The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2020

The period of analysis corresponded with a huge rise in the use of industrial robots, with the price of such machinery also falling by approximately 80%. Indeed, the data shows that a 20% increase in robot use in the sector between 2010 and 2015 corresponded with a 3.2% What impact did this have on the human workforce? “We

Analysis 85

Analysis Technology Industry Outsourcing 85

Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.  She became CEO of Avon in 1999, and in the past 9 years, she has helped to grow the company to achieve an annual revenue of $8.7

Press Release 124

Press Release CEO Discount PR 124

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Most companies, especially large ones, fail to understand the difference between a mission statement, a value statement, a vision statement, and a hot air marketing message that no one understands or believes in. When they are not on top of market changes and technology updates, they are giving their people permission to do the same.

Globalization 50

Globalization Mission Statement Human Capital Seminar 50

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

CEO 287

CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

Customer Loyalty 171

Customer Loyalty Loyalty Press Release Discount 171

Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Â She has been published in leading industry magazines and ghost authored a number of chapters for books published by Linkage, Inc and Pearson Education. Johnson & Johnson and others.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 100

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The declines followed news from the Census Bureau that median household income in 2010 fell to $49,445, the lowest in more than a decade, while the poverty rate jumped to 15.1 Stock market losses are eroding personal wealth. senior principal economist at IHS Global Insight. Take-home pay, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.3

Price 84

Price Conference Report Marketing 84

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. If your company produces safety products for food production perhaps the greater world needs you more than your current market. Where are you taking your company and why? Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. If your company produces safety products for food production perhaps the greater world needs you more than your current market. Where are you taking your company and why? Which one do you want to be world best at serving.

Executive Coaching 104

Executive Coaching Execution Strategic Planning Marketing 104

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Regulators now worry that declining seed competition may lead to price increases on foods that every American family consumes. Likely true.

Strategy 131

Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Regulators now worry that declining seed competition may lead to price increases on foods that every American family consumes. Likely true.

Strategy 97

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 97

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Regulators now worry that declining seed competition may lead to price increases on foods that every American family consumes.

Strategy 74

Strategy Company Competitive Advantage Chemicals 74

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

Globally, 56 percent of people want a job that allows them to give back to society versus 44 percent who value personal achievement more…” Two of the authors, Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer, are organization effectiveness researchers, consultants, and run an investment fund based on the principles outlined in Good Company.

Company 53

Company Parcell Books Review 53

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). Readers might think it odd for an environmentalist like me to cheer a low carbon price.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild!

Wilde 62

Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The global manufacturing sector is on the threshold of a dynamic new phase that will provide renewed opportunity for manufacturing firms — and a host of new challenges. We see two forces that will dominate global manufacturing in the coming decade. These forces will shift the dynamics of the global manufacturing sector.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

In 2000, Chrysler''s then president, James Holden, traveled to India to study the market. Holden didn''t anticipate that the Indian automobile market would grow by over 500% over the next 10 years: India''s car sales shot up from 518,000 units in 2000 to 2.8 million in 2010, making it the world''s sixth largest car market.

Marketing 8

Marketing Market Segmentation Merchandising B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

China's luxury market — and the global phenomenon of " trading up " — are well known. Yet when China's consumer markets recently experienced short terms blips, several doubters promptly questioned the pace of their long term growth. By 2010, the number had risen to 221 million. But times are changing.

Marketing 9

Marketing Apparel Short-term Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Geely launched new models at around double the price of its other cars. Access to mature global markets. Negotiations Globalization East & Southeast Asia' Technology. The acquisition was a huge success.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

In my previous post , I argued that the potential gains from globalization are larger than most people think. The global recession has recently and directly impacted the lives of many, most obviously in the form of rising unemployment — and the finger of blame is often pointed at globalization. Why is this so scary?

Company 12

Company Globalization Industry Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Some were due to layoffs caused by the global recession and slowing of manufacturing exports, which constitute around two-thirds of U.S. Thanks to the global recovery, about 900,000 have reappeared, and some more will , resulting in a recovery of probably around 25% of the recent losses. million, were the largest in U.S. labor pool.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Multinationals must use their global resources and capabilities to transform both urban and rural India and improve the lives of not just the rich but also Indians at the middle and bottom of the pyramid. Here are some considerations for businesses contemplating a Go-to-India strategy: Market Selection. trillion market.

Retail 15

Retail Supply Chain Business Model Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The paltry market for organic wine around the world belies the fact that over the past half century, countless organic winegrowers and vintners have dedicated great effort to creating a larger market for the category, without much success. Early organic wine was not well received in the marketplace, for a number of reasons.

Organization 10

Organization Chemicals Retail Reputation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. Their only purpose is to give manipulative boosts to GM’s stock price.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

Luxury goods marketers in China received some good news last month. The decisions are in line with other policies that will stimulate domestic consumption and, the government hopes, will chip away at the globally contentious trade surplus that China enjoys. The Chinese market for luxury products has been booming recently.

Deming 13

Deming McKinsey Fashion Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In 2010, data centers represented 2% of all electricity use in the United States. Globally, it equates to 2% of all annual emissions linked to climate change. If the world is to become ever more efficient and reach global climate goals, internet power will need to play its part.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Prahalad, put it there), the struggle to understand its role as a market and as a source of innovation continues. Yes, there are notable examples of BOP innovation from global corporations (such as the GE portable ECG machine ) and emerging market companies (such as the Chotukool refrigerator) that have broken through in global markets.

Prahalad 14

Prahalad Business Model Early Adopters Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Under his leadership, the company's total shareholder return outperformed its industry peers by 1,022%, corresponding to a compound annual return above the industry average of 129%, with a corresponding market capitalization increase of CNY 237 bn (USD 36.7 Our measure is objective, using stock market data as opposed to reputation.

Long-term 13

Long-term Short-term Globalization Reputation 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

This dispute is part of a long-standing belief, especially in the US, that China should allow the value of the renminbi to rise in order to rebalance the global economy. China is America's third-largest export market, behind Canada and Mexico, accounting for 7% of US exports as of August 2011.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14