China sharpens maritime economic statecraft amid US tensions
15 October 2025 — Recent Chinese actions, from sanctioning U.S. subsidiaries of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean to imposing steep port fees on U.S.-linked vessels, illustrate Beijing’s growing use of targeted economic tools in the maritime domain.
Revenue growth from existing customer base
26 June 2014 — Growth strategies typically focus on diversification and expansion into new areas. Reddal also has talked about the importance of venturing into new areas. This article describes how to run a growth program for existing customers as a systematic process – from identifying the growth accounts and their potential, to managing and following up the sales execution.
Improving decision-making by including uncertainty in budgets
14 April 2014 — Quantifying and estimating project and investment results are very important for financial planning, investment comparison and decision making purposes. However, business is always conducted in an uncertain environment while financial planning is commonly done using single-value revenue and cost-side estimates, which managers assess using rules of thumb. In this article, we present an approach where the best, base and the worst case scenarios are used to improve the estimates.
Lessons from the Nordics – perspectives on Korean venture capital and startup ecosystem
29 September 2021 — The Nordic startup ecosystems have grown their significance during the past decades, the development phases and key characteristics of the ecosystems can offer lessons to learn for the Korean startup landscape.
Cyber security - more complexity, more business
29 January 2015 — The total number of security incidents has increased by 48% from 2013 to 2014. It comes as no surprise then that global IT security is expected to grow at a pace of 10% annually. The World Economic Forum ranked cyberattacks among the top 5 most likely global risks in 2014.
Competitiveness of the Korean technology startup ecosystem and opportunities for global corporations
14 October 2021 — In this webinar organized by the European Chamber of Commerce in Korea, we discuss the competitiveness of the Korea technology startup ecosystem and what it can provide to global corporations.
Reddal Talks: Strategy, honestly! Ep. 2 Porter's five forces
12 July 2021 — In our "Strategy, honestly!" video podcast series we discuss some of the common strategy tools and methodologies, in an honest way. Moving on from the simpler SWOT analysis, we do have yet another model to present that may help you in carrying out strategy work.
Applying an iterative “lean startup” approach to geographic expansion
2 October 2013 — “Lean Startup” is an increasingly prevalent doctrine for startups around the world. In addition to product development, the lean startup ideas and best practices can be applied in corporations more broadly especially for new corporate business ventures and, particularly, market expansion for globally ambitious companies.