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For Sale, Cheap: 'Old GM' Peddles an Empire's Remains
By: Mike Spector
The Wall Street Journal 10/2/2009

DETROIT -- On the 39th floor of the Renaissance Center, General Motors Co. Chief Executive Frederick "Fritz" Henderson and his managers are trying to shape the car maker's future. High on their list are the Volt electric car and a new marketing campaign.

Two floors below, Al Koch and several dozen professional bankruptcy administrators are trying to dispose of GM's past. They are seeking buyers for shuttered car plants saddled with outdated equipment and former GM sites tainted by toxic waste.



AlixPartners Ranks No. 1 Among Business Advisory Services Firms In Consulting Magazine Survey
Survey Also Shows AlixPartners Highest in ‘Morale’ and ‘Greatest Sense of Helping Clients’ Categories
Consulting Magazine 8/28/2009

In a business environment that has seen more and more of the world’s leading companies turning to advisors to help them stay healthy or to help rescue them from distress, a recent survey by Consulting Magazine rates AlixPartners as the number-one business advisory services (BAS) firm, and sixth among consulting firms of all types. The firm also ranked highest in the “morale” and “greatest sense of helping clients” categories in the magazine’s 2009 “Best Firms to Work For” survey, which gathered information from 236 major firms in BAS, human resources, information technology, operations management and strategy consulting.



How to Spot - and Help - an At-Risk Supplier
By: Foster Finley, AlixPartners
Supply Chain Management Review 8/1/2009

Current economic realities make one thing clear: today's business continuity needs cannot be met by using yesterday's risk-management approaches. That's especially true when it comes to your suppliers, who should they falter have the potential for derailing your operations. Supply chain managers need new mechanisms to spot "at-risk" suppliers - and proven processes for intervening to reduce the impact of those suppliers' problems.



"Is IT A Ticking Time Bomb In Your Next Deal?"
By Bruce Myers & Chris Payne, AlixPartners | Buyouts
5/25/2009

When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, and the related due diligence, carve-out execution, and integration planning, one question that senior executives and board members never seem to ask often enough is, "Have we thought through the Information Technology [IT] issues?"



“AlixPartners Introduces New Outsourcing Tool that Determines ‘Best-Cost Countries’”
Mexico Surpasses China and India in the Analysis; China’s Total Costs Just 6% Below U.S.’s
5/14/2009

AlixPartners LLP, the global business advisory firm, today unveiled a unique new tool designed to give company managers and owners a much more precise understanding of which locale in the world is not just a low-cost country (LCC) for various manufactured components in today’s fast-changing global economic environment, but the best-cost country, or “BCC.”



For Retailers, A New Way to Rapidly Deploy Labor Force Reallocation Without Workforce Management Software and its Inherent Disadvantages
By: Joel Bines, Keith Jelinek and Russ Spieler - AlixPartners
Chain Store Age 1/22/2009

While supply chain and distribution efficiency has been a goal of retailers for many years, more retailers than ever are now looking toward the “front of the store,” particularly a better allocation of labor, for efficiency gains.