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Retail Bank Operational and Digital Leaders Reap the Rewards

BCG

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. When I started my career, the most profitable application of force was in sales. Back in the 1990s, sales reps had a lot of information, while customers had relatively little. Sales reps leveraged that information gap to create a lot of trust.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business

But sales hardly budged. Sales finally jumped, with same-store revenue up 6% in 2017, and the stock rose by 40%. They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

They operate in a bubble and do not attend the party. By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015.

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How AI Is Streamlining Marketing and Sales

Harvard Business

Turing’s thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina. The company collects thousands of sales leads from the businesses it serves, and it wishes to interact with them in the intimate, personal manner consumers have come to expect.

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Consulting or Banking

Tom Spencer

Within an investment bank, the work is split into many roles including investment banking, sales and trading, equity research, risk management, operations, and technology. People in the “sales and trading” division buy and sell financial products. Sales people communicate with investors to sell financial products.

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Working from Home

Tom Spencer

Working from Home Your Organisation’s most Productive, Happy and Profitable Year. Actually, both behavioral economics research and WFH practioners argue that having employees WFH can increase your team’s overall productivity, work satisfaction and therefore profit, if managed appropriately. Nathan: “Resist the urge to firefight.