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An Agent-Based Knowledge Management Framework for the e-Commerce Environment
May 2006
Knowledge Management (KM) is emerging as one of the management tools to gain competitive advantage and e-businesses are beginning to invest in KM initiatives. Though several organizations have...
Provided by Thomson Gale
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Analyzing Your Business's Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Jun 2006
SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) is a method of assessing a business, its resources, and its environment. It helps you discover what you do well; how you could...
Provided by Business, The Ultimate Resource
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How To Adopt A Competitive Strategy In An Organization
Jan 2010
Creating a competitive strategy as part of a marketing and business plan can aide you in competing in the marketplace and focus your efforts. When developing a competitive strategy, it is...
Provided by eHow
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How To Compare A Business Model With A Competitive Strategy
Jan 2010
A business model is the method a business uses to generate revenue through the sale of its products or services. A competitive strategy focuses on how a business will systematically compete and...
Provided by eHow
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Brand Scandal Spillover: When Will A Brand Scandal Spill Over And How Should Competitors Respond?
Oct 2008
Brand scandal is more likely to spill over to a particular competitor is perceived to be highly similar on the attribute involved in the scandal. For example, a scandal involving hamburgers but...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Games Hospitals Play: How hospitals Cope With Competition
Jan 2008
Businesses generally find competition unwelcome. When facing the possible arrival of a new competitor in their market, many firms work to make the newcomer's entry more difficult. Cutting prices,...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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The State Of Customer Experience,2010
Feb 2010
With tighter budgets and fewer resources, companies across North America are turning to improved customer experience as a way to build business and enhance brand loyalty. The biggest obstacle to...
Provided by Adobe Systems
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Case Studies
Think Global. Serve Local: Helping A Global Bank In Its Efforts To Increase Competitive Advantage
May 2010
A global bank needed to improve the customer experience of clients in its highly profitable "Transaction services" business. As the business evolved and clients expanded their global footprint,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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The Ownership Quotient
Apr 2009
Lanham Napier is CEO of Rackspace Hosting, based in San Antonio, Texas. Napier is obsessed with the development of customer owners, even though he doesn't use the term. His organization, which...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Customer Acquisition And Retention: Using Customer Experience For Competitive Advantage In Uncertain Times
Mar 2009
Accenture High Performance Business research has shown that the ability to deliver a customer experience consistently aligned around customer needs and intentions has a significant impact on a...
Provided by Accenture
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Analyze Your Competition
Jan 2010
There are businesses out there trying to do what one does, only better. Conduct a competitive analysis in the market so one know where the business stands and can rise above the competition....
Provided by MasterCard
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Looking Back, Leaning Forward
Feb 2010
For many business owners-large or small-there may not be much interest in looking back at the year that was 2009. Sure, the personal retirement savings may have rebounded, but the stock market's...
Provided by Bank of America
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Hone Your Competitive Edge
Jan 2010
When your corporate competition discovers a hot new product or service, it has to go through proper channels-meaning that by the time the new product or service is finally given the green light,...
Provided by MasterCard
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Strategic Competition in Social Entrepreneurship
Dec 2008
This post on the challenges facing social entrepreneurship is drawn from remarks made on October. 23, 2008 at "Leadership for the 21st Century," an interactive training session held at the U.S....
Provided by Columbia University
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On Competition
Sep 2008
In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. Often, however, managers define competition too narrowly, as if it occurred only among today's direct competitors....
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Your Competitor Is Your Customer Is Your Partner
Mar 2010
Our beliefs drive our actions. Too often, our beliefs harden and persist long after they're no longer in sync with the world, driving behaviors that are no longer appropriate. An example of the...
Provided by Trusted Advisor Associates
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The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy To Operations For Competitive Advantage
Sep 2008
Managing Strategy Differs from managing operations. But both are vital, and need to be integrated. As strategy authority Michael Porter has noted, "Operational effectiveness and strategy are both...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Investing In The IT That Makes A Competitive Difference
Jun 2008
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the midl990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hyper...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Achieving High Performance: The Sustainability Imperative
May 2008
Confronting fundamental challenges such as climate change, population growth, human rights and resource constraints, businesses and public sector organizations face a daunting new imperative. They...
