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What Is Blue Ocean Strategy?

Success

Prior to 2007, few of us knew we wanted a device with a touch screen that could take calls, send messages, play music and offer multitudes of apps. A deep SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis may be one tool to employ. In some cases, consumers may not even know that they want something. Consider the iPhone.

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UK productivity continues to drag despite variations across sectors

Workplace Insight

The UK has seen a significant dip in productivity growth since the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8, according to a new report from PwC UK. However, this new analysis also highlights sectoral differences in productivity growth, with some sectors performing better than others in recent years.

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Great Visualization of the Changing Part-Time Workforce

Small Business Labs

 The size of the "lolly" represents the size of the industry and the bottom of the stem shows the mix in 2007.  All industries had a greater share of PTER workers in 2013 than in 2007 (all the lollipops point upwards). Very cool chart and a great way to visually represent data.

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Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT

The Small Business Blog

Why Your Small Business Needs A SWOT by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 17, 2010 As a small business owner, or entrepreneur, you have no doubt heard of a SWOT analysis. But with a heavy workload, is it really necessary for your small business to complete a SWOT analysis? Opportunities : external factors that will make success easier.

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Insight, Innovation and Finding Aha's

Small Business Labs

But we consider two to be of the greatest importance to us in our trend spotting and analysis work. For example, we started researching the coworing movement when it first started back in 2007. The study of emerging fringe groups or edge activities, called extremities by the authors, is one of our key research methods.

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Major Shift in Thinking About Americans with Multiple Jobs

Small Business Labs

.  We first wrote about this almost a decade ago (and we were by no means the first) and some of our first blog posts  --way back in 2007 -- are on these topics. This is done by thorough data collection and rigorous analysis, both of which require a lot of time - often years in the case of the data. 

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"Which means, according to new research emerging from many quarters, that our continued devotion to."

Denise Aday

An analysis.). Bill McKibben in 2007. “Which means, according to new research emerging from many quarters, that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually.” - In other words, money ? happiness. ( Still — and now even more urgently — spot on.

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