David A Fields

JANUARY 28, 2015

A question I was asked: Do you recommend building customized solutions based on each prospect’s problem or having specific products to sell? Text and images are © 2015 David A. I’m struggling with how to balance this. What is your answer to this consultant?

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Henman Performance Executive

JANUARY 7, 2015

Product tampering. The post No Practice Bleeding in 2015 appeared first on Henman Performance Group. Understanding some of the major categories of risk can help you identify the types of crisis for which you should prepare. The nature of your business will determine your risks, but some universal perils exist: Natural disasters.

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MishTalk

MAY 6, 2015

Today's BLS release on Productivity and Cos ts shows a back-to-back decline in productivity accompanied with rising wages. Productivity is up year-over year, but barely, at 0.6%. Nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased at a 1.9 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2015, the U.S.

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MishTalk

APRIL 18, 2015

You are more productive than ever. In March, Caixin, a Chinese business magazine, reported that Midea, a major Chinese manufacturer of air-conditioners and other appliances, plans to cut 6,000 of its 30,000 workers in 2015 to make way for automation. Congratulations. Just don''t expect to be paid more for it.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2018

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. Anecdotes aside, does this user feedback actually help create better products? Maxime Ge/Getty Images. In our study , we analyze the role that Facebook plays in the innovation process.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 15, 2016

Not only was December industrial production an awful -0.4%, November was revised lower from -0.6% The Econoday Consensus Estimates for industrial production and manufacturing were -0.2% December was not a good month for the industrial economy as industrial production fell a sharper-than-expected 0.4 respectively.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

For example, in 2015 the BRICS nations established the New Development Bank ( NDB ) to support infrastructure development in the BRICS nations and other emerging markets. For example, if a business considers offshoring production to China, it must consider how raw materials and other costs of production are likely to change.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 31, 2015

The Canadian dollar plunged below 79 cents US today after data showed Canada’s gross domestic product contracted in November as manufacturing dropped the most since January 2009 and on declines in mining and oil and gas extraction. On Friday, the Financial Post reported Canada GDP Shrinks on Biggest Factory Drop in Six Years.

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MishTalk

JUNE 4, 2015

Economists overestimated Q1 productivity and underestimated Q1 unit labor costs in spite of blaming the weather and the port strike as transitory weakness. Let's take a look at Bloomberg Consensus Estimates for Productivity and Costs. The grinding halt that the economy came to the first quarter pulled nonfarm productivity down by 3.1

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 4, 2021

Adam Grant, management researcher and professor at the Wharton School of Business, shows in his book Give and Take that servant leaders are more productive and more highly regarded by employees. The University of Illinois at Chicago Business School (2015) conducted a study at national restaurant chain.

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 3, 2023

9/15 of my paid products/books/courses are retiring. Along the way, I realized it would be helpful to trim my product line. As I spent time working on the site, with fresh eyes, I could see that the metaphorical digital garden that is my paid products was overgrown, and I decided to trim what was growing there. What then?!

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

Our products work with apps or without apps. In 2012, an estimate of a trillion internet-connected devices (by 2015!) What Customers Actually Did With Smart Products. Our residential products don’t require an app to do their job; instead, they come with a variety of control options, an app among them.

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. But in 2015, CostCo shifted its affiliation to Citigroup’s Visa.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Ratings made by critics, judges, and evaluators determine a range of outcomes, from the seemingly trivial (which wine you pick for dinner or which products you buy from Amazon) to the more consequential (which athletes win Olympic gold or which students get into top universities). Ratings play an enormous role in our lives.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Disruption in business involves having the ability to sense changes occurring in technology, customer behaviors, and product demands and being able to evolve quickly and implement plans outside the norm for long-term survival. The term, "disruption" has become the business buzzword of the year. But it''s more than just jargon.

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BCG

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Manufacturers responded by building new plants to expand production. In 2015, the industry sold just 1.5 In 2015, the industry sold just 1.5 Today, as a limping economy continues to hold domestic buyers in check, the industry finds itself with far too much production capacity. Two measures can improve the situation.

