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The Perils of Internal Disruption (Part 2)

Markovitz Consulting

This week I’d like to address sales incentives and volume discounts. Incentives and discounts create tremendous disruption in a company’s business by distorting both incoming market signals and outgoing orders to suppliers. It read the increased sales as a sign that consumers had started to like green cars, and ramped up production.

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Leader’s Performance

Prudent Pedal

If you’re a managing partner, practice leader, sales leader, or chief administrative officer in a professional services firm, you probably have responsibility for “managing” marketing. Prerequisite Reading: We will be evaluating your Marketing leader’s performance based on your firm’s School of Marketing Thought.

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Saving RadioShack

Tom Spencer

When the business landscape changes, how can you turnaround a failing company? Assuming this leads to successful refinancing, what should the strategy be to turnaround and save this iconic company? When faced with a broad turnaround question, it is important to ask a variety of questions to determine the source of the problem.

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Consultant Ninja: Finally, two counter-cyclical markets: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Finally, two counter-cyclical markets. After seeing so many markets down, my cousin in the hunting business informed me that gun sales have been surging, due to Obama winning the presidency. The other sector Im long on is turnaround consulting: 10-13-08. Productivity. (6). Tuesday, November 11, 2008. Consulting. (88).

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The Key to Campbell Soup’s Turnaround? Civility.

Harvard Business

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. Set Expectations. At Campbell, Doug began calling the daily interactions he had with employees, “touchpoints.”

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In the Best Sales Teams, About Half of the People Are in Support Roles

Harvard Business

Sales reps are most effective when they have the right amount of support staff, but exactly how much support staff does a company need, and how should it be structured? Call it a Goldilocks quandary: Too little support, and your sales people can’t do their jobs well; too much, and you’re wasting money.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Market trends? How often do you release new products/services? directly integrated with core financials?

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