What holds Women back in business?

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Some of the most powerful people of today’s world are women. They are leading nations and fortune 500 companies and are holding up extremely well in a male dominated world, bringing change and new perspectives to the established ways of doing politics or business and setting new standards. There are numerous examples where women did … Read more

How to improve your sales performance

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Tips for improving your sales performance: Customers are now smarter at buying than the salesmen are at selling If you are an executive, you may have read one or more of the thousands of books currently available on how to improve sales performance. With so many books advising on how to be great at sales, you … Read more

Innovation & International Growth

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Export is nowadays not anymore a “nice to have”, but a necessity for innovative SMEs. It goes through building an international export culture and contracting local executives. The Global Innovation Index 2011 indicates that countries like France and Italy are lagging behind other equivalent countries in terms of innovation. However, these countries demonstrate a capability … Read more

Good decisions are not sufficient to avoid bad situations

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Consultants with experience and hindsight can help executives make the right decisions and implement them for success “Success is 51% good decisions versus 51% bad decisions”. But actually, when making the “post mortem” analysis of a failure, few business decisions can be singled out as “bad”. Some weaknesses in the decision processes may explain how … Read more

A Borderless Marketplace for Executives

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A borderless marketplace for international top executives, interim managers and executive consultants Most of us are top executives or consultants (or both). As active executives, we are quite often looking for new people, to recruit them, or to hire them as contractors. As consultants, our daily concern is to find the next mission. As executives … Read more

22 POINT PLAN FOR SUCCESS

22 POINT PLAN FOR SUCCESS

Times are generally tough for most businesses. Also, the reasons for the demise of companies was probably weak management, lack of management accountancy information, lack of adequate response to change, over trading i.e. the BIG project and high gearing plus normal business hazards and investors pumping money in without understanding the changing market place. Industry … Read more

Automotive Industry – Enthusiasts Will Be Unleashed To Greener Pastures

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World financial crisis seems to settle down, and so does the credit-dependent automotive industry. But grizzled veterans know that today we live in very different world. Good old times of drastic growth are over, fat players got lean, and so did the cash-starved supply chain. Heavily wounded corporations plunged into massive cost-reduction and headcount cutting … Read more

How important is the retention of the customer?

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The retention of good customers is the number one priority Every business, large and small, depends on customers for its livelihood. Surprisingly, a great many businesses fail to honour this common-sense principle. Excellence in customer service is the single most important element in determining your company’s future success or failure. Regardless of the product or … Read more

Adding compelling value to business processes

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Business processes: How to reduce cost with Nano technology In times of financial prudence, credit scarcity, retrenchment, solvency risk and everyone demanding more for less, how can business organizations improve their business processes and grow their profits? How can compliancy in best business practice mean reduction in facility costs? Are there still opportunities to do … Read more

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