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Scenario Planning: Making Better Decisions about Tomorrow, Today
- 14 May 2012 16:57
- by Jessica Jeffcoat
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The future is inherently unpredictable, forcing companies to conduct strategic planning in the face of great uncertainty. As a result, many companies struggle to develop strategies that take into account long-term threats and opportunities, while balancing short-term priorities. Scenario planning is a structured methodology you can use to test exis...
Customer-Centric Shortfall: 2012 Global Sales Leadership Priorities Survey
- 05 Apr 2012 13:20
- by Jessica Jeffcoat
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By Jessica Jeffcoat, Research Analyst, and Holly Lyke-Ho-Gland, Research Lead, Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of sales executives globally. The executives were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to a...
The Story of Effective M&A: 2012 Corporate Development Priorities
- 21 Mar 2012 08:02
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of corporate development executives. The respondents were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to address the prominent issues identified in the survey. Corporate Development in 2012—A Snapshot T...
How to revitalize your demand management process
- 19 Mar 2012 10:30
- by Austin Pullmann
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It’s the rare B2B marketer who hasn’t had to listen to sales reps complain about the quality of leads being provided. And sales forces tend to be underwhelmed by the volume of leads too. So what to do? Ramping up demand generation efforts makes little sense if the lead management process (i.e., what happens to it when it comes in the door) is funda...
The Implementation Deficit: 2012 Corporate Strategy Priorities Survey Results
- 19 Mar 2012 09:49
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Team Membership™ (GTM) recently completed its 2012 survey of corporate strategy executives. The executives were asked to identify their most pressing challenges for 2012. GTM will focus its best practices research to address the prominent issues identified in the survey. Corporate Strategy in 2012—A Snapshot The prim...
Kodak - After 130 years in development, will it go in a flash?
- 23 Jan 2012 07:48
- by Noel Anderson
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This coming summer will play witness to my 5th wedding anniversary. In that time my wife and I have honeymooned, bought a family home and filled it up with two (sometimes) lovely children. In short, in the last half decade, we’ve had more Kodak moments than there have been EU regulations defining the shape that a banana needs to be in order to be a...
Overcoming the Great Divide: Embedding Corporate Strategies Effectively
- 21 Nov 2011 13:03
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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When the Growth Team Membership (GTM) program surveyed corporate strategy executives to identify their top challenges for 2011, the primary challenge was, for the second year in a row, developing effective strategy implementation plans. When asked to identify the root cause of this challenge, respondents indicated it was a lack of common objectives...
Why Blame S&P?
- 09 Aug 2011 06:55
- by Kirti Timmanagoudar
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The president of United States, Mr. Warren Buffett and the analyst on the wall street; many are blaming S&P for downgrading the US ratings. I have the highest respect for the world's greatest investor.. Eu to Buffett? In stead of congratulating S&P for doing a good job and being honest (even at the potential of getting this wrath from various angl...
Urban Mobility: The effects of Urbanisation and Technological Improvements
- 13 Jun 2011 10:49
- by Martyn Briggs
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Technology has revolutionised transportation in recent years, particularly in the urban context, helping cities devise fully integrated multi-modal public transport systems that are reliant on far more than just a single mode of transporting passengers and goods from point to point. Technology has enabled improvements across all modes of transport...
Advanced analytics made easy with new business discovery tools
- 11 Apr 2011 13:50
- by Avinash Bhaskar
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My last entry in this space was that of text mining. Since that piece, I have now moved onto learning the market trends in the multi-billion dollar business intelligence tools and so far the study has truly been a satisfying 'business discovery'. I emphasize the term 'business discovery' mainly because this is the catch phrase that is being used by...
Time is now for a supplychain health
- 29 Mar 2011 07:01
- by Prana Tharthiharan Natarajan
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Henry Ford, the father of the automobile, once made a notorious statement "you can have any color of Model T, as long as it is black". Today, the automaker is asking its customers to order SUVs as long as it is not black. The quake in Japan has shaken the global automotive industry. Ford is just one among many affected OEMs. While it must come as...
AT&T and T-mobile USA - all About Spectrum
- 24 Mar 2011 21:21
- by James Brehm
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Earlier this week, I was asked to do CNBC's Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the bombshell announcement by AT&T that they were spending $39 Billion to acquire T-mobile USA. You can view the spot HERE. ...
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