Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

A framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. The Ansoff Matrix is particularly useful for strategic planning because it provides a framework to help executives, senior managers and marketers devise strategies for future growth. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy?

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Organizations use numerous strategies to control costs. Where can supplies be purchased and staged to avoid high transportation or storage costs? You may be able consolidate or eliminate activities, which can simultaneously reduce costs and increase productivity.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Some of these activities are planned a long time in advance, and a cascade of delays near the end of the project can throw the entire marketing strategy into disarray. Either your existing facilities must continue to shoulder the load, or you may need to scale back on your production levels to fit other product lines into the schedule.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

First, I have been talking for the last few episodes about the importance of not just identifying your ideal client but getting in their hearts and minds so you can position yourself, products/services, and copy to connect with them. Learn more about my Brand Positioning and Messaging strategy services: [link].

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

Governance is the backbone of any organization Governance shapes an organization’s strategies, policies, and decision-making processes. Blockchain-based supply chain management can track products through the supply chain from procurement and manufacturing to warehousing, transportation, and distribution.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

Strategy& (PwC). Ask any consultant about the Middle East, and Booz (now Strategy&) will be the first name on their lips! A little later, Booz was acquired by PwC and rebranded as Strategy& Now that our little history lesson is complete, let’s continue. Here we go! in revenue (wow!). Bain & Company.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products. How could they not have?

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

And you answer, “I’d like to buy some transportation.”. Well, yes, you want transportation, but the salesperson can’t actually sell you that, it’s only a concept. I know, this sounds stupid, nobody would try to buy ‘transportation.’. They are trying to sell intangible benefits such as: – Increased productivity.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

And you answer, “I’d like to buy some transportation.”. Well, yes, you want transportation, but the salesperson can’t actually sell you that, it’s only a concept. I know, this sounds stupid, nobody would try to buy ‘transportation.’. They are trying to sell intangible benefits such as: – Increased productivity.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2018

The company subsequently evolved to address a broader range of problems, including the high cost of owning a family car, by offering a cheap transportation alternative and introducing new solutions such as the meal delivery service “ UberEats ”. Ultimately, this ensures a good customer experience, repeat visits, and greater share of wallet.

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Banking Transportation Financial Data 84

Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The productivity myth We live our personal and professional lives in an increasingly efficient and productive world. Without realizing we celebrate the idea of “more” in all of its shapes and forms as we often admire: The company with most revenue The product with most features The organization with most people. …

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Martinka Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Food suppliers to schools are having a tough time getting food and other supplies, they don’t have enough workers, and transportation is an issue. They must now look at the supply chain, the suppliers, how they get the product, etc. Just like almost every other business these days. It also changes due diligence for business buyers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. Tesla’s initial strategy began like a start-up: to build a minimum viable product to test the market. Its strategy of coming into the market from the high end did not fit the typical demand-side disruption playbook.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. But that was the outcome, not the strategy. Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. This will provide real time information about driving obstacles to improve driver safety.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Over the past three decades, I have been counseling and mentoring people and conducting research on the topic of career strategy. I have been struck by how many people at all stages of life are extremely anxious about their careers but have invested little time in creating a strategy for it.

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Strategy+Business

JANUARY 18, 2015

As 3D printing becomes more common, many products, their parts, or the raw materials needed in their manufacture can be made locally--reducing or eliminating the need to ship them to market. Certain products, those that are both highly suitable for 3D printing and have a relatively high cost of shipping, are particularly vulnerable.'

