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The 5-Step Strategic Cultural Framework For Organizational Proficiency
Learn the important 5 step process you need to create a culturally competent organization.
5 External Forces That Affect Sales and Marketing Success
There are five major external forces that affect your sales and marketing efforts. They operate outside of any specific organization and companies are, for the most part, at their mercy. Are these forces hindering or enhancing your success right now?
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Economy?
Sometimes it seems like the media points out nothing but bad news because it grabs viewers and sells papers. It's easy to be swayed by isolated statistics, but before you panic, look at the bigger economic picture -- you may be pleasantly surprised.
The Greening of Procurement Revisited
“In our rapidly evolving capitalist economies, where it is in the natural order of things for corporations to devour competing corporations, for industries to carve up and digest other industries, one emerging form of capitalism with a fork – sustainable capitalism – would certainly constitute real progress.” From Cannibals With Forks – The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, By John Elkington (Capstone Publishing, Oxford, 1997) Do Cannibals With Forks Constitute Progress? So started the introduction to one of my most popular white papers titled, The Greening of Procurement: How Social Consciousness is Re-Shaping Procurement Practices.

Turnover, what does it cost?
Reducing turnover is a critical step in improving your resiliance during tough economic times. However, Retducing turnover isn't enough, you must retain the right employees. This is the first section in a four part white paper on reducing employee turnover.

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How Can Casual Dining / Fast-Food Franchises Boost Sales with Almost No Additional Cost?
Despite all of the economic levers and factors that many experts might cite, the reality is that fast-food franchises that lack new and fresh ideas will continue to lose out to those that continue to innovate and offer consumers a fresh, exciting experience.
2.1 Growth performance I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
This section examines recent economic performance at the continental and subregional levels. It discusses disparities in growth performance and the factors behind the observed disparities across countries and subregions. The analysis pays particular attention to structural factors such as endowment in natural resources, the role of policies and institutions as well as non-policy drivers of growth, including exogenous factors such as natural calamities, geography, and civil conflicts. The discussion highlights key constraints to growth in Africa and strategies to address these constraints.
Determinants of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Several underlying factors can affect the rate of output change. Key among these are the rate of investment, increase in the size of the workforce, and changes in economic policies.

Conclusions - Promoting Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning What Works
Both domestic and external factors contributed to sub-Saharan Africa's poor overall economic performance in the 1980s and early 1990s. Key constraints to growth included inappropriate economic policies, inadequate human capital development, and low levels of private investment. But for the first time in a generation, there is evidence of economic progress in an increasing number of countries in the region.

African Economic Performance in 2004: A Promise of Things to Come?
Against a backdrop of sustained global growth and high commodity prices, Africa has experienced its best economic performance in many years. While recent economic performance is not merely driven by favourable external factors, African economies still lack proper “shock-absorbers” to withstand internal (e.g. drought and floods, political instability, HIV-Aids, etc.) and external (e.g. volatility of commodity prices and exchange rates) shocks alike. They remain strongly vulnerable. In this context, creating the conditions for the development of indigenous drivers of economic activity (starting with a thriving local private sector) is a top priority.
What s Holding Back Africa s Growth?
This plenary session discussed the contributing factors to Africa s poor economic growth, including the conclusions of the World Economic Forum s Africa Competitiveness Report 2004, and the actions that governments and business can take to promote economic growth. The discussion included calls from business participants and the panel for action against corruption on the continent.

What is the Asian Mindset?
The Asian mindset is unique arising from the cultural, religious and socio-economic factors that are different from the West. Understanding this Asian mentality can help leaders work more effectively with them.
Five things you should do right now to keep your small business growing
This has been one tough year for business. The economic storms have hit virtually every industry and every market and taken a heavy toll. But still, there are plenty of businesses who are doing well, and some are going strong. What is it that makes those businesses so successful in trying times like these? Certainly there are many factors, but here are five common factors that you are likely to find in every one of those standout businesses. Learn these five and your chances for success will go up.
What Are the Factors That Lead to an Economic Crisis?
What is an economic crisis? Most of the time, we are only told that our country is suffering from such state yet we do not even know what has caused it. Is the crisis simply caused about by a poor economy or are there other underlying factors which cause it?
Some Things Are Easier For Your Business in a Recession
If your business is feeling the impact of the economic downturn, think differently about how you could take advantage of the current economic circumstances. Some things are definitely more challenging, but others might actually be easier in these tough economic times.
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