Provided by Accenture
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Predicting Your Competitor's Reaction
Mar 2009
Considering launching a new product? Making a price change? Implementing some other strategic move? If so, one needs to know how the toughest competitors might respond. But most competitive...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Case Studies
Improving Automobile Product Offerings And Inventory Management
May 2010
One of the leading automobile companies was looking to improve the management of its inventory of high-end, complex product offerings along with making significant cost savings. Recognizing the...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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14 Big Businesses That Started In A Recession
Jan 2010
It might seem counterintuitive to start a new business when the economy is in the dumps. But a recession can actually be the ideal time for launching a company. In fact, many well-known and...
Provided by Tippit
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Implementing Effective Organizational Strategy
Jan 2009
In previous papers in this series we've looked at why organizational strategy matters and what it actually is. The more challenging question though is how to best formulate organizational strategy...
Provided by Charlesmore Partners International
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Market Research China - Chinese Consumer Behavior
May 2010
This paper is intended at the smart investor, looking to provide useful details about Chinese marketing and other similar aspects. The Chinese economic market is defined by a number of distinct...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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Making Growth Happen - How To Manage Growth Initiatives Effectively
Mar 2008
No matter the macroeconomic context, companies pursue top-line growth to foster their competitive advantage, and many use strategic initiatives to deliver against ambitious plans. But such...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
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Why Would I Want To Distinguish My Company From The Competition..
Mar 2008
Today the competition in business is more stronger, more aggressive and less sensitive to the impact it has on local competition. We only have to look at category killer stores (BestBuy, CompUSA,...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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Holding On To your Place At The Top: Maintaining Competitive Advantage
Jan 2010
When Progressive Insurance began providing quotes for its competitors' policies to potential customers, many in the industry scoffed. The move seemed counterintuitive for a company driven to...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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A Dose Of Healthy Paranoia Brings Sound Financial Rewards
Dec 2009
"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, commenting on his company's recent better-than-expected earnings, noted that the company's eReader, Kindle, is their top-selling item by both unit sales and dollars. During...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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A Time To Harvest: This Could Be The Time To Cut R&D And Marketing
Mar 2009
"At the M Planet Conference in late January, Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, remarked that this is the time to invest in R&D. Wharton Professor of Marketing David Reibstein,...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Collaborating To Compete: The Rise Of "Coopetition" And Strategic Alliances
Mar 2008
In a world of high uncertainty and greater interdependence, companies often cooperate to compete. Rivals may go head-to-head in certain areas, and declare a truce in others. With the rising...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Four Tools For Achieving Spectacular Growth
Mar 2010
Opportunities for growth abound, and every organization wants to position itself to take advantage. But the failure rate of growth strategies is high. How can you determine which opportunities...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Case Studies
How Roles And Functions Contribute To Competitive Advantage
Jul 2008
A Nottingham County Surveyor, Edgar Purnell Hooley, discovered tarmac by accident in the early 20th century. He found a barrel of tar had spilled onto the road at a local ironworks. This had mixed...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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Beat The Clock: How Companies Can Use Time To Their Competitive Advantage
Oct 2009
When it comes to designing products and services, companies would do well to keep in mind the old saying "Time is money." History suggests that by helping consumers save time or more fully enjoy...
