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You Can Make Your Sales Data a Lot Better with a Little Discipline

Harvard Business

economy in 2016. That’s why decision makers require spot-on data and efficient, streamlined systems to maintain it. Too many sales teams (and other departments) enter data by hand but create fresh entries instead of searching their systems and updating existing accounts, which muddies their data sets.

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How AI Is Streamlining Marketing and Sales

Harvard Business

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. The reps also become more efficient because Angie routes the right leads to the right reps. Analytics are critical to companies’ performance.

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How Can Digital Suppliers Accelerate Customers’ Transformations?

BCG

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. See “Simplifying IT to Accelerate Digital Transformation,” BCG article, April 2016.)

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

These could range from employee turnover, equipment malfunctions, or even seasonal variations in sales for businesses. “I was approached by a company to investigate why a very important project that should have taken one year actually took five years. 2] The TOC contribution to Healthcare , Eli Schragenheim (2016). [3]

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The lowdown on Retail Week Live 14th-18th March 2016

freshminds

This is a true example of how 'brick and mortar' stores are having to innovate in order to become experiences within themselves to encourage footfall as the efficiency of digital sales and deliveries increases.

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Retail Bank Operational and Digital Leaders Reap the Rewards

BCG

Article Tuesday, May 10, 2016. 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.

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Get More Warm Leads With A Twist On This ‘Tried And True’ Ecommerce Marketing Strategy

Kai Davis

Offer your clients a discount on your services as a special for the holidays, Black Friday sale style. Use your ‘Black Friday’ or ‘Cyber Monday’ sale to promote (and sell) your future services. Draft an email (jumping off template below) to them promoting your future services for sale today.