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Scenario Planning – the U.s. Dollar Implications

People in foreign countries have a direct impact on the lives of Americans every day. And they watch the value of the dollar constantly.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Scenario Planning at Apple

Apple is highly dependent upon computer chips for all its devices, from the Mac to the iPhone. Originally the company was built on microprocessors from Motorola.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Scenario Planning Post Pandemic – What About the Dollar?

Since WWII, a lot has happened. Economies in Europe grouped into the Economic Union (EU) making the Euro more powerful.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Scenario Planning

Scenario planning is really important to developing competitive strategy. Most people spend a lot of energy to achieve high precision understanding their historical sales, customers, technology comparisons, price comparisons and share

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Scaling New Heights – Building Resilience

Teresa Spangler · 29 April 2025

Sayonara Sony – How Industrial, Mba Management Killed a Great Company

By the middle 1980s, America was panicked over the absolute domination of companies like Sony in product manufacturing.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Save Your Way to Prosperity?

GM is hopelessly mired in the Swamp.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Save Your Way to Prosperity?

The key player is Chief Executive Charles Prince. Mr. Prince is a a lawyer, and when he was appointed many people thought his background appropriate for dealing with compliance issues that became very important after 9/11/01 and passage of both the Patriot Act and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Sapient Nitro seminar at Cannes Lions 2012

Omar Epps, who plays Dr Eric Foreman on the global TV hit House, joins Sapient Nitro to explore the way celebrities are leveraging cutting-edge marketing techniques and leading in adoption of new digital platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, or Beeyoo.

Rob Gonda · 29 April 2025

Santa, All I Want for Christmas is a New Ceo (and Better Compensation Plan)

CEO compensation is interesting because it is all relative.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Saluting my Alma Maters

“INSEAD joins an elite club of schools that have reached the number one spot, including Harvard Business School, London Business School, the Wharton School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business”.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Salesforce to acquire Buddy Media for $800 Million

Salesforce has had a strong offering, and are getting all the right components to become the one-stop-shop for all [social] CRM needs.

Rob Gonda · 29 April 2025

Sacred Cows – Google and Nexus One

Google has excelled, grown and made more money, because it has been willing to Disrupt its Success Formula and use White Space to test new things.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Sacred Cows

business leaders look for ways around the Challenges as they focus on the immediate problem.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

SXSW: Simplifying Innovation

Rob Gonda · 29 April 2025

SEARS ignored trends and failed at innovation, growth, value creation

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Run, Don’t Walk

The Tribune’s newspaper business is in decline as readers abandon traditional print news for the web, and advertisers are following the subscribers.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Run Small, Fast, Cheap Experiments

The majority of people never share the best idea they ever had. Why? The personal stakes usually feel too high to share genuinely original ideas.

Elvin Turner · 29 April 2025

Rob Bell joins Oprah on ‘The Life You Want’ tour

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025

Risk Aversion: The Biggest Innovation Obstacle Fear of risk is the biggest factor holding financial services organizations back from innovating.

The organizational structure of a company also influences its ability to assume risk. The more hierarchical and formal the organizational structure is, the more likely it is to reduce risk at each level of the hierarchy.

Mick Simonelli · 29 April 2025

Rise of the Evangelist

Braden Kelley · 29 April 2025

Ripe and Rotting

D&E management is a way of responding to marketplace challenges that enables companies to keep doing what they’ve always done

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Richard Branson’s 4 Secrets to Business Success Vs Top 10 Management Myths – Virgin

Business if full of myth. And we now know that many gurus have been recommending actions for years that simply haven’t produce long-term positive results.

Adam Hartung · 29 April 2025

Revolutionizing your pricing model to unleash infatuation

Bobby Fry, owner of Bar Marco, decided to do away with tipping in his restaurant earlier this year.

Gabor George Burt · 29 April 2025