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Honey Demand Up, Supply Constant. Prices? Demand for honey has increased as people perceive it as a healthy alternative to sucrose and…
More Procter & Gamble announced price increases for Pampers and Bounty in July 2018. Kimberly-Clark similarly announced price increases for Huggies and Viva in August 2018. Both cite inflationary cost pressures specifically pulp. Monitoring competitive price moves is good business intelligence. Watch out for inflation 2018
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From a business strategy standpoint, Dollar General has positioned themselves to avoid direct competition with Amazon and Walmart, having successfully demonstrated a way to deal with the duopoly’s increasing presence in the retail market.
More Sonos Inc. felt the heat of Amazon’s Alexa in the in-home wireless sound movement. What to do? If you can’t beat them, join them. Working with Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple, Sonos is planning to make smart speakers for all of them. Smart move Sonos for the increasing Smart Home.
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Notice that the solution many companies have taken results in sales and product management being unaligned. Sales focuses on their individual account needs while product managers focus on creating solutions to address challenges, which may be faced by multiple customer segments.
More GE has long been known as a process firm, but what processes do they use when it comes to pricing? What do pricing initiatives look like at GE Oil & Gas Subsea Systems? Who contributes to those pricing decisions? How does the pricing function fit within the larger organization? What pricing decisions does the pricing function directly engage? What techniques and tools have been found useful for pricing at GE Oil & Gas Subsea Systems? And are there any external resources that they have found particularly useful?
More Over the last few years, communication service providers as well as cable operators have been pioneering the concept of a “smart home” as a one-stop solution that satisfies their customers’ needs for safety, security, convenience, et cetera. Does this offering have a market?
More As health care spending consumes a greater and greater share of the nation’s economic output in the future, Americans will be faced with increasingly difficult choices between health care and other priorities. However, a number of opportunities exist to constrain health care costs without adverse health consequences.
More With the growing unemployment and the change in the employment dynamics, maybe downsized, right-sized, laid-ff and fired employees now are looking toward starting their own businesses. As one knows, some 90 percent of new venture fail primarily from lack of knowledge, start-up capital, working capital and lack of discipline. There are some other things that entrepreneurs must account for.
More Smart organizations understand how important market research is to the success of their organizations. That is evidence by the fact that $3…
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