Provided by Dow Jones & Company
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Case Studies
A Canadian Technology Company Embarks On Expansion Strategy In China
Jan 2010
When a large and successful Canadian technology company needed to build its business in the lucrative Chinese market, it found the road to profitability was not a simple one. The company - a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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How E.U. Brands Can Stay Competitive
Jan 2010
A lot has changed in Europe since the first trademarks were registered in France in 1856. Trademark registration grew significantly throughout the 20th century, with 1.1 million new brands...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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To Avoid Being Blindsided, Develop Your Peripheral Vision
May 2010
Your competitor launches a product that knocks yours off the shelf - and you didn't see it coming. Another slashes prices, and yet another expands into another industry and achieves outstanding...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Does Competition Lead To Efficiency? The Case of EU Commercial Banks
Jan 2009
Using bank level balance sheet data for commercial banks in the major EU banking markets, this paper aims to shed some light on the recent developments in competition, concentration and bank...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Innovative Conduct In Computing And Internet Markets
Oct 2009
How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and internet markets evolved over the past half century? This paper discusses these questions in light of six topics: the limited role for...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Moral Hazard, Firms' Internal Governance And Management Earnings Forecasts
Sep 2009
This paper investigates the role of management earnings forecasts in mitigating information asymmetry between investors and managers relating to moral hazard, and explains how earnings guidance...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Staffing And Control Of Many-Server Service Systems
Apr 2008
This paper considers large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and agent types. Customers are classified according to their processing requirements, service-level guarantees, or...
Provided by Columbia University
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Toward An Integrative Framework Of Strategies That Work
Dec 2007
Competitive strategy is at the heart of the field of strategic management. But despite years of academic research, there is a lot of debate about what constitutes competitive strategy and how...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Learning To Grow: A Comparative Analysis Of The Wind Energy Sector In Denmark And India
Oct 2007
This paper uses sectoral systems of innovation framework to examine the relationship between technology policy and industrial development by comparing the emergence of the wind energy sector in...
Provided by Aalborg University
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Competitive Strategies
May 2010
The ultimate purpose of competitive strategy is to anticipate competitor moves and countermoves, and take the initiative to thwart the effectiveness of their plans. There are several steps to...
Provided by Acclaro Growth Partners
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Competitive Strategy: Now We Tackle The Question Of How To Compete
Jul 2008
Competitive strategy provides a company with the actions to create offensive or defensive positions in an industry and thereby yield a superior return on investment. According to Porter a business...
Provided by Unique Business Strategies
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The Strategist's Choice: Competitor Analysis
Apr 2008
In highly concentrated industries, the key characteristics of a company's external environment are determined by the behavior of a few competitors. In household detergents, Unilever's industry...
Provided by Unique Business Strategies
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Diving Deep To Identify Core Competences
Apr 2008
Having or creating a basic competitive advantage in a market is likely to be the basis of superior performance. Competitive advantage is dependent on an organization having distinctive or unique...
Provided by Strategy Explorers
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New Approaches To Competition Policy
Nov 2009
Competition policy is an important part of economic policy in each country. Due to the influence of the development of globalization processes in the world, the competition policy has gradually...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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The Process Of The Strategic Management Model Formation And Application In The Lithuanian Health Care System
Nov 2009
Today the ability to adapt to the constant and rapidly changing environment conditions is becoming the main factor of the success of the health care system Integration into the international area,...
Provided by Vilnius University
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Competitive Equilibrium In Markets For Votes
Aug 2010
The authors develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy and sell their votes with each other. They define the concept of Ex...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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An Analysis Of Slovakia Using Competitive Advantage, Core Competence Concepts: Implications For Lithuanian Business
Mar 2009
This paper analyses Slovak business environment and opportunities using the concepts of National Competitive Advantage and Core Competence. These are two fundamental concepts in the literature on...
Provided by Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
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Competitiveness And Innovation Synthesis In The Integrated Global Economy
Jun 2010
The paper aims to show that the main and most important prerequisite for successful business development in the integrated global market becomes improvement of the competitiveness of countries and...
Provided by Vilnius University
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Linking Sales Performance & Technology To Create Competitive Advantage
Dec 2009
Most corporations are experiencing intense pressure for financial performance and growth in the face of worldwide competition. Even companies which currently enjoy a major share of market,...
