{"id":2802,"date":"2007-02-17T21:59:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T21:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2007-02-17T21:59:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T21:59:05","slug":"the_dna_of_wal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"The DNA of Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brandautopsy.typepad.com\/brandautopsy\/2007\/02\/the_dna_of_walm.html\">John Moore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I&rsquo;ve already gushed about Bill Marquard&rsquo;s business strategy book, WAL-SMART. In the book, this former Wal-Mart executive explains because of Wal-Mart&rsquo;s unbridled success, this mega-retailer has forever changed the game of business from sourcing to distribution to pricing to inventory methods to merchandising. It&rsquo;s now up to companies today (and tomorrow) to deal with doing business in the world that Wal-Mart has created and redefined.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nSince Marquard spent time at Wal-Mart in the late 90s responsible for developing the company&rsquo;s strategic planning processes, he has a very unique understanding of the company&rsquo;s DNA. In the book, Marquard shares five key cultural underpinnings that make Wal-Mart the company it is. (Good stuff!)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Moore: I&rsquo;ve already gushed about Bill Marquard&rsquo;s business strategy book, WAL-SMART. In the book, this former Wal-Mart executive explains because of Wal-Mart&rsquo;s unbridled success, this mega-retailer has forever changed the game of business from sourcing to distribution to pricing to inventory methods to merchandising. It&rsquo;s now up to companies today (and tomorrow) to deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}