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

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

Speaking about the risk-bearing events affecting aerospace engineering projects, we can divide them into three groups: project management, engineering risks, and those that are typical for the aerospace and defense industry. Risks specific for the aerospace and defense industry. Competition at the domestic and international markets.

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Engineering Management How To Risk Analysis 98

Tom Spencer

MARCH 18, 2017

She danced to requests and wittily answered customers’ questions on topics which ranged from product information and weather forecasts to their love life. Even marketing professionals nowadays might need to understand data analytics, SEO optimization or how to develop advanced algorithms.

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Marketing Emotional Intelligence System Data 84

BCG

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. lthough the engineering, construction, and services (ECS) industry continues to lag substantially behind the broader market, a doom-and-gloom outlook is by no means warranted. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation. The following are among the report’s key findings.

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BCG

APRIL 20, 2016

Article Wednesday, April 20, 2016. The US consumer packaged goods industry registered its strongest growth in four years in 2015, and much of the fuel was provided by small and midsize producers of healthy, protein-rich foods and beverages.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

during the 2016 state, congressional, and presidential elections. It’s also important to note that the pharmaceutical industry also considers whether a drug can limit the need for additional treatments. The pricing of prescription drugs has been a hotly debated topic for the last several years with it reaching a crescendo in the U.S.

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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? The answer is yes, based on the activity level of everybody we know in the M&A/buy-sell industry.

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Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

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.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Energy Transportation Policies McKinsey 88

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

Marketing 45

Marketing Policies Government Research 45

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.

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 49

Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

The topic of industry disruption — “a process whereby a smaller company with fewer resources is able to successfully challenge established incumbent businesses” — is rife with misconceptions. Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Industry Retail Accenture Transportation 28

The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 15, 2019

Here’s the opening of an email to executives in the Insurance Industry interested in increasing sales: We’ve all seen this opera a thousand times: Yes, insurance salespeople have been the victim of vicious stereotypes. Yeah, it can be overwhelming doing all that marketing stuff. What jokes does the industry tell on itself?

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Insurance Insurance Industry Course 88

MishTalk

JANUARY 3, 2016

Part of the decline is due to the oil industry collapse. 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. Signs of a Soft Rebound?

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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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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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Productivity Media Enterprise Analysis 28

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Central banks pursue “inflation at any cost” in order to oil the wheels of the credit markets. In 2016, Brexit and Trump’s victory came as a one-two punch. Rising prices over time create an incentive for production to move abroad, and the resulting decrease in productive capacity causes a society to decline.

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Banking Balance Sheet Financial Real Estate 120

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2016

This shift is starting to pose an existential question for the automobile industry: What sort of cars will we need in 10 years? If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line.

Industry 28

Industry Engineering Transportation Construction 28

Tsavo Neal

APRIL 27, 2017

But, how you present yourself is critical for marketing and selling your services. This is more than how you dress — it’s your office, your marketing material, your brand — and yes, your website. This article lists relevant website and digital marketing statistics for consultants. Outbound Phone Marketing.

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

Today, in just about every industry, companies are exploring—or pursuing—digital transformations to address multiple needs, including rising customer expectations and the need to adapt ever quicker to disruptive new business models and capabilities. See “Simplifying IT to Accelerate Digital Transformation,” BCG article, April 2016.)

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Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Article Tuesday, September 06, 2016. Having reshaped the print media and music industries, digital disruption is now sweeping through the rest of media in similar fashion, rendering traditional video distribution models outmoded. Now, it’s TV’s turn.

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freshminds

MARCH 22, 2016

If anyone is anyone in retail, the annual coming together of industry bosses at Retail Week Live is a big date in your calendar. The popular news website www.retail-week.com puts together this conference to allow a fantastic networking opportunity for retail professionals who are in its readership.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Dealing with today’s digital disruption begins by understanding how it differs from past industry changes. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades. No industry is immune. A few key elements distinguish this era of change from the past.

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Industry Enterprise Boston Consulting Group Benchmarking 28

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. Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many industries.

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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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Intellectual Property Data Deloitte Energy 60

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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Marketing Advertising Ethics Data 28

ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Regardless of the Industry, size of the Business or state of the Business, we found Profit Leakage in every single Business we surveyed! In 2016, ConsultX launched a Business Consulting Software, with a specific portion of the application dedicated to calculating Profit Leakage.

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Cash Flow ROI Operations Analysis 52

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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Sales Marketing Tools Telecommunications 28

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

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. But no two tech companies are quite alike, and a reductive view of the technology industry belies the fundamental differences between today’s tech giants.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

In my last post, I disaggregated the ‘tech’ industry into four clusters of business, based on a loose framework. voters ahead of the 2016 election. However: platforms selling services sometimes reshape the supply-side of an industry in ways not anticipated by regulation. Platforms selling hardware and software.

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Company Advertising Software Retail 68

BCG

AUGUST 15, 2016

Focus Monday, August 15, 2016. Yet as elemental as dairy is, its industry environment is anything but basic. Yet as elemental as dairy is, its industry environment is anything but basic. Dairy may be a global industry, but it is also very much a regional one, with a highly fragmented supply. That’s no surprise.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Founded in 1983 by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. The firm is a strong niche player, distinguished in its speciality of sales and marketing consulting.

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

No industry is failing faster than retail. It also hurts the brands sold inside the stores, which in part explains why consumer product giants like Procter & Gamble are seeing their sales stagnate for products like Tide detergent, Gillette razors, Pampers diapers, and Crest toothpaste. Penney, and Barnes & Noble.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 7, 2016

Acquired in 2009 by The Nielsen Company, a world leader in market research, and with only one location in downtown Chicago, the Cambridge Group has taken the most basic concept of “supply and demand” and concluded that there is a better way. Go to Market Optimization. Market Entry Strategy. Industries. Innovation.

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Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

BCG

JANUARY 11, 2017

This article is an excerpt from The Most Innovative Companies 2016: Getting Past “Not Invented Here,” (BCG report, January 2017). A few years ago, Brooks Automation, a leading supplier of equipment and components to the semiconductor industry, was seeking new revenue streams. Article Thursday, January 12, 2017.

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