Provided by GSP & Associates
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For CEO-s Only Creating A New Company For A New Economy
Jan 2011
This is a challenging time for executives. Companies are now finding that they need to reinvent themselves to keep up with the demands of global expansion, changing technologies, and attracting...
Provided by Business Forum Institute
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Competition And Resource Sensitivity In Marriage And Roommate Markets
Dec 2008
The authors consider one-to-one matching markets in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. In these so-called roommate markets agents are consumers and resources at the same...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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Strategic Planning Related To Business Management And Competitive Collegiate Chess: A Comparative Analysis
Feb 2009
This study provides a comparative analysis relating to various strategies utilized within both the field of business management and within the field of collegiate level competitive chess. Related...
Provided by University of Texas
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Ubiquitous Collaboration: An IT Research Paradigm
Jan 2008
Global competition is stimulating an evolutionary merger of collaborative environments and ubiquitous computing making anywhere, anytime collaboration possible. Ubiquitous collaboration, a...
Provided by National University
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Reducing IT Operational Costs With IBM Power Systems Cloud Solutions
Oct 2010
This paper describes an approach to help answer this question. This paper first examined the challenge of IT labor costs. The authors then introduced the key components of the Power Systems cloud...
Provided by IBM
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Renewable Energy And Competition
Mar 2008
In this webcast the panel describes about renewable energy and competition. 'The panelists are Rob Gramlich, Policy Director of the American Wind Energy Association; Barry Rabe, Professor of...
Provided by Regents of the University of Michigan
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Revisiting Economizing As A Fundamental Strategy
Oct 2010
The current competitive landscape calls for firms to consider rivals in current markets and invisible competitors across the far reaches of the globe. The playing field is increasingly more uneven...
Provided by University of Northern Colorado
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MicroHoo: Lessons From A Takeover Attempt
Jul 2010
On February 1, 2008, Microsoft offered $43.7 billion for Yahoo. This was a milestone in the Microsoft versus Google battle to control the internet search industry and the related online...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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China's Progress: Can It Breach The Great Wall?
Dec 2010
With China's ascent as the world's second-largest economy, it may just be a matter of time before it eclipses the United States in productivity. But will it evolve to become a high-income,...
Provided by INSEAD
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Three Truths to Guide SMBs Toward Capitalizing on the Economic Turnaround
Dec 2010
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world are facing a competitive environment more intense than ever. Changes in the economic environment that began in 2008 (and earlier in some...
Provided by SAP
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Competitive Business Models For DTV Operators
Mar 2010
TV viewing is evolving from a lean-back to a lean-forward activity. The new TV services offer a higher degree of user participation than traditional TV viewing which is expected to influence users...
Provided by BizOpt Research
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Fast Fashion: The Faster, The Better - Interview With Prof. Martínez de Albéniz
Dec 2009
Ordering two clothing collections a year is so last season. The latest trend in the sector is the "Fast fashion" model, used by companies such as Zara or H&M. IESE Professor Víctor Martínez de...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Japan's Manufacturing Competitiveness Strategy : Challenges For Japan, Opportunities For The United States
Apr 2009
After a 10-year period of economic stagnation, Japan is pursuing various tracks to promote the expansion of its economy and its manufacturing sector in particular. Japan is engaged in a cohesive...
Provided by International Trade Administration
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Management, Strategic Management Theories And The Linkage With Organizational Competitive Advantage
Sep 2010
The main objective of this paper is to review the evolution of management theory, overview of strategic management theory and its linkage with the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm's...
Provided by Universiti Putra Malaysia
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Rethinking Manufacturing Strategy
Jan 2010
Tweaking competitors and bucking trends, B. Braun Medical CEO Caroll Neubauer has been busy expanding U.S. production over the last few years, raising the domestic manufacturing payroll to about...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
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What's Next For Innovation?
Jan 2010
Unfortunately, the "New normal" of constant change means there are no safe havens. Companies that turn inwards are sowing the seeds of their own destruction by creating opportunities for attackers...
