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this week’s one liner

Posted: Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 @ 9:28 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Chinese and Japanese are as similar as British and Portugese!

top 10 mistakes in OFFSHORING

Posted: Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 @ 2:55 pm in Global Business, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Top 10 mistakes made in offshore manufacturing
With international offshoring numbers impossible to count, we know only that the trend of offshore production is increasing, with no end in sight.
Though thousands of companies begin an offshoring program every year, it’s astonishing to hear some of the horror stories and the large amount of dissatisfaction. [...]

don’t change the currency, change strategy

Posted: Monday, July 2nd, 2007 @ 2:43 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Chinese yuan is under fire from the United States and its allied world economists.
Brilliant men and women with doctorates have decided that China’s trade imbalance will get so large that the only way to control it is to let the yuan become stronger. The logic works like this:
For example, if 10 [...]

business is football?

Posted: Monday, June 18th, 2007 @ 9:44 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Don’t compare business to Football. It’s more like Ice Hockey. The puck is constantly in motion
This week’s one liner,
Posted by our Road Scholar

choosing international executives

Posted: Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 @ 10:32 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

How to choose right executive for overseas work
The Denver Business Journal - May 25, 2007
by Bill Decker
In organizations, doing international business often is considered a perk.
It’s perceived as exciting and even sexy to go to meetings in Paris, check out suppliers in India, negotiate with partners in Brussels and source talent in Milan. Many times, [...]

China’s Huge Market??

Posted: Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 @ 4:56 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

” When measuring markets, we need to understand which industries are being discussed. The Cheese market in Greece (7 million people) is larger than China’s (1.3 billion) .
This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.

the start up question

Posted: Saturday, April 7th, 2007 @ 10:23 am in Uncategorized | No Comments »

” The first question you need to ask is: Do I want market share or profit share?
This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.

tip of the week, 3.17.07

Posted: Friday, March 16th, 2007 @ 3:09 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

” There are as many ways to buy a business are there are ways to buy a chicken; with feathers, alive, cut up, cooked, or even in a bucket”
This is this week’s one liner, posted by our Road Scholar.