Who has a better strategy?

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

I advised a well known food company in Central Luzon.  The leader was frozen food company whose sales reached P20 B.   The one that I advised made P3B.

However they had a competition which had sales double theirs.     While my subject thought about expanding their plant (they were talking to the supplier for food processing machinery) and prided themselves for creating their own blast freezer.  their competition thinks of linkages with smaller

food manufacturers.   They consolidated smaller producer to be part of their umbrella, use their brand

and their ads, logistics, and distribution system.

Who is more successful?

Who has a more effective strategy? Why

Is physical plant expansion always a good strategy

Who sells more? Who is more effective? Who wins awards?

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

While working in a pharma company, I was able to observe two account executives at work:

     one was hard working, covers all his accounts religiously, gives uniform trade discounts;

     the other one covers only two king accounts, hires a driver to deliver samples and pamphlets

           to small accounts, does not give discounts to other outlets, gives only big discounts to his

           to major, king accounts.

Questions:

1.  Who sells more?

2.   Who is more effective?

3/  Would you be one or the other?

Business and success lessons from movie "Battleship"

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

This post happened to watch "Battleship" at a video streaming app.  There are several lessons that are related to success and or business strategy:

  1.  Technology, even old ones can be used to defeat competition and/or adversary

       When communications radar and other facilities were jammed, locating the enemy alternataive

       was through the tsunami warning system of the Japanese.

       Even USS Missouri battleship 70 years old was useful in destroying the enemy.

      Conversely, high technology, if there are more superior alien technology cant defeat the enemy

2.  No one is ever too old or too young to contribute towards a goal

    Hooper was not too young.

    The USS Missouri officers were not too old to run an old ship and fire their cannons.  (when 

     the destroyer John Paul Jones was destroyed by alien firepower.

    The crippled (but with prosthetic Lt Commander black retired Navy officer  (who had self doubts

     in the beginning was very useful in fighting the aliens

3.  Every strong adversary have weakness and chinks in their armor.

    That was all that was needed by Hopper to defeat the aliens:  ie that they hate bright lights  Sun

    So they took them on battle facing the sunset or sun rise.  Being blinded by bright light was

    used to the hilt and to the advantage by Hooper.

4.  Those who were weak become strong

     It was said in Corinthings.  I am weak now I am strong.   That was Hooper.

5.  The difficulties with personal life can be tougher than the job or challenges.

     Like Hooper getting the OK of the Father in Law commander.