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Why Are Some Companies More Profitable Than Others?
There are two fundamental questions that business owners and managers ask all over the world: Why are some companies and businesses more profitable than others? It’s a great starting point for the...
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Can Blockbuster Be Turned Around?
Blockbuster, the DVD rental chain went into administration in January 2013 as demand shrank under pressures from online video streaming services like NetFlix and Amazon’s LoveFilm and the increased...
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Critical Success Factors & Key Performance Indicators
Critical Success Factors (CSF) are unique to implementing your particular strategy. Key success factors will be common across many of the businesses within an industry and (hopefully) each business has...
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Key Success Factors And Their Role In Strategic Planning
A key success factor (KSF) for a trade, profession or industry is something that a business must do to be successful. It is a necessary condition for success. The Difference Between Key Success...
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Supermarket Price Promises – What Do They Really Mean?
In the last year we’ve seen various price promises from the leading supermarkets in the UK – Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys and price competition intensifies as national austerity restricts spending. The...
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Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder et al
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) is written by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith and designed by Trish...
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Strategy Dynamics Course Review
Many years ago I read the book, “The Fifth Discipline” by Peter Senge and it triggered a long interest in systems thinking and systems dynamics as a way to understand complex situations. To quickly...
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Value Above Cost by Donald E Sexton
The full title of this book is Value Above Cost: Driving Superior Financial Performance with CVA, the Most Important Metric You’ve Never Used. It is by Donald E. Sexton who is Professor of Business at...
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Naked Cleaning – An Example Of Taking Something Away
I’m always interested when a story about a product or service that’s differentiated hits the newspapers and, being a man, one of my trigger words, that is virtually guaranteed to attract my attention...
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ThirdLove – Bras That Fit In Half Sizes
The story of ThirdLove caught my attention and I thought I’d share it with you. First I’ll admit that I like looking at bras and boobs but I don’t really know much about them. I knew about cup sizes...
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