January 30, 2008
by Dagmar
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So far I have resisted the wish to comment about the ongoing sub-prime and financial crisis on this blog. I surely have an opinion about all this. However, so much has been written in this matter – analyses, comments, reports, … Continue reading
January 10, 2008
by Dagmar
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My morning reading of the German newspaper FAZ really gave me a happy start into the day. I read an article about the weak stock quotes of the large investment firms like Blackstone or Fortress. There I found this sentence … Continue reading
December 23, 2007
by Oliver
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A couple of weeks ago McKinsey launched a survey on the organizational challenges presented by social and economic trends. The results for this survey are available now; according to available data McKinsey received 1,317 responses from a worldwide representative sample … Continue reading
November 22, 2007
by Oliver
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Quite recently I have found a very interesting study concerning success factors. A large strategy consulting company did analyze these factors for Chinese companies abroad. To compete abroad four major success factors were described: Â Productivity and quality need to … Continue reading
April 16, 2007
by Dagmar
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We all come across various pieces of news and information every day. Most of them don’t get our attention, taken on their own. However, sometimes two seemingly unrelated pieces of information team up in our minds and suddenly become more … Continue reading
March 27, 2007
by Dagmar
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OK, Porsche’s announcement to increase its share in VW is not really new any more. However, I have spent the last few days thinking about the strategic rationale behind that (among other things, of course). And still, I did not … Continue reading
March 14, 2007
by Oliver
Comments Off on Youtube and Viacom
At mid of December last year I posted about the legal disputes (in terms of copyright issues) and the opportunities to generate “Web 2.0-returnsâ€. Now we will face the next level of the copyright battle. Viacom (the media company) takes … Continue reading
February 14, 2007
by Oliver
Comments Off on When will Lower Saxony sell its VW shares?
Lower Saxony, a federal state in the north of Germany, is VW’s second-largest shareholder after Porsche. Due to the so called “Volkswagen law†the state is in a very comfortable position to control the company. The law came into force … Continue reading
February 7, 2007
by Dagmar
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When reading the FT today I discovered a piece of information, which – when put together with some other things – seems to form up a very interesting bigger picture. It was in an analysis of the success of Indian … Continue reading
February 1, 2007
by Dagmar
Comments Off on Toyota in Germany – Update
About one month ago I predicted that Toyota will invest more efforts in the German market soon. So far it seems as if this prediction is in tune with reality: Today, German newspaper Handelsblatt writes that Toyota is going to … Continue reading