Worldwide PC Shipments to Reach 176.5 Million Units in 2004
Private Equity’s New Challenge
A changed competitive landscape calls for a different business model.
Content: Article | Authors: Andreas Beroutsos, Neil Harper, Richard N. Foster | Sources: CFO Publishing, McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Finance / Banking
Online Music Sales to Crescendo
Market Forecast for Video Games
Voice services from cable TV providers challenge telephone companies’ dominance
IT Services Market Nears $570B
Banks Shift Gears in Drive for Top-Line Growth: Focus Turns to Customers in the Financial Services Industry
The battle of the banks is taking on new urgency. After spending the past few years fiddling with their cost structures, leading banking organizations around the world are shifting their efforts toward growth-with an eye toward creating value.
Yet while their growth expectations are high, the markets are not cooperating. Low GDP (gross domestic product) and inflation rates in almost every market mean tepid-to-moderate growth … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Kearney | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Finance / Banking
The New Architecture of Biomedical Research
As the economics of R&D evolve, the Salk and other private research institutes become increasingly crucial to health care’s changing value chain.
Content: Case Study | Author: Lawrence M. Fisher | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Biotechnology
Broadband Use Growing in Latin America
Encountering Turbulence
As major airlines in the US and Europe restructure or seek bankruptcy protection from their creditors, they have no shortage of culprits-from the September 2001 terrorist attacks to the war in Iraq and surging oil prices-to blame for the problems that have plagued them in recent years. The biggest threats, however, may be more structural. Low-cost carriers have drawn travelers away from the major hub-and-spoke … [ Read more ]
Content: Case Study | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Airlines
VoIP Goes Big Business
Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients
Jay Conrad Levinson’s Guerrilla Marketing revolutionized the way marketers do business by defying the conventional wisdom that effective marketing means spending big bucks. He devised highly successful marketing strategies that rely on creativity, imagination, and energy-instead of money-to get the job done. Now, Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants applies the power of guerrilla marketing to the hypercompetitive business of consulting.
Editor’s Note: take a look at … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael W. McLaughlin | Subjects: Industry Specific, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Consulting