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Market selection
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November 2026
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Strategy & leadership14 min readWeighted scoring with a sensitivity check: pick a market, then change the weights
For an owner choosing between a few markets with a scorecard. Write the weights down first, add up the scores, then change the weights to see whether the winner holds. An invented example and the 1988 Nirex case show how easily a winner can change.
Strategy & leadership13 min readWhich market next: CAGE ranks them, Uppsala sizes the step
For an owner who already sells in one foreign country and must pick the second. The short answer: rank the candidates by distance with CAGE, then size the first step by what you know and what you can afford to lose, as the Uppsala model says.