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 percent after this morning's retail sales report from the U.S. The market laughed in their face.

Data 28

Data Retail Sales Report 28

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. Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? Similar firm in a different market.

Marketing 40

Marketing PricewaterhouseCoopers Cash Flow Banking 40

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. sales force teams. Where did ZS Associates begin, and what are they known for?

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Case Interview Interviews Sales Pharmaceuticals 100

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.

Marketing 47

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 47

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

billion industry by 2021, but its solutions are only as good as the data behind it. economy in 2016. Too many sales teams (and other departments) enter data by hand but create fresh entries instead of searching their systems and updating existing accounts, which muddies their data sets. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Sales 28

Sales Data Efficiency Retail 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 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 respectively.

Industry 28

Industry Productivity Construction Sales 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. Design isn’t magic.

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B2B Marketing Consulting Advertising 60

BCG

JUNE 20, 2016

Article Monday, June 20, 2016. China’s economy continues to make global headlines, with each uptick or downtick in GDP growth, industrial output, retail sales, or other measure pored over like tea leaves for what it portends. trillion over the next five years would be comparable to the world’s adding a consumer market 1.3

Course 69

Course Retail Survey Sales 69

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.

Marketing 37

Marketing Advertising Media Video 37

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.

Industry 28

Industry Retail Accenture Transportation 28

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.)

Telecommunications 61

Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

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. As an 'etailer', 40% of their sales already go through mobile and this app aims to create a social shopping community to play to this trend.

Retail 41

Retail Trends Sales Productivity 41

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges.

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Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

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.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow ROI Operations Analysis 52

BCG

APRIL 5, 2016

Article Tuesday, April 05, 2016. A quiet revolution has been happening in sales over the past several years. While many companies have continued to adhere to sales models developed a decade ago, “digital attackers” have been busy reinventing selling.

B2B 40

B2B Boston Consulting Group Sales Study 40

Tsavo Neal

MARCH 30, 2017

You can Google any question related to your business or industry and find an answer in seconds. Rather than blogs focused on a particular consulting industry, I’m listing blogs that are focused on business development, marketing, and sales for consultants and independent professionals.

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Consulting Journal Marketing Resources 120

MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Large US corporations posted their first decline in both earnings and sales since the great recession. Quarterly profits and revenue at big American companies are poised to decline for the first time since the recession, as some industrial firms warn of a pullback in spending. The industrial environment’s in a recession.

Sales 28

Sales Transportation Journal Retail 28

BCG

JULY 12, 2016

Focus Tuesday, July 12, 2016. The medical technology (medtech) sector of the health care industry has been highly attractive to investors for more than a decade, delivering total shareholder returns of nearly 350% between 2001 and 2015. In the first few years of the 2000s—the golden age for medtech—sales grew by double digits.

Company 40

Company Sales Industry Financial 40

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. Prasatporn Nilkumhaeng/EyeEm/Getty Images.

Retail 38

Retail Sales Productivity Industry 38

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), the blockchain-based fundraising model involving the sale of cryptocurrency tokens in a new venture, have also grown exponentially with more than $5 billion raised through ICOs in 2017. According to Deloitte, 92% of the 26,000 blockchain-based projects created since 2016 are now dead. To conclude.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Data Deloitte Energy 60

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.

Company 68

Company Advertising Operations Software 68

MishTalk

JULY 31, 2014

Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest carmaker by sales, reported an 8 per cent decline in sales in Russia in the first half of the year, compared to the same period a year earlier. Metro, the eurozone’s second-largest retailer, said events in Russia were creating risks for the group as it revealed sales had declined sharply in Ukraine.

Sales 72

Sales Deloitte Banking Retail 72

MishTalk

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Results show a complete failure on three fronts: retail sales are down, factory output is back in contraction, and the most humiliating of all, Japanese firms have outright rejected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plea for higher wages. Industrial output fell 1.0 Separate data showed that retail sales fell 1.0

Retail 28

Retail Sales Government Banking 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them.

Banking 35

Banking Government Policies Sales 35

MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2017

warned profit may grow less than anticipated only a few months ago, the latest sign that automakers’ heavy discounting and aggressive use of leasing to boost sales has created a supply glut hurting lenders and rental-car companies. We do expect the used-car market to rebound more in the second quarter.”. Ally Financial Inc.

Financial 49

Financial System Real Estate Sales 49

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 Once a product takes off, sales are likely to sky-rocket. or Meituan Waimai.

Trends 87

Trends Productivity Finance Report 87

MishTalk

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Retail sales reports on Wednesday have me thinking about the strength of the economy, commercial construction, jobs, and profit margins. Let''s start with a look at retail sales. Retail Sales Falter Amid Signs of Global Slowdown. Similarly, Bloomberg reports Weaker Retail Sales Signal Smaller Spending Boost.

Retail 71

Retail Sales Construction Benchmarking 71

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 18, 2018

In my last post, I disaggregated the ‘tech’ industry into four clusters of business, based on a loose framework. I categorise revenues into four streams: advertising, one-off service fees, subscriptions, and sales of hardware and software. voters ahead of the 2016 election. Platforms selling hardware and software.

Company 68

Company Advertising Software Retail 68

Martinka Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

The new buzzwords of 2016-17 are “Fake News” and “Alternative Facts”. Look at the Gallup list of least respected professions and you’ll see insurance sales people just above car salespeople, third from the bottom, with members of Congress being in the cellar. Now let’s look at my primary industry, the buying and selling of businesses.

Insurance 40

Insurance Insurance Banking Industry 40

LSA Global

JUNE 10, 2018

How the company culturally views areas like decisions, customers, markets, quality, and risk tolerance plays a key role in go-to-market strategy execution. The toxic sales culture at Wells Fargo essentially caused the company’s 2016 debacle and continues to cause serious problems. What Corporate Culture Is.

Culture 34

Culture Insurance Insurance Sales 34

Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat.

Chemicals 34

Chemicals Retail Case Interview Turnaround 34

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In industries being disrupted by new entrants with distinct business models, incumbents often have an important advantage: entrenched regulatory and legal barriers. These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

Government 33

Government Retail Sales Pharmaceuticals 33

Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2016

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. Sure enough, the Census Bureau just released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. Their data show that only 0.8

Retail 28

Retail Sales Real Estate Data 28

MishTalk

JULY 15, 2015

On the economy, Yellen said, "Prospects are favorable for further improvement in the US labor market and the economy more broadly. She didn't provide more specifics about the timing of the first hike in the Fed's benchmark rate since 2006, reiterating that it will depend on the progress shown by the economy and labor market.

Retail 28

Retail Benchmarking Policies Sales 28

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards. Example #2: Breaking into a new industry. into multiple global markets.

Transportation 45

Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 45

Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

Then the disruptor improves its performance over time, eventually catching the industry either unaware or unable to adapt. In our continuing work on Big Bang Disruption , we have noted several alternative paths to industry transformation. For now, Tesla has none of these.

Automotive 39

Automotive Transportation Productivity Retail 39