http://www.renaud-investments.ro Doorway to investing in Romania Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:43:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Paul Renaud, Head Coach, Renaud, moderating Focus on Telecom , Nov 3, 2011 http://www.renaud-investments.ro/paul-renaud-head-coach-renaud-moderating-focus-on-telecom-nov-3-2011/ Paul Renaud moderating Focus on Telecom , Nov 3, 2011 with Orange, Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent http://www.renaud-investments.ro/paul-renaud-moderating-focus-on-telecom/ I read an interesting article where David Pogue who in his State of the art column ( International Herald Tribune, Aug 25,2011) wrote a scathing report on the Blackberry Bold 9900 especially stating that when it came out...Will anybody care? This guy killed the product and Blackberry. He also reminded ... http://www.renaud-investments.ro/new-product-development-npd-develop-or-die/ Whenever I am asked to speak in public I am very inquisitive with the host organization, drilling them to know more about the audience. Why am I so persistent? If I don't know the audience, I cannot customize my message and "I will lose them". If you are selling your products/ services ... http://www.renaud-investments.ro/segmentation-who-is-the-customer/ Ladies and Gentlemen the world is throwing up. The Vomit brand was created to remind us of climate change. Please look at this video/PDF file as well as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient truth. Do something today about climate change! Download PDF file http://www.renaud-investments.ro/vomit-the-worlds-most-unusual-brand/ Easy steps in developing the right brand and to maintain its effect and appeal on the market: Paul Renaud shares some pretty cool stuff on Branding so please look at this video/PDF file: Download PDF file http://www.renaud-investments.ro/brand-buzz-3-steps-to-effective-brand-development/ Source: Financial times April 14, page 3: "IMF sees steady economic recovery" As my father used to tell me" I hate to tell you so... but I told you so".  He would always take great pleasure in reminding me that he was right on some advice he had given me a ... http://www.renaud-investments.ro/final-step-theres-a-beginning-and-theres-an-end/ It's an easy one. Want to cut costs? Lay off people or ‘terminate their contract' (as we say in Romania). Layoffs imply some form of guaranteed salary in North America. Therefore some of Romanian Managers/Owners I know have been terminating contracts. But what do you do when things pick up ... http://www.renaud-investments.ro/cut-across-the-board-instead-of-cutting-critical-staff/ As a leader you need to look at how you are behaving these days. It's normal to be concerned with just about everything but you also need to look at what you do on a daily basis to keep you focused. Difficult times require you to sharpen your own skills. Take ... http://www.renaud-investments.ro/network-and-focus-on-priorities/ Step #2 Remember that some business can do well during a recession. What does Cisco, Oracle and Google have in common? They were started in the worse possible economical times. I was inspired when I read an article in Business Week. It talks about how companies have persevered when no ... http://www.renaud-investments.ro/startups-in-a-downturn/