Author, Speaker and Strategist Jill Konrath recently did a series of articles whereby she compared sales stories to safari animals. As she rotated through the giraffes and rhinos, I was personally waiting to hear from the King of Beasts, which of course, finally appeared right on queue: King of Beasts And my hunch was right; [...]

The grocery industry is experiencing a greater level of competition with retail giants, like Walmart, entering the food business and the emergence of wholesale clubs like BJs, Costco and Sam’s Club. To stay ahead of the game, grocers all over the world are focusing more on customer service and the technology that keeps their customers [...]

In 2011, Disney’s relentless focus will be on three core strategic priorities; creating great entertainment, using new technology to enhance the quality and reach of that entertainment, and growing their businesses and promising international markets. They’ve already broke ground (literally) on their promise to international markets. On April 8th, 2011 Walt Disney obtained approval to [...]

Nike just opened a new logistics center in Taicang China in February of 2011. The initiatives that Nike took in this facility are keeping it green, automated, efficient and innovative. This facility is 200,000 square feet and is on target to be the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System). [...]

The new CRUSH Pro Platform was officially launched on February 1st, 2011. The new platform gives users access to the sales intelligence needed to create quality sales leads in an easy point-and click-interface. The new interface now enables subscribing upgraded customers to search the content of their deep dive Fortune 1000 and Global 500 CRUSH [...]