Friday, February 13, 2015

Is change your friend or your enemy?

Change has become constant in global markets. Globalization and digitalization have created new market dynamics, lowered traditional barriers of entry in many markets, revolutionized distribution in many industries and have given customers more choice and influence than ever before.

This kind of environment creates exciting opportunities but is also makes and breaks organizations at a much faster pace. They face increasing number of challenges in global competition and their strategies need continuous revising and refining. This means that strategy execution has to be more agile than ever. Change is good for those who understand their position in this new environment and are able to pursue arising opportunities faster and more effectively than the competition. Change is their friend.

This is why we have taken as our mission at QPR to make customers agile and efficient in their operations. We provide insight to their business operations – through modeling, analyzing, measuring and performance monitoring. This insight enables customer organizations to streamline and improve business operations and to execute their strategies swiftly and effectively.

In these economically challenging times, there is a strong demand for this. Last year, our net sales growth accelerated towards the end of the year and reached +16% organic growth in the fourth quarter 2014. This development shows that in tightening competition, there is a growing demand for tools to drive profitability and operational improvement initiatives. This is why we are forecasting that our growth will continue also this year.

How are things in your organization? Is change your friend or do you sometimes feel threatened by it?

Jari Jaakkola
CEO

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