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How To Offset Cost Increases Without Driving Customers Away

Strategy Driven

It’s mainly due to the pandemic , stretching supply chains and bringing manufacturing and sourcing closer to home. The green agenda that governments are touting is going to impact the cost of making products and that in turn will affect your price. Making your software remote-work-friendly is, therefore, a must.

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Some Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses. Opportunities and Threats.

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The Future Is Where Brands Must Focus

Great Leadership By Dan

And the actions that these brands take to demonstrate their credibility must clearly illustrate a blend of corporate ethics and brand authenticity. Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’.

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Ideas To Help Accelerate Your SWOT Analysis

Six Disciplines

Products and Services (price, quality, Finances (stability, profitability, debt to equity ratio). Operations (facilities, capacity, distribution channels, supply chain, costs, use of technology). Cultural (values, ethics). Consider exploring these key categories: Strengths and Weaknesses. Opportunities and Threats.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Their goal was to hit the lowest possible price point, and to appeal to “digital native” customers. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Challenges of this frame: Be wary of pricing everything that moves in the environment and focusing too much on costs.

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S.