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The CEO’s Growth Partnership:
Developing a Comprehensive Action-Based Strategy to Reinvigorate Yourself


Navigating professional change and transition requires smart strategies, proven tips and fresh perspectives to succeed. Now more than ever, it is important to have a trusted partner to support you through these critical situations.

Frost & Sullivan’s Growth Partnership Services provides our clients with disciplined research and functional best practices to generate, evaluate and implement powerful growth. In keeping with our own value proposition -- “We Accelerate Growth” -- we are pleased to bring you this issue of the GIL eBulletin, featuring a case study of growth during turbulent times, a common-sense approach to successful acquisitions, a valuable tool to benchmark demand generation and so much more.

We always welcome your feedback on our articles as well as your contributions. Please keep in touch!


Sincerely,



David Frigstad
Chairman

MOVERS & SHAKERS
A New Process Model for
Resource Management



Interview with Dr. Jill Tarter
Director
SETI Institute

SETI scientist Dr. Jill Tarter describes
her path to success and leadership
experiences in a field not commonly
pursued by women.
>>more
 


FEATURED ARTICLE
EMC: A Growth Case Study


By Ben Thompson
Senior Editor
Business Management Magazine


For most firms, merely making it
through the downturn in one piece is
a challenge. But the best focus on
more than just survival; they
focus on growth. >>more
 

ASK THE EXPERT
Key Benchmarks for Demand
Generation: Know How You Compare



By Rob Solomon
CEO and Founder
Bulldog Solutions


Create a blueprint for scalable,
repeatable demand generation
with the Executive Benchmark
Assessment, which helps measure
activities in key areas of demand
generation.
>>more
 

POINT OF VIEW
Actions Speak Louder Than Words


By Catarina Alexon
International Businesswoman and Writer

www.catarinasworld.com

No matter what your business goal,
no matter where you are going in
your career, at some point you need
to put your plans into action.
>>more

 

RECOMMENDED READING
Executing Your Business Transformation:
How to Engage Sweeping Change
Without Killing Yourself or Your Business



Reviewed by Erica Wasserman
eBulletin Editor
Frost & Sullivan

Industry has often struggled
to develop a process that will eliminate
the unpredictable nature of product
development projects. Explore the common
tendencies and discover some solutions
and traits that can produce results from
the many good processes available.
>>more
 

MeetTheBossTV
The Man Who Rescued LEGO


Courtesy of Frost & Sullivan’s Strategic Partner,
MeetTheBossTV


The company had spread itself
thin, and profits were falling.
Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the first person
outside of the founding family to head
LEGO, has changed all of that with some
truly "out of the box" ideas. >>more
 

WE ASKED, YOU ANSWERED
Which of These External Growth Challenges
Are Impacting Your Company?


Increasing pressure on productivity improvements 27.9%
Regulatory/governmental interference (legislative issues) 14%
Industry convergence and integration 30.2%
Economic uncertainty and raising capital 27.9%
*As asked during Frost & Sullivan's June 2010 Chairman's Series
on Growth

 



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