Homenews

  • Seven weeks working ‘pro bono’ with a charity

    • 22 January 2016
    • Posted by: oprek_web
    • Categories: Business plans, Uncategorized
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    Growth through innovation/creativity. Rather than be constrained by ideas for new products, services and new markets coming from just a few people, a Thinking Corporation can tap into the employees.

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  • Retail banks wake up to digital lending this year

    • 22 January 2016
    • Posted by: oprek_web
    • Categories: Franchising, Uncategorized
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    The effort vastly improved the company’s planning and execution functions, created and implemented a new stock policy that accounted for specific SKUs and key variables, streamlined the order preparation process and reduced distribution transport times.

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  • A digital prescription for the pharma industry

    • 22 January 2016
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    • Categories: Business plans, Uncategorized
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    Supported by a robust sales force and tight cost controls, Pharm Ltd. experienced sustained double-digit growth over a number of years, only to find that their supply chain struggled to keep pace. In particular, the initial state of the company’s sales.

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  • Harvest great ideas from your company’s best assets

    • 25 December 2015
    • Posted by: oprek_web
    • Categories: Competitive research, Uncategorized
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    In particular, the initial state of the company’s sales and operations planning capabilities limited their ability to account for demand variability or raw material lead times in production and distribution. Improve sales and operations and production planning.

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  • Three Social Media Hacks for the Busy Entrepreneur

    • 25 December 2015
    • Posted by: oprek_web
    • Categories: Innovation, Uncategorized
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    The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.

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  • Stick with Your Concept but Do Your Homework

    • 25 December 2015
    • Posted by: oprek_web
    • Categories: Economics, Uncategorized
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    With hundreds of medications in the market, Pharm Ltd. needed a proper method to predict and manage their inventory. Using a mean absolute percentage analysis (MAPE), the teams defined appropriate levels for raw materials and finished products by mapping.

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  • Narrow Your Focus to Prevent Overanalysis

    • 14 December 2015
    • Posted by: oprek_web
    • Categories: Franchising, Uncategorized
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    What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. Says Morgan Fraud, the author of The Thinking Corporation, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes how do you successfully generate, capture, process and implement ideas?”

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