How firms are coping

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Mixed news from a recent S+B survey of execs. 75% say they do not need extra financial support – as I suspected – though that may change of course.  More worrying is that most seem not to be taking the correct actions, given their specific situations.

The article by Shumeet Banerji CEO of Booz & Co and Neil McArthur MD of Booz Europe helpfully groups firms into 4 categories ...

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Strategy in tough times

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I have just been asked to include a specific extra section on this in the LBS ADP executive course on which I teach, which reminds me it may be useful to many others, so here’s a very short summary

First, it’s unlikely that making big throws on changing your strategic positioning will help much – it may even be damaging. Sure, you might get a bit of revenue support from adding or moving to a slightly lower-priced proposition as ...

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