Like all strategy, it requires making a choice of assets, skills, partners, and investment patterns and deciding how much marketing risk can be tolerated.
Potential buyers are often deterred by the difficulty of dissolving an alliance; what's more, competitive assets—skills, customers, and products may have eroded in the interim.
Needed assets, skills, inputs, and staff are often readily available at the cluster location, waiting to be assembled into a new enterprise.
The rise in digital, mobile and social networking technologies is making it ever easier for people to find each other and, as such, to share assets, skills and time.
What easier way could there be to leverage some neglected assets, skills and enthusiasm to cut development costs while improving housing supply, and meeting the new government's aspiration that new housing should be driven by local people?
What are the special assets, skills and experience you bring to the table?
So engaged are we with our worldly concerns that we often lose sight of our human nature -- our innate strengths, qualities, personal assets, skills, gifts, talents and values -- the spokes of the wheel.
Key Findings and Conclusions First, given the distribution of income, assets, skills and capabilities, globalization is benefiting the haves more than the have-nots, resulting in widening disparities and deepening poverty.
As a financial consultant, I think the column could erroneously influence investors wanting to rationalize their own asset management skills.
Re "Beating the Market, Until Expenses Pile Up," (Strategies, Sept. 3), which cited a study that said management fees and other costs drove the average return of mutual funds below that of the market: As a financial consultant, I think the column could erroneously influence investors wanting to rationalize their own asset management skills.
