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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions.

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. In 2016, ConsultX launched a Business Consulting Software, with a specific portion of the application dedicated to calculating Profit Leakage.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Beyond being in the right place, or having the right skills, at the right time, many of these companies have pursued strategies to maximize their advantages in the challenging environment. These pockets of success coexisted with signs of distress, however.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. The industry’s overall business growth has stalled, and investment income has become a critical mainstay.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

Since the beginning of 2016, the financial performance of hospitals and health systems in the United States has significantly worsened. The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. health systems. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Gallup recently released a five-year-long study showing the variance between high and low productivity is 70% attributable to the manager. Synergistic product line firm. Contract manufacturer (of your product).

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business

Their measurements conflict with their managerial inclinations, encouraging them to use earnings booked today to immediately return cash to shareholders. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.