cost reduction
cost reduction
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-10-09
Almost all business people work hard and are dedicated to their work. Yet some achieve great benefits from their efforts while others are simply holding the line. What are the lessons of this differe...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-10-13
It's useful to want to build a major business by adding onto the base of your initial breakthrough. But what does that look like in practice? Let's examine the case history of Education Management to...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-10-19
How do you gain critical strategic advantages over competitors? It's easy: Build a better business model and then expand on your initial successes by providing more of what customers cannot get elsew...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-10-30
In its initial business model, Iron Mountain focused on providing safe, secure storage of electronic records inside a large cave. This was a requirement of many auditing firms for their accounting cl...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-10-30
Let's explore why you will benefit from focus on building on your initial business model advantages over competitors. Here are the reasons:1. Building from initial business model advantages adds to k...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-10-30
Here are a few questions that will help you ensure that you are continually improving your business model in the most profitable ways.1. Where has your current business model made you the first to of...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-11-07
". . . Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps."-- Amos Bronson Alcott"Sweet and low, sweet and low . . . ."-- Alfred, Lord TennysonIf you have previously followed new trends in mana...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-11-09
During recessions, companies focus on getting costs down and reducing debt. During boom times, hiring people, new products, and increased marketing require lots of attention. If companies could focus...
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by Donald Mitchell - 2008-11-18
Growth-oriented companies always have lots of excess capacity to supply customers. The cost of losing a customer is usually greater than the cost of having idle resources for these companies.But prof...