Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Barlow research – Two-thirds of lower middle-market business owners are expected to retire.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

The best theme on the market for consultants is X Theme by Themeco. X Theme is the perfect theme for creating effective digital marketing materials for consultants. Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! EXPERIENCE.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Marketing 48

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. billion) in the year to end-March 2016.

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BCG

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Article Wednesday, October 05, 2016. The domestic car market rebounded strongly after the global financial crisis to become the sixth-­­largest in the world—2.6 Manufacturers responded by building new plants to expand production. Manufacturers responded by building new plants to expand production.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steen Jakobsen, Saxo Bank's CIO and chief economist is back with real predictions for 2016, following yesterday's "Outrageous Predictions". My "Real" 2016 Outlook US Dollar will weaken – It will follow the “ normal path ” of weaker US$ post the first hike. 2016 will be a year of two halves: A bad start, and a good finish.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Their forecast came out late this afternoon, but it did beat the market close. Latest forecast — January 15, 2016 The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the fourth quarter of 2015 is 0.6 Census Bureau and the industrial production release from the Federal Reserve. percent on January 8.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 5, 2016

I expect monthly jobs reports in 2016 will shock to the downside. Unless manufacturing turns here, 2016 looks to be a rough year for jobs, especially vs. expectations. Why 2016 Will Shock to the Downside! Manufacturing is not the only reason to think jobs will sour in 2016. ISM a Leading Indicator of Jobs?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. At end of 2016, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky asked on Twitter what the company could launch in 2017. At end of 2016, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky asked on Twitter what the company could launch in 2017.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2016

The Wall Street Journal discusses the 2016 forecast in Will Business Spending and Profits Rebound This Year? with thousands of products from Scotch tape to smartphone materials, forecasts capital spending roughly unchanged from 2015. You can start planning for what you’re going to be investing in 2016 and 2017, and that’s huge.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Considering how Germany anchors a European continent plagued by high unemployment and slow growth, its labor market is on fire. trillion in 2016. Figures for 2016 forecast a surplus of $25 billion. Analysts criticized the country’s labor market institutions as particularly inflexible. With just 2.6

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. market for e-commerce processing was saturated, went with the latter.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is why they are actively implementing the concept of smart factories that integrate data, sensors, and the latest technologies (AI, IoT, 5G, data analytics) in the production process. Augmented and virtual reality solutions allow manufacturers to monitor and control the production process without the need to be on-site.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2018

Communicators and marketers can now adopt a personalized approach to their work, ideally one based on behavioral science. But the execution lags behind the science while the claims of some marketers as to what personality marketing can do far exceed it. We believe that includes personality marketing.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Report Tuesday, September 20, 2016. By eliminating constraints on content distribution and space, OTT has introduced new types of content creators to the market. OTT encompasses the distribution of video content “over the top” of traditional distribution technologies.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. Competition at the domestic and international markets. AS9100 is an international standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry, which aims to improve safety and reliability of aerospace products. Talent management. .

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Accordingly, in the latter half of 2016, CenturyLink made a small investment in an AI-powered sales assistant made by Conversica to see if it could help the company identify hot leads without hiring an expensive army of sales reps to comb through the leads. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

This continues through the various pathways in order to search and navigate through the website, for example 'premium best buys', 'in demand' products, fly out pictures for further visual recognition and extensive filtering options for advanced search as well as a quick search.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Not only was December industrial production an awful -0.4%, November was revised lower from -0.6% The Econoday Consensus Estimates for industrial production and manufacturing were -0.2% December was not a good month for the industrial economy as industrial production fell a sharper-than-expected 0.4 respectively.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Persuading consumers to pay more for a product by introducing some kind of “premium” element into it has always been a challenging task—but it was one that big, established brands had managed with a reasonable amount of success until recent years. Smaller brands have been picking up the slack.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Every business is looking for ways to continually improve the productivity of its employees. One research study found that the productivity of workers using wearable technology increased by 8.5%. They can then perform analytics on these data in order to train their workers to be more efficient and productive in the workplace.

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. See “Simplifying IT to Accelerate Digital Transformation,” BCG article, April 2016.)

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

A radical demographic shift is transforming the nature of consumer markets. Marketing savvy just isn’t enough to track these consumers. And North American millennials don’t trust company claims about their products, but are happy to let a room in their house to a stranger who they trust because of an Airbnb rating.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Interview Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Roland Harste is the senior vice president for global marketing at Swarovski, a producer of cut crystals and crystal products since 1895.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 24, 2018

Chinese people really love their smart phones, and daily life is also being transformed by the many apps used for everything from hailing a car with Didi (the company that bought Uber China in 2016) to ordering food delivery with Ele.me So, what was the new product idea? Once a product takes off, sales are likely to sky-rocket.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

According to Deloitte, 92% of the 26,000 blockchain-based projects created since 2016 are now dead. You need to do some market research and a few back-of-the-envelope calculations to determine the size of the target market, whether there is sufficient demand for the solution, and how much potential customers may be willing to pay.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2018

Learning from the experience of Uber and other tech firms, it appears that the paradigm has shifted from products to solutions, from product selling to problem solving. So much so, that we might ultimately expect a small number of massive robo-advisory firms to completely dominate this market. The race is on! Image: Pexels.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Article Tuesday, September 06, 2016. See The Digital Revolution Is Disrupting the TV Industry , BCG Focus, March 2016; “The Future of Television: Where the US Industry Is Headed,” BCG article, June 2016; and “How Telcos Can Become Video’s Next Big Star,” BCG article, June 2016.) Now, it’s TV’s turn.

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BCG

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Report Wednesday, November 30, 2016. The countries’ gross domestic products have continued to grow strongly. Nordic equity markets have done well. In a world of economic uncertainty, Nordic countries have stood apart. And the countries have a good track record of building sustainable growth companies.

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BCG

AUGUST 23, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 23, 2016. To capture the immense opportunities in emerging markets, pharmaceutical companies require highly targeted strategies. And what works in developed markets won’t necessarily work in emerging economies. And what works in developed markets won’t necessarily work in emerging economies.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. on Thursday said they will start experimenting with unmanned taxi service beginning in 2016. This technology can be fitted into regular production trucks and is a huge step towards fully autonomous transportation. Reader Alain writes. "

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Our first test was in the field; we teamed up with the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) to conduct an experiment during their 2016 Holiday Campaign. In an online experiment, we showed one group of study subjects images of one, two, or three loose beers with no product packaging, and then asked how many additional bottles they’d want to buy.

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BCG

APRIL 20, 2016

Article Wednesday, April 20, 2016. In fact, our research found that companies such as Quest Nutrition, Fairlife, Bai, Vita Coco, and Sargento Foods—all of which target the market for high-protein foods and beverages and healthy, “mindful” snacks—are among the top performers in the entire industry.

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BCG

AUGUST 15, 2016

Focus Monday, August 15, 2016. The markets with the greatest growth potential are also the least developed in infrastructure and consumer awareness. New value-added segments and alternative products have taken off with surprising speed, intensifying competitive pressures and the need to innovate constantly. That’s no surprise.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Yet that income stream is weakening, as low-risk investment yields dip toward 0% and central banks continue to drain the bond markets. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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