Breakthrough Insights: The Way Forward

In the second half of 2009, the world's retail industry began to look for signs of economic recovery.

Breakthrough Insights: The Way Forward

FOREWORD

When the rhetoric of success… replaces penetrating understanding and insight …decline will very likely follow.

- Jim Collins, How the Mighty Fall

As 2010 approaches, one word springs to mind as more important than any other: “forward.” The work in 2010 will be to ride the fragments of economic recovery in the scaled markets of the US, Europe, and Asia while capitalizing on resurgent growth in places like China. As this edition of Breakthrough Insightsaddresses, finding this growth will require new approaches – not repeats or optimizations of our old strategies....

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