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Free Yourself and Business from Market Myopia

Organizational Talent Consulting

Market myopia is the lack of ability to see the bigger picture. Here are three leadership practices to free yourself and your organization from market myopia. link] Escaping market myopia involves the leadership practices of strategic thinking, acting, and influencing. Then you might be suffering from market myopia.

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

Economist Andy Xie has an interesting article in CaixinOnline that contains his views on 2014. The global economy is unlikely to accelerate in 2014. Abenomics is likely to fizzle out in 2014. Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere.

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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds. Catalyst for Change.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The Advisory Board Company also hires Marketing Associates, Account Management Associates, Business Analysts, Coordinators, and more at the undergraduate level. Marketing) into the consulting division. Healthcare Informatics , HCI 100 (largest health care information technology firms)—2013, 2012, 2011. Internships.

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Why So Many High-Profile Digital Transformations Fail

Harvard Business

Nike halved the size of its digital unit in 2014 by discontinuing its Nike+ Fuelband activity tracker and some other investments. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. The Silicon Valley Model. The Hard Road of Hard Tech. ” An Alternative Path. .”

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Why Winner-Takes-All Thinking Doesn’t Apply to Silicon Valley

Harvard Business

Twitter’s market cap just plummeted after a bad earnings report. Given that news, it seems that businesses that have dominated their markets are learning that the magic elixir of network effects and winner-takes-all advantages are about as reliable as cures for baldness. What markets have these companies actually won?