B2B News:
Responsible managers need to keep current about what is happening with peers, competitors, and mavericks in the consumer marketplace. New things in the world of the Entrepreneur are detailed this month in Entrepreneur magazine.
Many different levels of executive decision making and managerial expertise are examined in various interactions between business planning and real-world execution. But these success stories can help new startup chiefs know where and when to strike when the iron is hot.
Read about how a new Portland Oregon coffee company zeroed in on the gourmet beans and grinding market the rest of the franchise world missed out on. One story details how the critical path of one franchise was geographical move that favored the customer’s choice of locations for making purchases, instead of the owner’s convenience. The analysis of this crowded business space by varying tiers of service offerings is a case study in managerial integrity in an of itself. Full article.