Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! Second question: is there similar activity with larger companies, small, mid-sized, and lower middle market firms? PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Pretty small.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 2, 2018

now in 2018 we are going to see even more ‘outing’ of inappropriate, inexcusable and intolerant attitudes and behaviors. What we are going to see for trends in 2018 has a theme which is ‘convergence’ the melding of science/health/technology at a higher level than we have seen as a human collective.

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Trends Talent Leadership Industry 22

Management Consulted

AUGUST 9, 2015

OC&C STRATEGY CONSULTANTS INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Today we continue our firm profile series with an in-depth review of OC&C Strategy Consultants. Known for its incredible family-style and entrepreneurial culture, relaxed work style, and long retention of employees, OC&C competes not only on strategy but also on culture.

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A business owner told me his sales were X dollars – put in whatever figure you want, $100,000, $1,000,000 or $10,000,000. His actual sales were: 2017 – 90% of X 2018 – 75% of X 2019 – 65% of X 2020 – on track for 50% of X . I can’t imagine there’s much marketing at all. And once on the slope it’s tough to recover.

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Martinka Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The title paraphrases a Wall Street Journal article from August 27, 2018 titled, “The Scan That Saved My Life.” I remember a client who, every time a strategy or tactic was discussed started out his reply with, “Yes, but….” You can assess the financial systems, operations, management, marketing, and other areas.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Russia Cancels Debt Auctions Second Week Yesterday, Reuters reported Russia cancels domestic bond auction citing market conditions Russia''s finance ministry cancelled its weekly domestic bond auctions for the second week in a row on Tuesday, saying in a statement the decision was "based on an analysis of current market conditions".

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A new study out by Spencer Stuart shows an insane number of chief marketing officers who’ve been fired during 2018. Product marketing: For this, the CMO pulls all of the analysis and insights from all of the customer-facing resources of the organization to support and co-design specific solutions with the product organization.

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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. In 2018, tech firms take seven of the top ten spots (Financial Times Global 500). I’ll then describe the implications this framework has for competitive strategy. (In

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

” Ask 10 marketers that question, and you might get 9 different answers. I’ll save my answer for another time, but I will share with you a cool place where you can find some fascinating domain names on the market. As of this writing in February 2018, I was shocked to find cfowiki.com available for only $2,395.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Digital business reached a tipping point in 2018 as organizations scaled their digital capabilities. On the sales and service fronts, leaders are increasingly focused on positioning employees to be more effective and productive in the new paradigms they face. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Recruiting Recruitment Transportation Advertising 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2018

During the Immelt era, the dominant mode had been of strategy by way of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (MA&D), including most recently the disastrous merger of the GE oil and gas business with Baker Hughes in 2016. In the fall of 2017 under Flannery, MA&D unsurprisingly became GE’s turnaround strategy tool.

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Company Healthcare Turnaround Strategy 34

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But on November 13, 2018, Judge Keith Phillips of the U.S. Toys “R” Us failed at the former strategy in its first incarnation. In coming out of bankruptcy, the company must pursue a time-well-spent strategy, offering places where both parents and their kids enjoy great experiences.

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Retail Enterprise Sales Strategy 28

Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Because FirstBuild is open, it must be quick to act on its ideas, lest someone else take them to market. The FirstBuild community does everything from product concept through design, engineering, manufacturing and sales on a micro scale. What GE Appliances gains is the powerful advantage of being first to market.

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Enterprise Productivity Engineering Retail 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

Advanced robotics and Autonomous Transport 9% 2018-2020 Robots more practical than humans in manufacturing and service jobs. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. But gains in financial operations?

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Industry Biotechnology Transportation Healthcare 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Wal-Mart also announced a $20 billion share buyback but the drop in its share price wiped out close to the same amount in market value, and the 10 percent drop was the worst one-day percentage performance since January 1988. billion for fiscal year 2017 and will remain flat in fiscal years 2018 and 2019.

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Engineering Retail Financial Sales 28

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 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. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. car market. billion in sales in today’s dollars). General Motors had 20%.

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Transportation Automotive Engineering 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

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Africa shows every sign of being the world’s next big growth market. It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. Strategy & Execution BOOK. lucydphoto/Getty Images. billion by 2050.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ First let''s go over Culpepper''s background.

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Financial Engineering Finance Government 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. Renegotiating NAFTA. Indeed, on May 18 the Trump administration notified the U.S.

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Intellectual Property Industry Marketing Policies 31

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Our company, Frontier Strategy Group, recently polled 20 Latin America general managers about Venezuela’s contributions to their regional revenues. Part of the decline can be explained by the sharp depreciation of the bolivar, but for the most part it reflects proactive decisions by multinationals to exit the market.

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