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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Walmart wrings maximum efficiency from its supply chain by integrating four capabilities – aggressive vendor management, expert point-of-sale data analytics, superior logistics, and rigorous working-capital management – that together deliver ‘everyday low prices’ to consumers. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. MasterCard IPO’d in 2006, and Visa followed two years later. A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011. Now they are very focused on making money.

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