Posted by Challenger in The Larger Picture on 05. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Een lening krijgen is voor bedrijven nog altijd niet eenvoudig. In een enquête van de federale overheid gaf 22,5 procent van de bedrijfsleiders vorig jaar aan problemen te kennen met kredieten. Een jaar eerder was dat 12 procent. Het aantal bedrijven dat zegt geen kredietprobleem te hebben, daalde in 2009 van 60 naar 53 procent.
Dan Froomkin explores the likelihood of an anemic recovery, a double dip recession, another stock market crash, more financial-sector follies, deficit hawks stifling growth, the death of the middle class as we know it, and/or other dire possibilities reporters should be writing about furiously.
Walmart is launching a drive this year to cut billions of dollars of costs from its supply chain by combining its store purchasing across national frontiers in a new stage in the globalisation of its business.
“The future will be a total disaster, with a collapse of our capitalistic system as we know it today, wars, massive government debt defaults and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society,” Marc Faber writes in The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report.
One field of management methodology that supports command and control and is ripe for change is how we manage the future: forecasting. In order to build agile, forward looking businesses, we need to be able to anticipate and respond to reality as it emerges.
Posted by Challenger in Marketing, Strategy on 29. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
CrunchReport asked Paco Underhill: “Should mainstream retailers become more outspoken in their shopping formula for the purpose of sharpening their profile or would this be too limiting in terms of target audience and therefore risk prone?”
Posted by Challenger in The Larger Picture on 27. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
I’d like to see some metanarrative for how the crash happened in the first place. What we know now are the basic steps: the sub-prime mortgage collapse, the toxic assets, the gargantuan writedowns, the snowball effect of the Lehman bankruptcy, and so on. But there is also a lot we don’t know.
Posted by Challenger in Innovation, Marketing, Strategy on 27. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Most companies have turned from feeling paralyzed by the economic shocks of 2008 to plotting response strategies appropriate for today’s tough markets. One thing companies need to carefully consider is how to confront the new reality of increasingly value-conscious customers.
Posted by Challenger in Strategy on 27. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
While failure is, theoretically, avoidable, but since the cause always comes from an unexpected direction it wasn’t really preventable.
Posted by Challenger in Cost Management on 27. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
The skills companies value in finance leaders continue to shift with the times, with strategic acumen now edging past capital-markets experience, headhunters tell the crowd at CFO Rising.
Posted by Challenger in Strategy, The Larger Picture on 27. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
The sky isn’t falling, exactly. America isn’t on a fast track to irrelevance. Even in a state of total neglect, we could probably shamble along as a disheveled superpower for a few more decades. But all empires end, and the warning signs of American decline seem to be blinking more consistently.
Posted by Challenger in Innovation on 22. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, Mary Meeker, gave her usual quick presentation with a ton of information.
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