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Access to Finance: Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises
The starting point for a Focus Group Discussion was an exercise whereby the participants were asked to write down constraints they had encountered in growing or trying to grow their enterprises. These responses were printed on cards, which were placed, in clusters of similar constraints, on the wall for all to see. They became the starting point for more in-depth discussions and were used to reflect the groups' main concerns.

Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises in the southern and eastern African region
In its efforts to promote the creation of quality jobs within the small- and medium-scale enterprise sector, the Regional Project Office for the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program in Harare, Zimbabwe has undertaken two studies aiming to find out what growth-oriented enterprises look like and how the ILO can assist them in their aspirations to grow. This article presents the key findings from the latter of these two studies.

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HOW A BRAND DIES OR HOW NOT TO LEAVE YOUR BRAND TO FATE
In the billion dollar beer market, the brand strength of an American beer is sometimes its most powerful "reason-to-buy." The Wall Street Journal not so long ago had this to say about the Stroh Brewery, the nation's fourth largest brewer, now being sold off: "The sale of Stroh, a 149-year-old Detroit brewer that was once a strong contender in the beer market, is the result of poor brand management in a flat market, distributors said.... It [Stroh] didn't take advantage of its strong regional brands...."
Can you simply grow out of trouble?
While it is important that revenue growth and margins are given enough attention, they are really the responsibility of the operating management. Also, the operating management must be equally charged with task of ensuring proper cash flows. At the board and CEO level, the focus must clearly be on things such as –markets and sustainability of business logic, market size & growth in market size, quality of its balance sheet, product or services portfolio, brand building, innovation, leadership development, and process culture. CEO and his management team must develop and implement strategies addressing these areas.
Mother of a sales performance
As the New York Stock Exchange is now looking at "employee engagement" as a significant predictor of higher share value and market return, and given we are all competing, not just for clients and market share but for good employee talent, maybe a key performance indicator for sales management could be in Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB).
The 800 Pound Gorilla Problem
I was at a board meeting recently where the board and management was discussing the company’s market position. This is a strong company that leads its market and, as a result, one of the board members stated that we were “the 800 pound gorilla in the market.” In my world view, the market was still relatively small so I suggested that we were the 12 pound gorilla. While this got a chuckle, it was instructive and moved the conversation down an interesting path.
Map Strategy with Balanced Scorecard
Effectively developing and communicating high-level business strategy is essential for organizations looking to achieve market leadership. Additionally, creating a results-oriented culture requires a comprehensive management system. Use Demand Metric’s downloadable Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map tool as a basis for implementing a proven business performance management methodology.
Product Management Tools and Techniques
Being market-driven requires organizations to build a strong product management capability. Most organizations struggle to create a role in their business that is exclusively geared towards listening to their market. Those who do, gain a better understanding of what drives VALUE, and incorporate that insight into the product development process.
Performance Management
A relatively new management buzz phrase, performance management, has been gaining popularity recently. Management, particularly sales management, has always been about getting results so clearly whatever sales managers have been doing prior to the emergence of this new concept should also be known as performance management. The article explains the tasks required to maximize performance.
CRM - an intelligent investment
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a process that makes you understand more about customer’s needs and behavior in order to develop strong relationships with them. Customer Relationship Management helps bringing together huge amounts of information about customers, sales and marketing, responsiveness, and market trends for better understanding of customer’s requirements.

Product managers, Product Marketing and Management, Product Management
Product management is a well-understood concept every industry except technology. The role of product management varies from strategic to tactical. The strategic role of product management includes various activities including being the messenger of the market, delivering information to departments that need market facts to make decisions.

How necessary is product management
A good product manager has a very crucial role to play as product management is a position that holds many tasks starting from the inception to finalizing the product. Product management is an interesting concept necessary for understanding the correct way of managing all kinds of tasks related to products and ensuring a ready market for them. Product management is the activity undertaken to manage the products of a company throughout its lifecycle. For being able to establish a good market for the manager needs to be vigilant in all his endeavours like planning, development and marketing of products. Product management course is equipped with all the information that a product manager should have regarding establishing and maintaining a good market for the product. It is vital to learn the techniques of product management in order to a
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