Seth Godin Blog

MAY 30, 2014

At first, the process of lowering your price involves smart efficiencies. To cut the price a dollar on that ebook or ten dollars on that plane ticket (discounts that few, in the absence of comparison, would notice very much) you have to slash the way things are edited, or people are trained or safety is ensured.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 6, 2022

In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation. Strengthening organizational commitment maximizes employee productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being. link] Change leadership is like an engine maximizing speed, efficiency, and innovation. Increased employee creativity.

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freshminds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As consumers increasingly use their mobiles to become more knowledgeable about products - and even use their phones as an in-aisle companion whilst shopping in-store - the influence of mobile phones on shopping is something a consultant cannot ignore in their financial and business model advice. Comparison websites. Payment Apps.

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Brimstone Consulting

MAY 3, 2021

In comparison, only 24% of leaders who reported not feeling used up said they had to leave to advance, and only 6% expected to leave their current company within the next year. Looking at high-potential employees who aspire to leadership, 86% reported feeling used up at the end of their workday, a 27% increase over the past year.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

The higher the share of cannibalization and the higher the investment devoted in comparison to competitors/peers, the bolder the strategy; using our classificiation, we found four distinct clusters. Successful digital transformations are significantly less focused on cost efficiency and more focused on new products or new customers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth. These technologies increase productivity by making workers more skilled and efficient, and thus have the potential to yield both more economic growth and better jobs.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Microsoft, for example, has a program called MyAnalytics that informs customers of its Office productivity software about how much time they spend on various tasks, and the size and strength of their communications networks. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As families moved out to the suburbs, and interstate highways improved distribution and logistics, a single location focused on a particular product area made a lot of sense. The local toy store seemed positively drab in comparison. Then, as now, economics were shifting abruptly. Today physical locations need to do something more.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

They have meaningfully lower wages, lower productivity, lower innovation activity, and lower exports than large businesses. These companies do create huge numbers of net jobs — and they create jobs that become high-wage, high-productivity, high-innovation, and that drive high exports.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. With productized, you do it the other way around. I don’t believe you have to sell that way.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. A TAP view, by comparison — asking “Who has problems that a mobile phone could address?”

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2022

Business growth m ig ht have brought your business to a point where you can't constantly deliver great product or service. Process improvement is necessary to bring the company back to what made growth possible in the first place: Good products and services. Some of the most common reasons our clients mention are these.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. Posted by Consultant Ninja.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

Comparing marketing efficiency with competitors. ” Measuring how efficiently the marketing organization is using the company’s money keeps everyone accountable for using those funds wisely. That challenge, however, pales in comparison with the difficulty of measuring incremental financial value.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Our hunt for answers started by using our own Workplace Analytics product to aggregate de-identified calendar and email metadata for thousands of enterprise salespeople. Based on this finding, we initiated a program to coach our sales teams to focus on efficiently building and growing their internal and external networks.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It is one of the world’s least efficient energy consumers and its supply crunch is being compounded by falling coal production in the Donbass region, which has been affected by conflict. Those 4mcm are our reverse flows.” Energy supplies are one of Ukraine’s most serious vulnerabilities.

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Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. Industrial Products. Retail and Consumer Products. The different practices of Oliver Wyman include: Automotive. Health and Life Sciences.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

While many critics like to imply that modern organizations pursue the operational efficiency and greater productivity at the expense of equity and fairness, all available evidence in these contexts suggests that there is no such trade-off: Algorithms deliver more-efficient and more-equitable outcomes.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. We wanted to calibrate trust holistically so we could measure it and develop global comparisons. But is it possible to measure digital trust and compare it across countries?

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freshminds

MAY 24, 2016

86% agree it makes life more affordable, 83% agree it makes life more convenient and efficient, 76% agree it's better for the environment, 78% agree it builds a stronger community, 63% agree it is more fun than engaging with traditional companies, 89% agree it is based on trust between providers and users.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine. In this view, an independent and external body best regulates teachers, in which teachers are part of an accountable and efficient production system. What is professionalism exactly?

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Thus, they work towards creating or upgrading current purchasing processes to enhance efficiency and maximize savings. Consumer Products. As a comparison, Bain is collegial, but the work is not as intense and you will not be on the client site as much. Strategic IT. Kearney has its hands in a wide collection of cookie jars.

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MishTalk

JULY 14, 2013

If we were expecting the June 20 liquidity crunch to slow growth in Wealth Management Products (WMP), we may be disappointed. If China is growing so quickly that it is desperate for new workers to leave less productive jobs in the countryside and take more productive jobs in the city then urbanization will make China richer.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Titled “Buy American and Hire American,” it directs federal agencies to review whether existing policies adequately prioritize American products and protect American workers. For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% jobs overall.) So you hire an IT services firm to do that work on a temporary, as-needed basis.

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