Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sales and marketing were once disciplines ruled by emotions. But somewhere along the way, we recognized that they were based on definable pipelines and applied technology to manage those pipelines. Today you can put a corporate dashboard in place to manage them and tweak the settings to try to boost your results.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years. The bank was using a project management tool, but the lack of discipline in keeping it up to date made it largely fruitless.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

We now see the effects in steel and cement production, crashing commodity prices, capital flight, and a plunging stock market. The guidelines suggest that by 2020, the goals in all the main reform areas should be accomplished, constituting a system that is more suitable to the nation’s socialist-market economy,” said Xinhua.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. What are you really looking for?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. They are about achieving cost reduction and efficiency improvements through automation or meeting government requirements.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Building models with web search data as one of the inputs reduces mean absolute forecast error, a standard measure of prediction accuracy, for monthly national sales predictions on the order of 40% from baseline for auto makes with relatively small market shares, compared to traditional time-series models. Improved pricing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. I’m not just talking about the obvious problem of managers who treat their employees poorly.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

A careful look at what happened to these deals leads to three lessons for managers contemplating mergers in the future. And, crucially, the DOJ did not see benefits to the concentration — no countervailing pro-competitive or efficiency effects that might have tilted the balance in favor of approval. And they knew it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” They start in other markets, with other customers, or with stealth incursions into the edges of your market. ” This attractive, apocryphal quote breaks down upon inspection.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old. When modular in design, they adapt easily for different markets and can evolve over time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Given that this intervention could prevent more suffering than many wonder drugs, one would expect that there would be zero market for a breathing machine that didn’t make lung-preventive ventilation as easy as possible. When health systems insist on interoperable technologies, the market will respond.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Customer comments are also helpful for retailers themselves to understand their market better – fashion chain Zara for instance has been tweaking products in response to customer reviews by sending the comments straight to the manufacturer. Payment Apps. Optimising the in store experience. Social media incentives.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Similar failures among cockpit crews can lead to airline crashes. The managers in charge of these alliances caution us, however, that a positive relationship between irritation and success does not mean that you should be looking for opportunities to create just any conflict.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

All businesses, regardless of industry, have become what I call O2O businesses—their primary marketing objectives are focused on driving people online to drive them offline. Jon Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing. ? ?. Partnership Marketing. Outbound Phone Marketing. Email Marketing. Partnership Marketing.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And that’s not just social media accounts; it’s bank accounts, retailer gift card accounts with cash and credit cards attached, airline loyalty accounts with years of accumulated frequent flyer points, and other accounts with real value. This statistic is alarming, but in fact it significantly understates the scope of the threat.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. The UN also agreed to slash emissions from the airline industry. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

We also provender the cheapest prices on the market. Do you think the best way to get the cheapest plane tickets is by calling the airline? Finding cheap airline tickets can be one of the most frustrating experiences that most of us learn very quickly. Understand how prices are set by airlines!

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