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MishTalk

AUGUST 26, 2013

Transportation equipment, down following three consecutive monthly increases, led the decrease, $16.7 Computers and electronic products, also down three of the last four months, drove the decrease, $0.9 Transportation equipment, up fourteen of the last fifteen months, led the increase, $0.7 New Orders. billion or 7.3

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Transportation Sales Report Management 73

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2015

Even in the friendliest of work environments employee performance will be reviewed annually and productivity will be compared against other employees working at the same level. Any industries dealing in the real world of atoms (for example, mining, farming or transportation) are likely to see the world in a more zero sum way.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. China’s WeChat has most evidently pursued this strategy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. over the next three years.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

So even as rig counts collapsed, production is barely off the highs, at a price that isn't even profitable. They can exclude land costs, which for some companies amount to billions of dollars, and they don’t include the cost of using pipelines to transport crude, according to company financial statements and analyst reports.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2015

Phil Libin of Evernote is of the view that if you’re in a traditional industry like minerals extraction or transportation, then customers will either go for your stuff or your competitors stuff, but almost certainly not both. There is room for people to use multiple products. And so it’s more or less a zero sum game.

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Transportation Industry Productivity Resources 60

Chad Barr

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But in this day and age, creating valuable, relevant content for your target audience isn’t the only marketing strategy you need. Experiential marketing enables your customers to truly experience your brand, your product, or your service. If you offer a product, enable customers to experience how your product can create success.

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LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2020

Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said the documents detail “some of the earliest and most fundamental errors in the decisions that went into the fatally flawed aircraft.” Are your leaders promoting the behaviors that drive your strategy and your people forward in a way that makes sense?

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MishTalk

AUGUST 2, 2014

billion spent on counter-narcotics operations, opium production has increased for the past three years and is now at record levels. Mr Sopko found that 16 Italian-built C27 transport planes worth $486 million had been left to rot next to the runway at Kabul airport.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Value is in the products and services themselves.

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MishTalk

JUNE 2, 2015

Ex-transportation, orders are unchanged, well down from the 0.5 percent and reflecting strength for chemical products. Excluding Transportation: +0.0% Computers and Electrical Products -4.0% Transportation -2.4 Chemical products, down six consecutive months, drove the decrease, $0.4 Excluding Defense: +0.0%

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Chemicals Transportation Report Energy 28

MishTalk

JANUARY 22, 2016

Moreover, it is now possible to create cars, trucks, aircraft, and boats that are completely or partly autonomous, which could revolutionize transportation, if regulations allow, as early as 2020. That paragraph was under the category "Advanced Robotics and Autonomous Transport" given a disruptive weighting of 9%.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 18, 2022

As part of a consulting engagement or broader enterprise strategy alignment, you can expect to plan and run an offsite at one point of your career. So whether you are running a small executive team offsite, or one for a larger group, here are five tips I’ve used to plan a successful strategy offsite.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2015

From railroads to manufacturers to energy producers, businesses say they are facing a protracted slowdown in production, sales and employment that will spill into next year. whose products range from kitchen sponges to adhesives used in automobiles, said it would lay off 1,500 employees, or 1.7% Caterpillar Inc.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Excluding Transportation -0.8% -0.7% The last two months have been a disaster, especially the ex-transportation numbers. Orders for non-durable goods, pulled down by price weakness for petroleum and coal products, fell 1.1 And swings in aircraft are not distorting the picture as the ex-transportation reading is down 0.8

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Transportation Sales Report Energy 28

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Full of everything from market sizing questions and new product intros to M&A cases and strategy tests, it’s your one-stop-shop for case interview practice. 20+ industries that cover the gamut – from transportation, oil and gas, and energy to financial services, human capital, and IT.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Factory orders bounced sharply higher in October and, together with the bounce higher for manufacturing in the industrial production report, confirm what was a very solid month for the sector. Excluding transportation, and orders tied to the biennial Dubai airshow, new orders rose a less exciting 0.2 Factory orders rose 1.5

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. is aiming to commercialize its driverless transportation service by 2020. This technology can be fitted into regular production trucks and is a huge step towards fully autonomous transportation. Reader Alain writes. "

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2017

’ One could imagine an Apple car that is a Tesla-like product—one with comparable speed, self-driving technology, aesthetics, and features–but is so seamlessly integrated with the Apple ecosystem and requires a new sized iPhone, or some kind of blend of iPhone, iPad or MacBook.

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