''s CEO James Watson had sent Jim to London to realign the managerial system of the UK subsidiary, which had experienced a significant drop in revenue over the previous 12 months.

Location:

Industry:

ICT (information and communications technologies)

Size:

150 employees

Other setting(s):

2003