Saving money or Making money?
As a management consultant working with top management worldwide for many years, I constantly meet management teams that are immersed with the quest of reducing cost. It is common for top management to have a yearly goal of cost reduction and for all levels of management to be investing effort in finding ways for meeting […]
Managerial Decisions making then and Today
Recently I had a discussion with a group of business leaders that were exploring ways to improve the performance of their companies. I had given a presentation and following the presentation we had a talk. The discussion took off from the content of the presentation but took a “life of its own” leading what seemed […]
Changing Value Perception
I’ve been working with a customer for a while now on an assignment designed to grow sales and profitability. It started with reorganizing the manufacturing and within a short while the company realized a meaningful jump in their performance; production lead time went down from 28 days to 10, and reliability from about 70% to […]
Делать больше меньшими ресурсами
Неделю назад мне посчастливилось побеседовать с коммерческим директором крупного производителя продуктов питания. Компания постоянно росла как органически, так и через сделки слияний и поглощений. В результате постоянно расширялся продуктовый портфель и росло количество категорий, управляемых коммерческой службой. Объем задач коммерческой функции также постоянно рос: ввод новых продуктов, проведение рекламных кампаний, оптимизация продуктового портфеля, взаимодействие с […]
Do more with less
читать по русски A week ago, I had the privilege to chat with a commercial director of a large food producer. The company experienced a continuous growth both organic and through M&A’s. As a result, there is a constant growth in their product portfolio, and categories managed by the commercial team. The complexity of the […]
The Fallacy Of Business Opportunities
Companies, and their leaders are constantly engaged with two challenging tasks – grow the top line, do it profitably. To achieve the first one companies try and have in their possession products and services that they can offer to their market that answer the market needs, or even anticipate needs to be answered, they then […]
When the efforts to increase sales lead to losing sales
I recently have had the opportunity to engage with a few customers, globally. These customers are from different industries and different countries yet all are having the same challenge – increasing sales. All of them have been experiencing for a few years now, a situation of sales stagnation and/or small fluctuations around the same revenues. […]
Shortening the Distance to Money
One 0f the more important tasks of companies is to develop and sustain a competitive advantage. It often seems to me that when coming to business people forget their lives and walk into an imaginary world they have created. A world where they collect evidence to support their vision of the imaginary world. In this […]
Saving money or Making money?
As a management consultant working with top management worldwide for many years, I constantly meet management teams that are immersed with the quest of reducing cost. It is common for top management to have a yearly goal of cost reduction and for all levels of management to be investing effort in finding ways for meeting […]
