The globalization of markets forces large retailers to re-think their long-term development, combining corporate growth with demand satisfaction. In particular, global markets and the state of over-supply push mass retailers to adopt hard competitive policies based on market-driven management,...

Nei mercati globali le imprese di management consulting diventano un fattore-chiave per fronteggiare i continui cambiamenti imposti dalle dinamiche competitive, sostenendo le aziende con percorsi di sviluppo value-driven. La nuova fase della globalizzazione (dominata dal primato della finanza)...

Product placement is the planned insertion of a brand within a movie, a fiction, etc. It can be used with other communication tools (i.e. advertising, sales promotions, etc.) in order to disseminate brand awareness and characterize brand image, developing brand equity. In global markets, product...

The most widespread kind of innovation in global markets is incremental innovation, which modifies business processes, typically without visible manifestations outside the company. Incremental innovation is also applied to products, bringing changes to their characteristics, and/or impacting on...

In scarcity markets, corporations use to consider the overall market demand as a group of homogeneous buyers. In controlled competition markets, companies stimulate non homogenous demand reactions to competitive supplies, by segmenting market demand. In over-supply markets, where instability is...

In global markets, shopping centres are becoming important agents, defining the kind and quality of intangible features of supplies, not only establishing the assortments, but also affecting the consumption behaviour atmosphere that they determine in all its aspects. In this way, shopping malls...

Intangibles are often become the most critical resources for businesses in global competitive markets. Thus, intangible assets and goods must be managed adopting specific strategies that determine costs with different patterns over time: expenses (with a short term span) and investments (with a...

Product placement is the planned insertion of a brand within a movie, a fiction, etc. It can be used with other communication tools (i.e. advertising, sales promotions, etc.) in order to disseminate brand awareness and characterize brand image, developing brand equity. In global markets, product...

A virtual community is a precious information collation source allowing a company to identify conditions on which to base bubble information and indications regarding the time and manner on which the bubble should be triggered. Observations of virtual community dynamics, people entering and...

Demand Bubble is a temporary client aggregation that is caused by the innovative supply configuration issued by a company. To create demand bubbles companies must have a deep knowledge of their market and their competitors, being able to act and react 'before and better than competitors'. In...