Category: Finance
The web lit up recently when people started sharing a Fortune quote from Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, “We are literally moving the company from BlackBerrys to smartphones.” Why was this a big deal? Continue reading
For those who are looking for a sustainable competitive advantage, doesn’t it occur to you that, compared to technology, it is more difficult to do and therefore copy, an innovation in management? Continue reading
Many people equate spending on R&D with investing in innovation. The logic goes that R&D spending is lab spending, and out of labs come innovations. Hence, those that spend a lot on R&D are innovative. That is faulty logic. Continue reading
While laws striving to protect college students from credit card companies have been effectively thwarted by the current social media environment, students who have a responsible attitude toward credit card use can obviously glean a lot of value from their new-age relationships with issuers. Continue reading
What successful techniques have you used in your company to improve the overall cash flow and spur innovation? Continue reading
Ever since innovation became the buzzword du Jour, a lot of people seem to have lost their ability to tell smart ideas from stupid ones. Case in point: the financial “innovations” (read: stunningly stupid loan products) that kicked off the trillion-dollar economic meltdown mess we’re currently in. The simplistic notion that “new equals good” has often been a recipe for grand-scale disaster, just as it was in the dotcom debacle at the turn of the millennium. Continue reading
Businesses are always under pressure to reduce their spending and improve their bottom line – that’s just the nature of commerce. But, in recent years, that trend has continued to reassert itself across industries. Continue reading
