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Scalability is defined as possible meaningful changes in magnitude or capacity.  In business terms, it’s the capability of a system to enhance productivity upon resource augmentation.  Scalability provides an organization the capabilities to develop compelling value propositions—that are hard to imitate by the rivals—and achieve profitable growth even in the wake of external threats, cut-throat competition, stringent laws, or financial downturns.

Today’s challenging business ecosystems and econ

The routes to market that Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies use to sell and service their trade account is essentially critical. It determines their sales volume, their ability to deliver the proper levels of customer service in a cost-effective manner, and their success at securing scarce retail shelf space for their products.

Yet, only a few CPG companies have a comprehensive conceptual framework for optimizing their routes to market.

Diving into a Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy

The Go-to-Mark

In this era of rapid change only organizations that are evolving and continuously learning can flourish. Successful organizations discover how to tap their people’s commitment and capacity to learn at all levels.

A Learning Organization is a place where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new ideas and thinking are nurtured, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together. A Learning Organization is established on the princip

Another Successful Example on How to Compete: Putting Customers before Products (From Selling Hospital Beds to Protecting Patients)

Source:

MIT - CISR

Authors:

Moloney, Kate
Ross, Jeanne W.
Beath, Cynthia M.

Some risks are cyclical in nature which can be modeled on a risk clock.

In this blog we build up a risk clock and look at why businesses are not good at forecasting cyclical risk events.

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Errors in financial models that banks use on a daily basis could lead to tremendous financial and non-financial losses. It is crucial for banks to understand how they could minimize and manage model risk effectively. In addition, the OCC and the Federal Reserve have recently released new guidelines on model risk management, which will significantly modify their existing model risk management practices.

Antton Barandiaran answered a series of questions written by GFMI before the forthcoming Model

The problems with risk models, a Bank of England speech on why financial models are broken and the general evolution of risk management.

Over the last few months, risk models have come under the spotlight as a potential reason why risk management, as an entire institutional function, is failing.