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- rivalry between companies to achieve greater market share. Competition between companies for customers will lead to product innovation and improvement, and ultimately, lower prices. The opposite of market competition is...
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- Southwest: Flying High Over the Competition
- Southwest LUV isn't nearing its all-time high, but we're not complaining as long as we clear those treeeee tops!
- Videos 2008-07-04
- Karen Alweil: High-End Retail Visionary
- Karen Alweil Studio represents high-end gift and furniture manufacturers to retailers. Owner Karen Alweil talks about how she finds the best talent and markets their products in a way that gives her an edge over the competition.
- Videos 2008-04-10
- Value Innovation
- The Idea in Brief Struggling to stay ahead of your rivals? No need. Instead of trying to match or beat them on cost or quality, make the other players irrelevant--by staking out new market space...
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Fighting Low-Cost Competitors
- Are your rivals slashing prices to capture market share? Learn the right way to keep them at bay — without destroying your profit margins.It's every executive's worst nightmare: You wake up one day to find that a competitor is selling a product much like yours at a much lower price....
- Articles 2008-02-19
- MarketBusting
- The Idea in Brief You can't outperform rivals if you compete the same way they do. To be king of the jungle, not copycat, you must spur substantial new growth--quickly, profitably, and safely. ...
- Articles 2008-01-04
- Simple Rules for Making Alliances Work
- The Idea in Brief The number of corporate alliances soars 25% a year. And those partnerships account for nearly 33% of many companies' revenue and value. Yet the failure rate for alliances hovers at 60%-70%. According to Hughes and Weiss, that's because too...
- Articles 2007-11-16
- A New View of Competition
- Competition is on the cover of the latest issue of the Wilson Quarterly, the highly readable intellectual smorgasbord published by the Woodrow Wilson Center. Its four articles focus on how competitive American life has become, with obvious implications for business. Daniel Akst, in an article entitled “Strive...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Andy Reif: Turning Video Games into a Professional Sport
- Many businesses have large ambitions. But few start worldwide from their first day. Global video game league Championship Gaming Series kicked off in June with a draft and $5 million in player salaries as well as distribution deals in Africa, Asia, The Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the U.S....
- Videos 2007-09-13
- Anil Rathi: Innovation Through Competition
- Most companies depend on a few top executives for bright ideas. But American Express, Whirlpool and Hilton Hotels have used Anil Rathi's Innovation Challenge to corral thousands of motivated people from around the world to provide solutions to their business problems. Here, Rathi shares secrets and lessons learned from the...
- Videos 2007-09-11
- The Secret to Better Globalization: Train the Company, Not the Worker
- In July a Financial Times poll found that US citizens were three times more likely to believe globalization is having negative rather than positive effects. Because of increasing interconnectedness, many resources, human or otherwise, have been relocated. Competition is fierce and many feel their lifestyles are threatened. In everyday words,...
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- How Wal-Mart Will Save Wal-Mart
- The retailer's executive team in Bentonville knows they can't afford to stand still. What are they doing to put Wal-Mart back on the fast track? The Problem: Opening new stores in big cities Wal-Mart's Solution: Launch efforts to support local businesses and introduce new...
- Articles 2007-08-08
- Ask the Experts: How Would You Fix Wal-Mart?
- Growth is stalled. Image-problems abound. We asked the experts to provide some free advice on how Wal-Mart can solve its current problems. The Problem: Opening new stores in U.S. cities The Summary: Whether it's Best Buy, Target, or Costco, every mega-retailer finds...
- Articles 2007-08-08
- Cherry Pick Top Talent Away from Rivals
- Employ savvy recruiting tactics to poach A players from competitors. by Kim Girard
- Articles 2008-11-20
- How to Beat a Lower-Priced Competitor
- It?s every company?s nightmare: a competitor enters your market with a similar product priced at a fraction of what you currently charge. You need a strategy for beating the low-ballers. So what?s the best way to proceed? On the one hand, all you need to do is...
- Articles 2007-06-14
- Cyberbanking and currency competition
- To a significant degree, the improved inflation performance among developed countries is a result of the increase in effective competition among national currencies. To a very real extent, the world's citizens are already enjoying the advantages of competition among currencies. National monetary authorities are already discovering that to attract...
- White papers 1996-05-23
- Winning In a Tough Economy
- Howard Stevens, founder and CEO of HR Chally Management, says that a down economy is the best time to aggressively take on your competitors--if you have the courage. He also points out that a leader's key tasks within the company are to keep things calm, figure out what needs cutting,...
- Videos 2009-01-13
- Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki |Book Brief
- Guy Kawasaki has long been a popular and respected author, blogger, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. His latest book, "Reality Check," is chock full of advice for any business person looking to outsmart, out-manage, and out-market the competition.
- Videos 2008-10-27
- Chain-Store Pricing and the Structure of Retail Markets
- This paper investigates competition between chain-stores and independents in the UK opticians' industry, using the relationship between the number of outlets present in a local market and the market size. Chain-stores are shown to have a significant effect on local market competition. In addition, the empirical approach is extended to...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Kill Your Competition With Kindness
- Here's a quick tip on how to get the upper hand on a dreaded competitor: Be nice. Laurie Ruettimann of Punk Rock Human Resources writes, "The best way to kill your competition is to humanize them, friend them, and mentor them. They will realize, rather quickly,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Five Steps To Improve Your Competitive Intelligence
- Business is changing from one moment to the next. So is competition. How to keep up with the competition? How to get the scoop on them and use it effectively in product development and brand management? Is calling the competitor in the guise of a potential customer the answer? This...
- White papers 2004-06-01
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