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Business Strategy – How to Handle Confidential Information

BrainZooming

Beyond trade secrets and insider knowledge that could move markets, organizations consider a wide variety of information as confidential. ” Market-Moving and Insider Information. When the new service reached the market, the staff of another, competitive subsidiary visited my office to try to understand the market implications.

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Strategic Planning Questions – 5 Things Can Amazon Teach You about Strategy

BrainZooming

“Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured an article this week with strategic planning questions based on Amazon. Inspired by an article in The Wall Street Journal by professor Scott Galloway, they lay out five strategic imperatives Amazon uses to disrupt markets and grow.

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Innovation Tools and Techniques – Do they make an Innovation Expert?

BrainZooming

Are you prepared to take better advantage of your brand’s customer and market insights to generate innovative product ideas? The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth.

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The 10 Telltale Signs of Future Troubles for WalMart

Adam Hartung

2 – In March, 2010 AdAge ran a column about WalMart being “stuck in the middle” and effectively becoming the competitive “bulls-eye” of retailing. 3 – In October, 2010 Fortune ran an article profiling then-CEO Mike Duke. 7 – In July, 2015 Amazon’s market value exceeds WalMart’s.

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The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. One consultant predicted that firms in 2020 will seek the “same [attributes as in 2010] but with an even greater appreciation for the intangibles of leadership and [for experience] having led a business through tough times.”. Methodology.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Languages Your Company Should Speak (But Has Never Heard)

Harvard Business Review

Of nearly 2 billion internet users estimated in 2010, 82% spoke one of 10 macro-languages — English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Arabic, French, Russian, and Korean. Eric Schmidt commented that Anderson''s insights "influence Google''s strategic thinking in a profound way." And the remaining 18%?

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