Inventory management is typically associated with product businesses. It can also be helpful in service businesses. Inventory management, when used as a business strategy … [Read more...]
Why Benchmarking is Risky
Because it’s not about you. Benchmarking helps companies and their leadership keep score on how they’re doing according to what they choose to benchmark against. There are … [Read more...]
A Force To Be Reckoned With
Sales. Marketing. These are two dynamic functions of business. The people working in these capacities are extremely talented and make things happen - products and services … [Read more...]
Choosing Business Growth
Business growth is a choice. The leadership of the business chooses to grow or not to grow. Choosing not to grow seems ridiculous because the subject of growth is so dominant … [Read more...]
How A Company Can Fully Harness Assets
Asset utilization is a large part of overall business strategy. It is often used to optimize productivity, cost containment, general operations, profitability and the overall … [Read more...]
Waiting For Opportunity…
… is how the competition is going to quietly eat your lunch. Competitors aren’t the ones waiting for opportunity. They’re capitalizing on the fact that you are. This … [Read more...]
When Best Practices Don’t Work
Market Strategy is an asset meant to be leveraged for a business to be more competitive. It drives the functions of the revenue side of business: Sales, Marketing, Business … [Read more...]
The Disconnect
It is understood that market strategy is important, but actually building market strategy is easier said than done. It’s hard. There is a lot of heavy lifting. You get … [Read more...]
Why Are You In This Market?
Do you have a competitive advantage that other competitors in this particular market can’t copy? Does your company have value propositions that really deliver … [Read more...]
Be Clear On Your Competitive Position
Who are you to your customers in the market? Who are you to your market partners? Who are you to your competition? Why is this your identity? 7 Up was the Uncola … [Read more...]
