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Business Acquisitions Trending in the Digital Space

Aepiphanni

Despite 2020 being a challenging year for everyone, many companies made strategic business acquisitions into the digital space. It’s titled “1st-time acquisitions of digital businesses expected to continue in 2021.”. As a business owner, are your strategic planning wheels turning based on this continuing digital acquisition trend?

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Managing Partners’ Forum Strategy Summit

Red Star Kim

My takeaways from the insightful facilitators and panellists were: Recruitment of lawyers is down on previous years whereas business support is up Increase in tax hires in law firms Increase in marketing roles (exceeding 2019 numbers) Whilst training/learning roles shrunk compared to 2019 there was an increase in employee relations roles Legal sector (..)

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Key issues in Marketing and Business Development Planning: Engage, Analyse, Expand, Innovate and Measure

Red Star Kim

Key issues in Marketing and Business Development Planning: Engage, Analyse, Expand, Innovate and Measure. all about buy-in in professional services (Manchester and Dublin 2019) (kimtasso.com). In some cases this might involve opening in new territories, forming international alliances or mergers and acquisitions.

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A Study in Contrasts: Companies That Go the Distance, and Those That Don’t…

Strategic Communications

Lack of Innovation and Differentiation: Some of these brands failed to innovate and offer unique value propositions that set them apart from the competition. Apple has maintained its position as a market leader, consistently innovating and introducing new products that captivate consumers, such as the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

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Key Account Management (KAM) – Research companies, use KAM technology and maintain momentum

Red Star Kim

Includes IPOs, acquisitions, grants, accelerators and news. Fame for accountants and professional services firms “tool for general financial research, benchmarking analysis, screening acquisition targets for your clients, client onboarding, company secretarial services and business development”.

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PM Conference Report 2022: Strategy implementation, Employer Value Propositions (EVP), Storytelling and Client Feedback

Red Star Kim

With introductory neuroscience lessons (“sensing, meaning, action”) and illustrations of cognitive bias, there was a fantastic example showing how a role play story was used instead of a pitch to win an acquisitive media client using an inciting incident and escalation. Innovate client experience.

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Private client management and marketing: Business plans, recruitment, assessments and automation (Nov 2023)

Red Star Kim

Top tips for recruitment include: Shape your overall HR strategy to support your firm’s ambitions Ensure your recruitment process is flexible and fast Create an accurate and exciting job description Benchmark salaries and (innovative) benefit packages Develop processes to consider encouraging employee referrals Explore non-traditional recruitment channels (..)