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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. Snyder gives examples of such customization as everything from on-the-ground reports during election days to helping a real estate firm better manage its leases. 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. Please excuse a little cheerleading.
Fast Company - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Microsoft Set To Repair 8 Bugs, Continues Velvet Hammer For Upgrades
The downturn was not unexpected. “This In March 2009, for example, Microsoft issued three bulletins, while in March 2008, it delivered four. While there are 8 bugs in various versions of Microsoft products that will be patched on Tuesday, the Tuesday ritual leaves a few of the bugs that have been more noteworthy untouched. A story from ComputerWorld tells that no repair for the Windows 7 Server Message Block fault or the Internet Exploder F1 problem is forthcoming. Microsoft today announced it will ship two security updates on Tuesday to patch eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.
Lockergnome Blog Network - Sunday, March 7, 2010
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Why Peace and Harmony Are Bad for Innovation
Citing examples from wartime as well as from the current downturn, they say they've found that "shocks and surprises did not deter progress, but actually drove it forward." To me, one of the most disturbing images in literature isn't Big Brother's menacing stare or Anna Karenina's body under the train, but what the Parsee did with his cake crumbs. When I was reading How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin aloud the other night, I was struck by the Parsee's cruelty in sprinkling those stale, tickly crumbs inside the hide of the rhinoceros, who had taken it off to go swimming.
HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, February 26, 2010
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  • Pricing Strategies for the Downturn
    Pricing power doesn't necessarily decrease in a downturn . For example, there is often a segment of loyal customers who do not expect or need to be persuaded with a discount to purchase. If you're an apparel retailer with excess inventories, for example, you don't have much choice, as a certain high-end fashion retailer recently learned to its cost earlier this year .) I used to love the television game show " The Price is Right ." Beyond the insane level of excitement of the show was the oddly compelling quest to discover the right price of everyday items like refrigerators
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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  • 6 Lessons Learned in the Downturn
    Over some good Italian cuisine and syrah in Boston's North End , we enjoyed a stimulating evening as Eric Hellweg, Managing Editor of HarvardBusiness.org, moderated a discussion centered on the question of key lessons learned in the economic downturn. key lesson in this downturn is that during difficult times, consumers make purchasing decisions based on price. Last week we held our Annual Meeting for my firm, Cue Ball, and as part of it we gathered our investor members for a stimulating dinner discussion with HBR editors Eric Hellweg and Katherine Bell, and group publisher Josh Macht.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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  • Is Your Company Brave Enough to Survive?
    As a professor of strategy, lately I've been getting asked quite a lot, "What can our company do to survive the downturn?" And an economic downturn is like winter in Alaska; many animals can live a happy life in Alaska all through spring, summer, and fall, but when winter comes, it's not a great place to be. But I do think there are a few survival techniques from looking at firms' downturn survival strategies, although they are not for the faint-hearted. I'm sorry, but the real answer is, "Not a lot." The market is Darwinian: the strongest ones survive.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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  • Trend to Watch: Innovation Marching On
    Commercial investment in R&D and new ventures has slowed, but the downturn does not alter the "headroom" for innovation in fields such as information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science, and clean energy. Don't hesitate to improve efficiency - by consolidating research facilities, rationalizing project portfolios, reevaluating licensing agreements-but use the freed-up cash to double down on promising investments for a post-crisis world. Research shows that companies investing countercyclically in R&D during downturns tend to outpace their competitors
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, September 4, 2009
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  • Value Propositions That Work
    Jet Blue is a good example of a company that, though it may not offer the cheapest or best in comfort travel, does a good job of communicating its value relative to its price point. Dell, Chipotle, Ikea, and Toyota are other good examples of best-in-class value, and their value propositions have been sustainable through the years. While the luxury segment was hurt during the downturn, it is In my last post, I highlighted the fact that most people can't explain what their company does — its value proposition. The best way to start getting employees and management
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, September 14, 2009
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  • Use the Downturn to Your Advantage
    So when Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy's, gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal talking about how he was using the downturn to improve operations, I thought it wise to pay attention. Leaders such as Lundgren teach us how you can use the downturn to your advantage. For example, reduce the number of staff and skip-level meetings. The first time I heard department stores referred to as dinosaurs (e.g. facing extinction) was at least twenty-five years ago, and even then it was old news.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, August 14, 2009
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  • Trend to Watch: Industries Taking New Shape
    People often equate downturn with slowdown , but for many trends, a downturn can be anything but a slowdown. One only need look at that fateful week last September when the entire investment banking industry upended to see an example of just how fast an industry can shift shape. Big pharma, for example, has gone through a spate of mergers this year. Authors' note: Each week in July and August, we'll introduce a new trend you have to watch from our HBR article in the July-August special issue . We also invite you to comment on this trend and suggest what trends
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 13, 2009
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  • How Would Walt Disney Market in 2009?
    For example, Snow White was a movie, a ride, a doll, a book, a dress, a television show, a cartoon, and a set of experiences which all were touchstones to the magic of it all. For example, if your firm serves businesses but does not have a marketing message that can be consumed over a BlackBerry then you're behind; if you serve consumers and don't have applications in the Apple App Store, you're out of touch. Walt Disney, the man, was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and told them in sizzling
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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  • Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
    Google's motto, "access to all the world's information" is an example of such a goal. For example, a bank that loans money to a small business sees that business grow, perhaps borrow more money, hire employees who make deposits and take out loans, and so on. It's particularly tough to stay focused on big issues in the face of an economic downturn, because getting paid looms large. I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters . This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be.
    OReilly Radar - Sunday, January 11, 2009
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  • Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
    When I open the box of my new Macbook Air, for example. During economic downturns, when it is critical to get more done with fewer resources, getting things half right will take you half as long and give you better results. There are times in life when I expect something to be perfect. Or when I take money out of the ATM.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 2, 2009
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