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

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.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

But sales hardly budged. Finally, in 2016, it took a new tack. Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. Since speed had always been a competitive differentiator, this effect was especially important, and probably canceled any sales gain from the greater choice.

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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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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 4, 2022

The complications stemming from a lack of stress resilience and capacity include increased turnover, decreased productivity, decreased customer satisfaction, and decreased performance at an organizational level. care from research, practice, policy and industry perspectives. Lysaght, R., Graham, I. & Oakley, P. Loehr, J., &

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% It costs more money to provide quality products and services. George Carlin. *

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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. 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.

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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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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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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.

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BCG

JUNE 7, 2016

Focus Tuesday, June 07, 2016. He was one year into a large-scale transformation that was focused on growth through a shift into premium products. The company had invested millions of dollars to develop an innovative product that warranted higher prices. The early results had been promising: initial sales were strong.

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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.

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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. The answer is yes, based on the activity level of everybody we know in the M&A/buy-sell industry. Synergistic product line firm. Pretty small. Easy money.

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MishTalk

JULY 15, 2015

Many economists expect the Fed to act as early as September; others say the central bank is likely delay the move until December or even 2016. Industrial production barely bounced. Industrial production barely bounced. Retail sales are dismal. Hey Janet, What Day Is It? Is that your real concern?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. and 2.2%, respectively.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. Then the disruptor improves its performance over time, eventually catching the industry either unaware or unable to adapt. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

There were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail, according to bankruptcydata.com, up 30% from 2016. For instance, retailers are increasingly expecting in-store employees to serve customers who order online, by shipping products to those customers or enabling them to pick up their orders in the store. This year is expected to be even worse.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, plenty of other organic products, including vegetables, milk, and tea, have become widely consumed, at least by affluent, health-conscious city dwellers. First, the conventional wine industry saw it as a threat. The product was perceived as more prone to spoilage since it typically lacked added sulfites.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The big one in 2016, if not always, is the employees. A lot of company’s get jobs/orders without bids or quotes (or be the only company quoting the job) because the customer knows it will be a quality product at a fair price. But it can be just as important in manufacturing, distribution, and many service industries.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

of China’s exports in 2016, according to the same report. Copying techniques have improved so much that some counterfeits now look just like the originals, while online sales make fakes even harder to spot. A store that guarantees the authenticity of all products it sells is a big relief for them.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. We should note that this organization is one of the top performers in its industry, so the baseline performance was already high. Our work with hundreds of companies offers a clear and simple answer.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category.

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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. Expand from U.S.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. How it will impact business, industry, and society. What about the automation of the production line?

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LSA Global

AUGUST 26, 2019

From 2002 to 2016, once people saw that eating 50 hotdogs, once considered impossible, was possible, every new contestant started eating 50 or more hotdogs. Then in 2016, Joey Chestnut consumed 70 hotdogs. For 26 years (1974 to 2000), the hotdog eating record was between 10-20 hot dogs. The Application in Business.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This is resulting in lower import volumes, less freight to move and faltering industrial production. Rail has been hit particularly hard by the rapid drop in industrial commodities caused by the steady decline in industrial production. Positives for Production? percent but sales are down 3.7

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 6, 2015

percent in 2016. The downgrades come after central banks in major industrial economies have cut rates to near zero and spent around $7 trillion in quantitative easing programs in the seven years since the global financial crisis. percent in 2016, the Eurozone is forecast to grow by 1.5 percent this year and by 3.6 percent and 1.6

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

.” Startups such as Wealthfront, Personal Capital, and Betterment launched robo-advisors as industry disruptors, and incumbents, such as Schwab’s (Intelligent Advisor), Vanguard (Personal Advisor Services), Morgan Stanley and BlackRock have joined the fray with their own hybrid machine/advisor solutions. 5 trillion to U.S. $7

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

In early 2016 economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson published an influential paper that highlighted some of the costs of global trade. as many as one million manufacturing jobs since 1999, had lowered wages, and had not led to the new jobs and industries that trade proponents had promised. And the new U.S. innovation.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 times Vormetric’s sales.

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