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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

How to survive and thrive in a down economy. How will this economic crisis play out? We just need to understand how to best deploy, grow or manage them. Companies that can understand how individual processes are adding or destroying value can turn red balance sheets back into black.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Product development' When is it possible to predict a product’s success?

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples. Economics and logistics.