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Women in Consulting

JULY 25, 2013

Fundraising Products The Raisers Edge: Fundraising & Donor Management Online Fundraising Accept Donations Online CRM Charity Software Modules Direct Mail Fundraising Custom Reporting Constituent Relationship. Online Fundraising | Donor Management | Internet Solutions | Event Fundraising | Credit Card Processing. ©

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

My aim here is to explore — and reject — a common explanation for the success of Star Wars, and of businesses, products, and ideas in general. The explanation is that what matters is the relationship between culture and the product at the time it is released. What you need is cultural resonance.

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BCG

JUNE 20, 2016

Given the negative headlines that dominated news coverage about Africa in 2015, the casual observer might conclude that the outlook for business there is gloomy. A wide range of products and services have already found enthusiastic buyers. And certain products—like mobile phones—are a greater priority than food in some regions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. The call center logs customer complaints. Or as Intel Corp.’s

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Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

JANUARY 23, 2023

In 2015, I wrote a blog post on LinkedIn with the witty name: “Let’s Put This Bluntly: Discounts are For Dummies!” Discounts tell me that you don’t believe in the value of your product or service: This might try and be normalized with “get-in” pricing, “introductory pricing”, or some other special price nonsense. Big dollars.

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1 to 1

JANUARY 21, 2015

By now, many individuals have abandoned their lofty New Year''s resolutions, for the promise of renewal has reverted back to business as usual. However, all hope may not be lost quite yet. There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Evidence suggests that a servant leadership style improves employee productivity and creativity. Employees are more likely to provide constructive criticism and engage in productive conflict without fear of exclusion or retaliation. It is in this environment that employees can be creative. References: Amabile, T. Department of Labor.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 24, 2023

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). References: Beswick, C., Bishop, D., &

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MishTalk

APRIL 15, 2015

The string of good news in industrial production snapped at one month. The Fed''s Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report shows Industrial production decreased 0.6 For the first quarter of 2015 as a whole, industrial production declined at an annual rate of 1.0 percent in March after increasing 0.1

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Happy new year, and best wishes for a prosperous and productive 2015. Cavett Robert , founder of America’s National Speakers Association, once said that “character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.”

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BCG

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

According to BCG analysis, deal value will be 30% lower than it was in 2014 through 2015. From 2014 through 2015, the UK saw high levels of M&A activity, primarily on the back of strong annual GDP growth of 2% to 3%, improving consumer sentiment, and a few large deals, such as the one between Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Retention efforts are especially important after the two-year mark because it can take up to two years for a new employee to reach a similar level of productivity as an existing staff member. This indicates that the employee has gotten up to speed with tasks, built working relationships with teammates, and has become a productive contributor.

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BCG

OCTOBER 12, 2016

But if technology is so important, many economists ask, why hasn’t the digital revolution generated the hoped-for increases in traditional macroeconomic metrics such as GDP and productivity? For example, annual productivity growth in the US from 2007 through 2015 hovered at a sluggish 1.3%

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2023

The cost of unproductive conflict The distinction between productive and unproductive conflict lies in the importance of the issue and the amount of energy you put into it. Productive conflict is the open exchange of conflicting or differing ideas. Non-productive conflict is an exchange of conflicting or differing ideas.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

For example, please consider this Reuters September 2014 headline: France Breaks 2015 Deficit-Cutting Promise. The Agreement France agreed to cut its budget deficit to 3% by 2015. billion) in revenues in 2015, enabling him to cut the budget deficit next year to 4.1%. of gross domestic product this year, up from 4.1%

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 4, 2024

The table below shows the expected employee skills from 2015 to 2030. How Data Maturity and Product Analytics Improve Digital Experiences and Business Outcomes. The World Economic Forum suggests that as the utlization of technology increases the in-demand skills across jobs change over the next five to 10 years will continue to shift.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Household Gasoline Expenditures in 2015 On Track to be the Lowest in 11 Years. household is expected to spend about $550 less on gasoline in 2015 compared with 2014, as annual motor fuel expenditures are on track to fall to their lowest level in 11 years. Gasoline prices are forecast to go even lower in 2015. The average U.S.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! University of British Columbia – History 2010 – 2015. What did you find as a result of buying this product/service? What specific feature did you like most about this product/service?

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Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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