2008 2016 Operations Sales 
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 11, 2018
The technology industry is booming: in 2008, Microsoft was the only tech firm ranked in the world’s top 10 public companies by market capitalisation. Hardware and software sales – where a product is sold. Apple, now the world’s most valuable company, does the same through hardware, its operating system and its app store.
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? This as per bizbuysell.com. Pretty small. And guess what?
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Harvard Business
JANUARY 12, 2018
Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B Companies are both operators and investors.
Harvard Business
APRIL 14, 2017
Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 5, 2018
In sales-driven companies (think pharmaceuticals and industrial equipment), they are often field sales managers who direct dozens of salespeople in the highest-volume regions. The jobs are in sales, customer contact centers, and field service positions. Or they may be people who interact with customers after the sale.
Harvard Business
JUNE 20, 2017
Data is now the critical tool for managing many corporate functions, including marketing, pricing, supply chain, operations, and more. In 2016 the automaker launched the new model as recommended; a year later it found that ABS had predicted monthly sales for the first year with 93% accuracy.
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. Operating revenue decreased 15.9 Overoptimism 2008-2010 The SEP growth forecast for 2008 never turned negative. in October from 50.2
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