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Wholesale Trade: Sales Down, Inventories Up; GDP Estimate Revised Lower Again; Sticking With Recession Call

MishTalk

The US Commerce Department Monthly Wholesales Report for January 2015 shows sales are down while inventories continue to rise. Wholesale Trade Sales Sales down 3.1% from the revised December level Sales for December revised lower by 0.5% Sales down 1.0% from December Sales of nondurable goods were down 4.6%

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Japan Exports and Trade Balance vs. the Yen; Abenomics in Review

MishTalk

The Yen was in this general area, at times, in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, and 2014. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the value of Japan’s exports is 23 percent below a March 2008 peak, even as those of South Korea, the U.S. This weakness is negative for an economy that suffered a blow to domestic demand from an April sales-tax increase.

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business

Other failed products either answer a question no one cares about or are the wrong answer to the right question – Google Glass or the Segway personal transporter, for example. The product, owned by Germany’s Brandstatter Group, generated 90% of the firm’s $696 million in sales last year. Most definitely.

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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business

For example, Mercadona, a good jobs retailer that’s Spain’s largest supermarket chain, uses its employees’ creative and problem-solving skills to suggest product, packaging, and transportation improvements that have already saved the company millions of euros.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

2008 was when the split came, and Booz Allen Hamilton (parent company) divided in 2. Transportation. With the large government consulting portfolio as the core for Booz, the firm started with long legacy recurring relationships – which means less sales time (with 0 revenue) and more funded project utilization. Industrials.

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business

Proponents of this view cite companies such as LinkedIn (founded in 2002 and recently acquired by Microsoft), which ostensibly operates in 200 countries, Airbnb (2008) in 190, and Uber (2009) in 68. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. And I should add that it isn’t just techies who take this perspective.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.