Wal-Mart, take your victory lap.
Wal-Mart announced yesterday that the company has blown past an ambitious goal of selling 100 million compact fluorescent light bulbs by the end of 2007 -- three months early. This is no small deal ...READ»
Pardon me for being so late to weigh in; not sure where I was when Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott announced he'd be taking a four-week vacation.
Oh, right: I was working.
Let's ignore for a moment the ensuing flap over whether the CEO of ...READ»
Last fall, addressing a conference of American magazine editors in Puerto Rico, Scott finished his speech with a little story. He said Wal-Mart staff members who travel on business for the company -- literally thousands are on the ...READ»
New York — Lee Scott will retire as CEO of Wal-Mart on February 1, and what a legacy he leaves. Sales up 2.4 times, on a $167 billion dollar company. Inventory days down 23% to 34. Receivable days as close to zero as you can ...READ»
Yesterday Wal-Mart's CEO Lee Scott presented a speech to over 7,000 store managers. Surprisingly, the focus of his speech was Wal-Mart's devotion to sustainability. Scott cited the store's selling over 145 million compact fluorescent ...READ»
Two conversations got me thinking: do we know what we’re doing and why we do it?
One conversation was with a senior leader in large company; another was with a friend who runs his own business. Both are highly competent and ...READ»
1. The Mouthworm
Advertisers are particularly vulnerable to getting popular slogans stuck in their heads and riffing on them as opposed to creating a compelling story. That leads to DirecTV's "Fans don't let fans watch only 4 NFL ...READ»
If you opened your local newspaper today, in between the department store white sales and the latest from Iraq, you might have seen Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott defending the pay and benefits it offers its employees in a full-page ad. The ...READ»
In the third post of their 7-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how CEOs are coping with the new wild cards dealt by environmental, social and governance challenges.READ»
To kick off the new year, The New York Times applied its journalistic might to a pretty cool story that landed on this morning's front page: "Wal-Mart Puts Some Muscle Behind Power-Sipping Bulbs."
It's a fascinating report: ...READ»
The crack team of researchers here at InnoWed have scoured today's papers and news sites so you don't have to. Happy reading.
"If it's so good, why aren't you doing it?" - That, reports Thomas Friedman in The New York Times, is ...READ»
Vanity Fair is doing it. The Week is doing it. Even Wal-Mart is doing it. Everyone is going green. So, here's a riddle for you: When is green no longer green? Answer: When it's a green marketing machine.
Just like organic, someone ...READ»
Wal-Mart has succeeded as a highly-evolved culture of the tangible by creating a dazzlingly efficient logistics operation, shaving cent-splinters off an item, and driving down overhead. This is the whole relentless apparatus that ...READ»
Wal-Mart has succeeded as a highly-evolved culture of the tangible by creating a dazzlingly efficient logistics operation, shaving cent-splinters off an item, and driving down overhead. This is the whole relentless apparatus that ...READ»
