Greetings!
"Excuse me, 'love' a recession?," said a colleague. Actually, there are opportunities in every market condition, and companies are looking for ideas to help their business cope with reduced sales, and challenging capital markets. Our consultants, partners, and advisory board composed insights that we hope you find helpful in this issue. There are opportunities, sometimes contrarian to what companies expect that help you and your management team to win. Read more.
Also this month, we are offering a free webinar with excellent speakers on the topic of making winning decisions in a challenging economy. Attendees will receive a white paper with research on companies that have succeeded in downturns since 1990, and a chance to win an iPhone or Blackberry. We look forward to your feedback as we continue to improve the content of our communication in the coming months.
Sincerely,
Michael Arrigo
Managing Partner, CEO
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| Create Value via Innovation: Be an Arsonist, and a Firefighter - by Paul Sloane |
Value creation in an economic downturn requires blending planning & execution and innovating to create new value. Our advisor Paul Sloane writes, "Innovative leaders are comfortable with ambiguity. They know that there are many ways forward. They are evangelical about the vision but agnostic about how to achieve it. They have a clear strategy but are quite prepared to change tactics. They recognise the need for different leadership styles at different times."
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FreeWebinar
Register to be included in the drawing for an iPhone 3G or Blackberry Curve*
Participants will also be eligible to win one of five copies of Paul Sloane's Book, The Innovative Leader.
All attending
registrants will receive a free white paper "Learning to Love Recessions
- The History of Successful Companies from the last two decades"
* see drawing rules for details.
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Learning to Love Recessions - Opportunities in Innovation & Portfolio Management
July 29th, 2008 at 9:00am Pacific Time
A No World Borders Webinar Event
Speakers: From London - Paul Sloane
Author of "The Innovatiive Leader" and consultant to American Express, British Telecom, Cendant, Experian, Lloyds of London, Motorola, Reckitt Benckiser, Shell Oil, 3M, and other firms. His Creative Leadership and Ideas Workshops are highly reviewed world-wide.
'Paul
delivered an inspirational half day. His session got the highest
ratings of any on our meeting and gave us great ideas we're
implementing to drive positive change.' - Motorola
From Los Angeles - Sue Fisher
Masters in Science, Project Management & PMP; member of No World Borders Consulting team. Ms. Fisher has led large complex enterprise wide projects for Fortune 100 corporations in I, financial services, health care, and regulatory compliance.
Moderator:
In Silicon Valley - Mike Arrigo
Managing Partner, No World Borders |
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Invest in the More Measurable Marketing: Ten Digital Media Issues to Watch in Second Half - 2008
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In difficult economic conditions, the most accountable marketing channels will be best insulated from cuts in spending. The digital media business is no longer simply about buying ad space. It's a discipline focused on distributing experiences-through social networks, videos, widgets and applications, branded content, and, yes, ad placements.
Make no mistake; the traditional practice of media buying is still a
critical component of online marketing. However, to view ads as the
only way to promote a brand or product is to ensure that the brand is
seen as stiff, commercial, and inward-looking.
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Energize Performance : Make Talent a Strategic Priority, Create a Shared Vision of Success
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Companies like to promote the idea that
employees are their biggest source of competitive advantage. Yet the
astonishing reality is that most of them are as unprepared for the
challenge of finding, motivating, and retaining capable workers as they
were a decade ago. In a difficult adjustment such as the current downturn in financial services and other markets, good people are on the street or in a job but looking to switch. Winning companies can capitalize on this to shore up their talent bench by upgrading their team or adding high performers to it.
The
most winning companies in the world have universal characteristics: a
focus on core competencies, and a repeatable method for delivering
excellence - in people as well as products and services.
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Align Business & IT : The Role of the CIO in Transforming Business and Enabling Growth
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Particularly in difficult economic times, the
ability to redefine business can come in large part today from
understanding technology and how it can be an enabler of
transformation. The smartest companies realize that a strong CIO
can take customer and transaction data and help turn it into knowledge
that enables businesses to better understand their markets. Also important is the ability for IT to change from order taker to innovator. Surveying the business stakeholders, developing a process roadmap, prioritizing, communicating, and posting regular success in 90 day increments are critical.
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| Improve Processes to Increase Efficiency or Reduce Risk: Success Story - Advanced Medical Optics FDA Compliance |
A life sciences company with 2007 revenue run rate of over $1 billion needed a global product vigilance process & adverse event system deployed worldwide. The company is a global leader in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of ophthalmic surgical and contact lens care products. No World Borders' role was to implement a system and a process that would help AMO adhere to FDA's rigorous requirements, while being flexible enough to adapt to the company's existing environment.
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Improve Real Estate Via Workplace & Facilities Management
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While no one person
invented Lean Methodologies, no one is given more credit than Taiichi Ohno, father of
the Toyota Production System. Many Lean students would want nothing
more than to spend a day with Taiichi Ohno walking through their plant.
Real estate and related plant and material are typically the most
valuable tangible asset companies have. "Workplace Management" and more recently "Integrated Workplace Management Systems" (IWMS) have become the philosophy and the system / solution to help optimize process around management and efficient use of physical real estate assets.
The workplace has
experienced dramatic changes in the last ten years. Worker mobility
enabled by network and wireless technology has revolutionized work
styles and workplace culture that require new system support tools and
services.
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Cut costs by Focusing on Core Competancies: 12-Step Program for Outsourcing
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The
economic logic of offshoring or outsourcing is to reduce costs. If some people can use some of their
skills more cheaply than others, those people have the competetive advantage.
The idea is that countries should freely trade the items that cost the
least for them to produce.
However, the cost of reduced quality and the
costs associated with managing an offshore or outsourced process need to be considered early in the plan. Read more
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FREE Webinar - Learning to Love Recessions: Deciding What to Cut and What to Keep
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Tuesday July 29th, 9:00am PST
Learn how some of the world's leading brands balance innovation and portfolio management to maximize efficiency and position themselves to launch out of recessionary times for big market gains.
Enter for a chance to win an Apple iPhone 3G or Blackberry Curve*.
FREE Whitepaper to registered attendees
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