Points out that strategic managers already face enormous pressures to get everything right in terms of cost, quality, and customer satisfaction and supply chain issues. Suggests three steps for achieving a successful e‐business design: self‐diagnosis; reversing the value chain; and choosing...

Points out that there are five main characteristics of the virtual community business model: distinctive focus; capacity to integrate content and communications; emphasis on number‐generated content; access to competing publishers and suppliers; and commercial orientation. Depicts three...

Advances that by 2010, two billion people will be online and that this many potential customers will force businesses operations to change in a big way — as customer loyalty will be paramount. Highlights six common traps to trip up even successful online businesses: misunderstanding the...

Identifies eight globalization drivers: common customer needs; global customers; global channels; global economies of scale; favourable logistics; information technology; government regulations; and transferable competitive advantage. Believes services can be divided into three categories:...

Believes ‘head to head’ combat is no longer a relevant metaphor that businesses can use in today’s competitive arena. States that applying the principle of ecology to businesses will help them to grow and thrive — thereby helping managers understand how competition in business is...

The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze scenarios of business development in the agricultural machinery market under conditions of international trade integration using the case of present-day Russia and to determine the need for state support for domestic production. As a...

Stay LWYRD -- Erfolgsbedingungen juristischer Bildung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung -- Docendo discimus -- How to become General Counsel -- Building your personal (legal) brand -- Welche Zutaten sind für ein erfolgreiches Business Development unerlässlich -- Aber bitte mit...

This book presents up-to-date descriptions of Smart Services Innovations in industry, supported by new scientific approaches. It summarizes the outcomes of the fifth Smart Services Summit, held in Zurich in October 2023, which primarily focused on the ability of Smart Service Systems to support...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual model of business development that provides operational ways to increase the competitive presence of more micro and small ventures (both actual and new) in enlarged markets, including international ones. Design/methodology/approach -...