Business Strategy
Business Strategy
Any business will claim to have a vision for itself; it will also claim to have top talent, robust communications, and extreme customer focus. Likely though, its management gives itself higher marks in those areas than...
Innovation—pioneering new ways of thinking and developing improved processes and products—is critical to business success. What is particularly needed is “breakthrough,” or radical, innovation—that which offers wholly...
Over the last half century, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have played a defining role in shaping the corporate landscape. In Intelligent M&A, Scott Moeller and Chris Brady illustrate that by...
The “great recession” has completely changed today’s economic climate. Consumers are buying less and saving more, banks are lending very little money, and conservationist policies are emerging from developed nations,...
Mergers and acquisitions (M & A) and other corporate development deals have never been more important than they are today. But a variety of factors – including globalization, the speed with which deals are closed,...
Many companies fear that adopting environmentally sustainable policies will reduce their profits or that trumpeting their achievements will only invite criticism from environmental activists that they failed to do more...
A strong Internet presence is vital to any consumer-oriented company. In addition to an effective website, companies must make use of social networking sites as well as blogs and microblogs. Certainly, the old media of...
When it comes to efficient production and operational excellence, Toyota’s reputation is world-class. As a company, it has been the standard-bearer for innovation, continuous improvement, and lean manufacturing...
There was, perhaps, a time when people could credibly wonder whether human actions really play a role in determining the fate of the planet, but no longer. Awareness of green issues has reached a tipping point. The...
A software company that adapts the motto “No Software” is an unusual company indeed. A company that plots to do away with nearly every business convention – from sales and marketing models to the very hardware on which...
