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Effective Meeting Models

CO2

Our ability to predict the future is getting more and more difficult as the population grows, markets shift, competitors switch strategies, and systems interact. The financial report should be sent prior to the meeting and read by all participants. It’s even better if the staff members send out their reports prior to the meeting.

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SWOT analysis and university students

Rapid BI

SWOT Analysis – an email question. Yes another article on SWOT analysis. On this site we have several pages exploring the SWOT analysis, and from time to time we receive emails asking for help. The question was: I came across your website, and details about SWOT analysis. It was a good read altogether. Yes and no.

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Business Plan Development: Know your Finances

Strategy Driven

Your marketing plan and SWOT analysis are interesting – but they don’t mean a thing if you don’t have realistic figures on your bottom line. You will need to make projections of the figures your business will achieve, rather than report on those you have.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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How to Find New Competitive Knowledge in Social Media

Harvard Business Review

In the old days, corporate intelligence gathering meant painstakingly gleaning information from experts and competitors' reports, subscribing to expensive online data aggregators such as Factiva or Dialog, and scanning unstructured documents from the media. Intelligence reports are tricky. Micropublish.

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No One Can Think Outside the Box

Harvard Business Review

Figure 1 presents a real company as shown by its an­nual report. Did the handy financial-accounting box keep you from noticing that I’d said nothing about the company’s market position, customer preferences, cost struc­ture, and much more? Letting a box rust shut is a blunder not of intention but of inattention.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.