Archives tagged: culture
What factor drives innovation into large companies versus entrepreneurial firms? Should firms fund deep innovation within or should innovation be driven through…
More In December of 2003, Harry Debes, CEO of SPL, announced his intent to execute an acquisition strategy. A few months later, on…
More While getting a team of sales people to perform at their highest potential challenges every sales manager, some come closer to reaching…
More Everyone in business loves customer meetings. Run a customer meeting well, and the sales process is driven closer to closure. But, run…
More Challenging conflicts exist between the desire to institutionalize past accomplishments and the need to create of new ones. While it remains appealing…
More With so many high-quality executives out of work, one can wonder what circumstances, if any, call for a company to partner with…
More In the last article, we described how outsourcing has spawned an industry aimed at making it more complicated, time/resource intensive, and disposed…
More Even given today’s disastrous mergers and acquisitions environment, Quaker’s handling of its 1993 acquisition of Snapple remains the quintessence of what not…
More Getting a handle on the customer moves to a new corporate hierarchy: The Chief Customer Officer, the outgrowth of “customer centric” initiatives.…
More Websites are an evolving creature. Initially, they were simple informational sites. They contained gobs of content describing the corporate venture, the principals,…
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