Provided by Chief Executive Group
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Using Proactive Law For Competitive Advantage
Aug 2010
This paper explores the distinctive characteristics of hybrid organizations; a new organizational form that expands the existing categories of organizations by bridging for the profit and...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Buying Companies For New Competencies: Is It Worth It?
Jan 2010
In fast-moving industries, large companies are increasingly using acquisitions as a strategy to obtain new competencies from smaller firms. The key aspect of the acquisition is to gain access to...
Provided by INSEAD
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CEO View: Josep Oliu, Banco Sabadell
Aug 2010
From 1976 to 1982 there was a long deep crisis with a lot of consequences to the financial system, Oliu remembers. "This was mixed with the transition to the democratic regime in Spain and the...
Provided by INSEAD
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Copy Exactly: Establishing Competitive Manufacturing Capabilities
Oct 2009
Intel was a marvel at technology and invention from its 1980's-era inception, recalls former Chairman of the Board and veteran company insider Craig Barrett. But the company's strong suit was not...
Provided by Stanford University
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Cannibalize Yourself Before Someone Else Does
Nov 2010
When someone proposes a new product that is similar to an older one ("Old reliable"), the question is always asked: "How much will this cannibalize 'Old reliable'?" Someone makes an estimate, and...
Provided by American Express
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Variabilization
Mar 2009
Fixed costs have merit. They turn growth into scale effects and cost advantage - and ultimately into profit. The 19705 was the golden age of fixed costs, as companies rode the experience curve to...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Gaining An Advantage by Collecting Information About Your Competitors
Jan 2010
As sales people, one love to complain about the competition. Unfortunately, complaining doesn't do any good. A better approach is to create a system to learn about the competition. Knowledge of...
Provided by SalesVantage.com
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The 2009 BCG 100 New Global Challengers
Jan 2009
The new global challengers are formidable competitors. In many industries, they have already reached global leadership positions: several on the list rank among the top five in their industries in...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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Ten Tips To Building Competitive Advantage
Jan 2010
Long-term business success involves creating, managing and exploiting assets and skills that competitors find difficult to match or counter. Developing this advantage is a continuing process, not...
Provided by Stengel Solutions
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Do You Know If You're Charging The Right Price?
Jan 2010
Competitive pricing is always a hot button issue with business owners. They know competitive prices will attract customers and that price is often the first piece of information buyers collect. So...
Provided by Curators of the University of Missouri
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Bandwidth Bandits
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss how the Internet bandwidth is a finite and expensive resource that needs protection from spammers, criminals, hackers, time-wasters and employee misuse. Not only is it...
Provided by Symantec
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Mobility, Employees, Policies
Nov 2010
According to a 2009 survey by New York-based research firm Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are becoming increasingly mobile organizations. This...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Investing In The IT That Makes A Competitive Difference
Jun 2008
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the midl990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hyper...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Achieving High Performance: The Sustainability Imperative
May 2008
Confronting fundamental challenges such as climate change, population growth, human rights and resource constraints, businesses and public sector organizations face a daunting new imperative. They...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Predicting Your Competitor's Reaction
Mar 2009
Considering launching a new product? Making a price change? Implementing some other strategic move? If so, one needs to know how the toughest competitors might respond. But most competitive...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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Case Studies
Improving Automobile Product Offerings And Inventory Management
May 2010
One of the leading automobile companies was looking to improve the management of its inventory of high-end, complex product offerings along with making significant cost savings. Recognizing the...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
14 Big Businesses That Started In A Recession
Jan 2010
It might seem counterintuitive to start a new business when the economy is in the dumps. But a recession can actually be the ideal time for launching a company. In fact, many well-known and...
Provided by Tippit
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White Papers
Implementing Effective Organizational Strategy
Jan 2009
In previous papers in this series we've looked at why organizational strategy matters and what it actually is. The more challenging question though is how to best formulate organizational strategy...
