Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part III: Political Trends
In this post, the third in a five-part series, we set out to provide a comprehensive review of current political trends. We have gone to great lengths to provide a neutral commentary. We welcome comments, but hope our readers will stay on topic:How will the political...
Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part II: Social Trends
Unfortunately, the news of late has been consumed with inflammatory political rhetoric that sharply divided the nation. As a public service, this article will provide a respite from such debate and focus on less controversial social trends that will impact business in...
Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part I: The Economy
In this writing, the first of a five-part series, we will examine economic factors impacting business in 2017 and beyond. Within our strategy practice, we have a client who always says, “A growing company is a thriving company.” Yet our economy appears to be a blend...
The Benefits of Measuring True Costs
Many entrepreneurial companies face challenges in calculating their true cost of doing business. The ability to overcome these challenges can create a significant competitive advantage.We live in an age of nickels and dimes. Customers split hairs over price, and make...
The Problem with Agile
Much has been written about “Agile” and its adoption as a new management system. Like so many other trends, this method was born in Silicon Valley as “Agile development”, a method for adapting more quickly to changing conditions and making adjustments on the fly.Agile...
Sharing Economy
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What Anti-Trust?
I am somewhere between amused, disgusted and confused. Since the passing of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890, the U.S. government has been stepping in to ensure markets are fair and free of anti-competitive practices.Through the dot-com era and the wave of...
The U.S. Economy: What’s Next?
It is really hard to get excited about the current economic climate. While it is technically in a period of recovery, it is the most sluggish recovery in modern times. U.S. GNP growth sputtered along at a clip of +1.2% in the second quarter[i]. Ho hum. Our future...
The Robots Are Here
It sounds like a script from a bad Tom Cruise movie. Eventually the dangerous machines become capable of limitless artificial intelligence and take over the world, only to be outsmarted by some heroic member of the human race. At this point in their evolution, robots...
