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Predatory Pricing: What It Is, How It Works, & What It Looks Like

Hubspot Sales

Since those local outlets can no longer bring in customers and can't afford to sell their mattresses at a $300 loss, they go out of business, leaving the major retailer as the only mattress supplier in the market. Walmart and Target engaged in a price war on prescription drugs in Minnesota in 2007.

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Shareholder vs Stakeholder: What's the Difference?

Hubspot Sales

They can include: Customers Suppliers Communities Creditors Unions Government agencies Primary Stakeholders Primary stakeholders are those who most directly impact business outcomes and, in turn, are often most closely impacted by how that business performs.

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Equipped for the Inevitable: The Owens Corning Story

Luminas Strategy

Therefore, at the beginning of 2007, a critical objective was issued to the organization, all employees must be accountable for the value they create for their customers. As far as their customers were concerned, because Owens Corning’s investments and go-to market strategy were so broad, they had become a transactional supplier.

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The Loyal Brain

Service Excellence Partners

2001) Antecedents of commitment and trust in customer–supplier relationships in high technology markets. At renewal time, their striatal tissues bathe in the abundant tonic. And customer brains just do what they’re wired to do—stick with their favorite brand. Sources: [1] Plassman, H., Kenning, P., and Ahlert, D. 2] Deppe, M., Schwindt, W.,

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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

The leaders of these firms say that they marked 2016 as the year in which they felt that they could put the dark days of the 2007-08 recession behind them, once and for all. The collective intelligence of crowds – employees, customers, suppliers, etc. Many construction firms are family led. Employees become extended family.

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Moving Lean Construction into the Digital Age: Last Planner Meets Collective Intelligence

Planview

The leaders of these firms say that they marked 2016 as the year in which they felt that they could put the dark days of the 2007-08 recession behind them, once and for all. The collective intelligence of crowds – employees, customers, suppliers, etc. Many construction firms are family led. Employees become extended family.

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Agency processes and client management, with Rob Da Costa

Account Management Skills

Rob started his PR agency in the early nineties and after eleven years he had built it up to 25 people, at which point he sold it and started Da Costa Coaching in 2007. What have you seen since 2007 Rob, when you started to help agencies, what do you feel has got harder for agencies and what, perhaps, has got easier?