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List: Global Strategy Firms 2013

Tom Spencer

List of Global Strategy Firms in 2013. Maybe not, but seeing as Sydney is at the other end of the earth you would expect a truly global strategy firm to have an office there (if you want to see a list of purely Aussie strategy firms for 2013, click here ). In 2008, Booz separated its operations from the U.S. A fair litmus test?

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business

But sales hardly budged. Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. Each was set loose to develop or acquire products to satisfy those markets.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business

The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers. Operations in a Connected World. The call center logs customer complaints.

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Repair Regulations: Limiting Business Deductions

Women in Consulting

By: Renee Daggett In September 2013, the IRS released new rules regarding expensing repairs/supplies and depreciating assets. All tangible property expenditures with an acquisition or production cost under the stated threshold are to be charged to the expense accounts.

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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business

Car sales in the U.S. But car sales are now probably past a cyclical peak, not only in the U.S. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Given the shift in immediate U.S.

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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. Disgruntled distribution partners may retaliate in ways such as switching to rivals, favoring competing products, or even lobbying for legislative remedies. For example, Cree Inc.

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

Management Consulted

The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. Product and Service Innovation. Operations and Logistics. Consumer Products. 2004 – 2013.