The Long Game -- Business Satisfaction Matrix

The Economist Intelligence Unit Corporate Network surveys annually our members across Asia about business conditions, prospects and risks. The results for Japan for the last survey, conducted in December 2007, are a combination of the usual gloom and whinges about rising costs, staffi ng challenges and a slowing economy (well, management has to justify its existence somehow I suppose) and relative satisfaction at actual performance and profi tability. And if management thinks it has challenges here, they are dwarfed by what companies face elsewhere. Japan as a cushy number—who would have thought it?

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