Provided by Charlesmore Partners International
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White Papers
Market Research China - Chinese Consumer Behavior
May 2010
This paper is intended at the smart investor, looking to provide useful details about Chinese marketing and other similar aspects. The Chinese economic market is defined by a number of distinct...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
Making Growth Happen - How To Manage Growth Initiatives Effectively
Mar 2008
No matter the macroeconomic context, companies pursue top-line growth to foster their competitive advantage, and many use strategic initiatives to deliver against ambitious plans. But such...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
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White Papers
Why Would I Want To Distinguish My Company From The Competition..
Mar 2008
Today the competition in business is more stronger, more aggressive and less sensitive to the impact it has on local competition. We only have to look at category killer stores (BestBuy, CompUSA,...
Provided by Planned Growth Business Development Solutions
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White Papers
Holding On To your Place At The Top: Maintaining Competitive Advantage
Jan 2010
When Progressive Insurance began providing quotes for its competitors' policies to potential customers, many in the industry scoffed. The move seemed counterintuitive for a company driven to...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
A Dose Of Healthy Paranoia Brings Sound Financial Rewards
Dec 2009
"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, commenting on his company's recent better-than-expected earnings, noted that the company's eReader, Kindle, is their top-selling item by both unit sales and dollars. During...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
A Time To Harvest: This Could Be The Time To Cut R&D And Marketing
Mar 2009
"At the M Planet Conference in late January, Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, remarked that this is the time to invest in R&D. Wharton Professor of Marketing David Reibstein,...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Collaborating To Compete: The Rise Of "Coopetition" And Strategic Alliances
Mar 2008
In a world of high uncertainty and greater interdependence, companies often cooperate to compete. Rivals may go head-to-head in certain areas, and declare a truce in others. With the rising...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Four Tools For Achieving Spectacular Growth
Mar 2010
Opportunities for growth abound, and every organization wants to position itself to take advantage. But the failure rate of growth strategies is high. How can you determine which opportunities...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Case Studies
How Roles And Functions Contribute To Competitive Advantage
Jul 2008
A Nottingham County Surveyor, Edgar Purnell Hooley, discovered tarmac by accident in the early 20th century. He found a barrel of tar had spilled onto the road at a local ironworks. This had mixed...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
Beat The Clock: How Companies Can Use Time To Their Competitive Advantage
Oct 2009
When it comes to designing products and services, companies would do well to keep in mind the old saying "Time is money." History suggests that by helping consumers save time or more fully enjoy...
Provided by Dow Jones & Company
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Case Studies
A Canadian Technology Company Embarks On Expansion Strategy In China
Jan 2010
When a large and successful Canadian technology company needed to build its business in the lucrative Chinese market, it found the road to profitability was not a simple one. The company - a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
How E.U. Brands Can Stay Competitive
Jan 2010
A lot has changed in Europe since the first trademarks were registered in France in 1856. Trademark registration grew significantly throughout the 20th century, with 1.1 million new brands...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
To Avoid Being Blindsided, Develop Your Peripheral Vision
May 2010
Your competitor launches a product that knocks yours off the shelf - and you didn't see it coming. Another slashes prices, and yet another expands into another industry and achieves outstanding...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Does Competition Lead To Efficiency? The Case of EU Commercial Banks
Jan 2009
Using bank level balance sheet data for commercial banks in the major EU banking markets, this paper aims to shed some light on the recent developments in competition, concentration and bank...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Innovative Conduct In Computing And Internet Markets
Oct 2009
How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and internet markets evolved over the past half century? This paper discusses these questions in light of six topics: the limited role for...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Moral Hazard, Firms' Internal Governance And Management Earnings Forecasts
Sep 2009
This paper investigates the role of management earnings forecasts in mitigating information asymmetry between investors and managers relating to moral hazard, and explains how earnings guidance...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Staffing And Control Of Many-Server Service Systems
Apr 2008
This paper considers large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and agent types. Customers are classified according to their processing requirements, service-level guarantees, or...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Improving Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement
May 2010
The challenges facing the major agencies in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that regulate conditions in the workplace are daunting. Public policies on health and safety, discrimination, and...
