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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

The lesson we can learn from MHI is to create an environment conducive to innovative practices, which means communicating the company’s goals and strategies to pursue them. Since 2007, MHI Group has changed its management paradigm toward portfolio optimization, introducing a strategic business evaluation system and focusing on cash flow.

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation: Management.

Consultant Ninja

Uniteds fuel hedging strategy has all the marks of some smooth-talking consultants or bankers. In both 2008 and 2007, an increase in jet fuel prices was the primary reason for higher mainline and United Express fuel expense and aircraft fuel cost per gallon, as highlighted in the table below. "The I am a strategy consultant at.

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Debt Deflation in Spain: Record 4.7% Decline in Household Credit, Business Lending Down 10%

MishTalk

If we look at the evolution of the cash flow of borrowed money, the net change in assets is a decrease is 4.7%. In both cases, the amount of money borrowed is at its lowest level since 2007. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' Debt Deflation?

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Value flexibility.

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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing

MishTalk

China’s private sector debt has increased from 115% of GDP in 2007 to 193% at the end of 2013. reached in 2007. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' That 80% increase over five years compares to the U.S.’s s 26% in 2000-2005. trillion GDP.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Chaos ensued.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

Property investment has grown to account for about 13 per cent of gross domestic product, roughly double the US share at the height of the bubble in 2007. Rates of return on commercial property and infrastructure, and cash flows for developers and local government, have been deteriorating.