Business Corner
Phil Phillips, Contributing Editor
May 8, 2013
“We hate them but we love them”! This is often said of consultants in general yet over $100 billion dollars were spent globally on consultants in 2012.
Individual consultants range along a continuum in talent and training from none to a d…
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Editor
April 1, 2013
We are continuously struck by the fact that there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of closely held, non-traded manufacturing companies in North America that offer unique products and services year after year, which go largely unnoticed by the general p…
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Editor
March 1, 2013
As consultants, to be sustainable over the years, we must be perceived as totally unbiased and render our opinions without an eye for the “political” consequences of our advice. Consultants must, as the Boy Scouts motto says, also be trus…
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Phil Phillips, Contributing Editor
February 7, 2013
CHEMARK has found that ideas can be forthcoming from many different sources in business organizations. Ideas can be generated for example, from both within the organization itself, as well as outside the direct confines of the organization.
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January 15, 2013
Approximately 80 percent of new product innovation fails, highlighting the challenge that coatings, paints, adhesives, sealants and other specialty chemicals industry players face in innovating in today’s competitive market landscape. Failed in…
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Phil Phillips, Contributing Editor
December 20, 2012
CHEMARK has developed a set ofconsiderations designed to maximize a successful acquistion.
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Phil Phillips, Contributing Editor
December 4, 2012
Making accurate decisions is undoubtedly the most important task of a manager. None of us can make responsible decisions until and unless we possess enough knowledge. Managing knowledge and making accurate decisions are interconnected since they influence one another.
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Phil Phillips, Contributing Editor
October 10, 2012
A discussion with the developers of two game-changing technologies.
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Editor
September 17, 2012
Edison developed the process whereby great products are still invented today.
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Writer
July 24, 2012
Adrian Slywotzky created a business model that has lasted longer than its introduction in 1996 in the book, “Value Migration - How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition.”
Slywotzky defines Value Migration, Marketing and Marketi…
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Ira Miller, Chemark Consulting, Contributing Writer
June 5, 2012
I recently interviewed the founder and CEO of a successful small business and his two sons. The founder wants to grow the business and ensure a place for his sons. The boys want the business to succeed and become the foundation for employment in thei…
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Writer
May 15, 2012
US workforce continues to hurt under offshore growth trends.
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Writer
April 19, 2012
Making the transition from idea to the marketplace.
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Phil Phillips, PhD, Contributing Editor
February 15, 2012
Ever since I took several MBA courses, at Northwestern, I’ve been a fan of Dr. Philip Kotler (Professor of International Marketing at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management). So when he discusses anything about marketing, I listen. K…
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Ira Miller, Contributing Editor, irachemark@aol.com
January 19, 2012
The second of a two-part series exploring the topic of mentoring.
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