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13 Articles match "competitive advantage","downturn"
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If the Customer Is Truly King, Then Sonoma Partners Is One Smitten Queen
The firm works exclusively with Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management software, thus they were in a prime position to goose their bottom line during a downturn. First they identified an opportunity in the soft belly of the bear--in this case, Sonoma Partners realized that companies needed a competitive advantage more than ever and a good place to start is by solidifying bonds with customers. Any time a head of a company uses the word "upswing" in detailing his business' recent success, there is a bit of a compulsion around these parts to comment on the company.
Fast Company
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Small Business Case for an Internet Sales Tax
eCommerce continued to grow, despite the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. For many people, the main advantage is convenience, variety and of course price comparisons. But there is also a huge hidden advantage in the United States: no sales tax.
For eCommerce is finally a staple of the US economy. Comscore reported a record holiday season with total spending exceeding $29 billion dollars across a two month period .
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, February 25, 2010
Welcome to Unretirement
Forward-thinking companies are still looking at incentives to keep older talent in place, even in this topsy-turvy downturn world. But much like the techno-nonapocalypse, the mass exodus of older workers appears to be just another over-hyped non-event that slammed head first into the reality of a brutal downturn.
The downturn most likely isn't going to last forever, and the demographic shift underway hasn't stopped.
Remember all those headlines from a few years back that predicted an impending talent and knowledge shortage inside companies? By now, great hordes of
Fast Company
- Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Why Ideals are the New Business Models
It's the worst downturn for the better part of a century: business model redesign - lower costs, greater efficiency, choosing the most profitable customers and revenue streams - should be every boardroom's first priority, right?
When we seek to monetize, we end up chasing the same old lame competitive advantage. Take your pick: newspapers , autos , mobile , solar - across the zombieconomy, boardrooms are sweaty-browed with the task of business model redesign. Nothing could be more wrong.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, March 13, 2009
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Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy
That gives small companies a huge advantage.
Just ask John Drummond, who started Unicycle.com after getting laid off from IBM during the last downturn. Trust is the new competitive advantage.
I just heard a story from a client that's hard to believe but true.
In the worst economy we've seen in decades, Passlogix, a privately owned 100-person software development company, just received over a million dollars in prepaid commitments for the next three to five years of service.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 23, 2009
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How Not to Compete, Post-Crash
Secrecy used to be a competitive advantage in many businesses. We just might learn this time because this downturn has hit hard, wide, and globally. That's transparency, and it's your new competitive advantage. I recently met someone who used to be a bond trader but took a few years off to raise her children. Now she wants to return to work.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, April 13, 2009
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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times
entitled The Ownership Quotient, Putting The Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage . It provides you with the "burning platform" necessary to enlist everyone in transforming your organization to win the competitive battles of the future. It's a great time to engage employee-owners in coming up with ideas to deal with the downturn. This week's question for Ask the Coach:
Keeping Keeping employees' committed and motivated during tough economic times seems like a tall task, especially after downsizing or program cutbacks.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Friday, April 17, 2009
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Take Eco-Efficiency to a Higher Level
A silver lining of the economic downturn is that efficiency has moved to the top of the business agenda. These are the breakthroughs that produce real competitive advantage. ( As I noted in a recent column, the recession may give formerly busy managers the extra time to find those higher-order efficiencies. The recently enacted U.S. stimulus package includes more than $11 billion in funding for energy efficiency funding that will hopefully achieve the trifecta of saving energy, money, and jobs.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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12 Adoption Strategies for Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 in 2010
Indeed, some efforts have knocked it out of the park, such as the Netflix Prize competition , Booz Allen with its new award-winning Hello portal , or the distributed digitization of the New York Times by reCAPTCHA . The potential for disruption and dislocation increases the longer that competencies in this area aren't developed and only a few industries have first-mover advantage remaining. The signs are pointing to next year being a banner one when it comes to mainstream adoption of the latest digital business models. With half a decade under the belt of the Web 2.0
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Get Out of the Training Business
If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, the first thing you need to do is realize that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm.
My assistants will become the director of sales readiness and the director of competitive advantage, respectively. Jay’s column on Effectiveness, CLO magazine , February 2009
The dawn of a new age
Informal Learning
- Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Open Source and Social Media: Community, Collaboration, Freedom
For the CIOs and CTOs of these companies, it's not about the price tag of each solution but rather about the total cost of ownership over time, especially in a downturn economy.
Companies that erected insurmountable barriers to protect their source code now realize that the cost of innovation and competition may be just too much compared to that of their competitors that use open-source software. To most people, the term "open source" immediately conjures an image of two geeks sitting in a dark room (probably a basement) -- curtains drawn, McDonald's remains strewn across the desk, and 42 oz sodas within arms' reach -- coding away at their computers, listening to Linkin Park or a game soundtrack.
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, July 20, 2009
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Get out of the training business
If you’re looking for a way to weather the economic downturn, be aware that it’s a permanent climate change, not a passing storm. My assistants are becoming the Director of Sales Readiness and the Director of Competitive Advantage. Most of the time, the global economy is cyclical. It has its ups and downs but the underlying pattern remains the same.
TogetherLearn
- Saturday, January 17, 2009
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The Small Business Case for an Internet Sales Tax
eCommerce continued to grow, despite the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. For many people, the main advantage is convenience, variety and of course price comparisons. But there is also a huge hidden advantage in the United States: no sales tax.
For eCommerce is finally a staple of the US economy. Comscore reported a record holiday season with total spending exceeding $29 billion dollars across a two month period .
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, February 25, 2010
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