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It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” Done and dusted, they all head home. But have they produced a plan with a strategy? At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask...
What if there was a way you could take your business outside the confines of competition and create your own market space? What if you were able to set the pace and create unique products, while also profiting from lucrative new markets? The blue ocean strategy...
By Randy Bean Are companies seeing any value to their investments in “big data”? I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are...
The lesson here is that people trying to raise venture capital shouldn’t be worried about what Uber, specifically, might do to the economy if the company fails. The thing about a market bubble is that you don’t really know how big it is until it pops. So it...
By Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis and Ron Ashkenas For individual managers and employees, a merger or acquisition (M&A) is not just a corporate strategy; it’s a personally disruptive—often traumatic—event. What C-suite executives and consultants...
While the inauguration of Donald Trump will take place a little more than a month from now, French business owners will, at the same time, need a strong and fiscally unified eurozone and will need to work on their development strategy and their business models so that...