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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Delegation Vs. Control Of Component Procurement Under Asymmetric Cost Information & Price-Only Contracts
Apr 2009
A manufacturer must choose to delegate component procurement to her tier-1 supplier, or to control component procurement by contracting with both the tier-1 supplier and the tier-2 component...
Provided by Stanford University
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Benchmarking The Single Family Office: Identifying The Performance Drivers
Nov 2009
A Single Family Office (SFO) is a professional organization, owned and controlled by a single wealthy family, dedicated to managing the personal and financial affairs of family members. In...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Better Management Through Better HR
Jun 2009
As the economic downturn rides roughshod over the nation's workforce, human resources professionals face a wide range of new challenges. Whether protecting a collective culture or protecting one's...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Supply Chain Strategies For Sustainable Companies
Apr 2008
Companies can make money while operating in socially responsible and environmentally friendly ways. It just takes what supply chain expert Hau Lee calls the Triple-A approach - having agility,...
Provided by Stanford University
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Whitepapers
Battle Of The Brands: Brand Manager Mistakes Boosting Store Brand Market Share
Apr 2010
Consumers opting for less expensive store brand products over their name brand competition may seem like a given in a recession. But new research has found that even when the economy is flush,...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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Can´t Compete With Costs? Use Culture Instead
Jan 2008
Competing in quality and innovation is the strategy of the future for industries affected by outsourcing and growing competition from surrounding countries, says IESE Prof. Xavier Vives in his...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Competitor-Oriented Objectives: The Myth Of Market Share
Dec 2007
Competitor-oriented objectives, such as market-share targets, are promoted by academics and are commonly used by firms. A 1996 review of the evidence, summarized in this paper, found that...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
An Economic Analysis Of Tradesecret Protection In Buyer-Seller Relationships
Jun 2008
The economic analysis of trade-secret protection has traditionally focused on the interests of companies to conceal information from competitors in order to gain a competitive advantage through...
Provided by Kellogg / WHU-Otto Beisheim School
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Nonprofits Are Seen As Warm And For-Profits As Competent: Firm Stereotypes Matter
May 2010
Consumers use warmth and competence, two fundamental dimensions that govern social judgments of people, to form perceptions of firms. Three experiments showed that consumers perceive nonprofits as...
Provided by Stanford University
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Power Trip: CEOs And Firm Performance
Mar 2009
Despite the public outcry over CEO pay and abuses of authority, powerful chief executives can be good for the bottom line. E. Han Kim, professor of finance at U-M's Ross School of Business, says...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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2008 Supply Chain Monitor "How Mature Is the Green Supply Chain?"
Feb 2008
Limiting damage to the environment is the major challenge society faces over the coming years. Now that companies are beginning to step up their environmental programs, their objective is to...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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Firms Survive By Recognizing Fundamental Industry Changes
Sep 2008
Enduring companies survive because employees throughout the firm, not just those in the executive suite, learn to keep an eye on how related industries are evolving. Longevity comes not just from...
Provided by Stanford University
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Japan And Her Dealings With Offshoring: An Empirical Analysis With Aggregate Data
Jul 2009
First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject....
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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Moving Beyond The Moving Anecdote
May 2009
For years, groups working on poverty-fighting ventures have used stories, anecdotes, and milestone markers to highlight their work and secure funding. Unfortunately, these things don't actually...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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Businesses Can Win The Competition With Open-Source Technology
Sep 2008
How can a business compete with a free product? It's not easy, and it's more than just a theoretical question. U.S. newspapers are finding it difficult to compete with free news and the commentary...
Provided by Stanford University
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The Slippery Slope Of A Damaged Reputation
Jan 2010
If you want to sell a laptop or get rid of a coin collection, chances are you'll find a buyer on eBay. But if you are a regular eBay seller with an impeccable reputation, beware of your first...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
