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Japan Tells Firms "Stop Sitting on Cash", Ignore the Lack of Customers

MishTalk

Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Okumas clients "are not investing, not even to raise efficiency, so we are not investing either," he says. Strategist News : Best Business Blogs 2011. -->. Sitka Pacific. Recent Posts.

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Building a Direct-to-Consumer Strategy Without Alienating Your Distributors

Harvard Business

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

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Executives on Demand: What are part-time CEOs and why does every business need one?

SkillQuo

Now, the on-demand executive phenomenon has truly spread across the world and according to American consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the UK market for on-demand executives is one of the world’s most developed, accounting for $1.8 McKinsey research in 2011 found that 58% of U.S. An example: Marketing.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. The company failed on multiple fronts.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In 2011, Oliver Wyman ranked 7th in Vault’s Consulting 50 (combining “best to work for” and overall prestige). Oliver Wyman’s CEO, John Drzik, states that the long-term aspiration is to be recognized widely in the market as the gold standard in consulting.

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5 Practical Ways to Engage a Geographically Distributed Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DATASTAX

Harvard Business

People who were co-located bristled at the idea of having to go through the extra steps of running an efficient distributed meeting when only one or two people were not in the room with them. So for the inside sales teams, we still needed to be distributed, but distributed in a co-located fashion. That meant creating regional offices.

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