11 Business Challenges in 2011

Articles in this series:

1. Ignoring Politics
2. Going Global
3. Keeping Talent
4. Access to Credit
5. The Economy and Sales Representatives
6. Increased Cyclicality
7. Vendor Performance in the Economic Recovery
8. Real Estate Markets Tightening
9. Growing Need for Business Analytics
10. Setting Prices in the Economic Recovery
11. Balancing Tactics and Strategy in a Growing Economy

What do you expect YOUR biggest challenge to be in 2011? Answer in comments. (Comments are moderated; I review comments twice a day and approve all non-spam comments.)

 

Comments

[Steve Chamenss]

At Longhorn Equipment Rental in Austin TX our biggest challenge is increasing rental rates at the right pace after years of depressed rates. Prices must be raised to become profitable again, but not too high or too fast or we will see too much equipment on the yard. High prices on new equipment for the rental fleet is hard to make work with rental rates, so 1 or 2 year old equipment seems to be the best purchase at this time/