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From meeting-heavy to essential meetings only

Asamby Consulting

Newport, 2016, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World) This leaves employees with little control over their workdays - which reduces productivity even further. This is surely ringing alarm bells for CEOs, Business Managers, and Operations Managers. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Like digital platforms, social media, martech, fintech, and numerous other innovations, the spoils of blockchain may go to early adopters who commit to ruthless innovation. In 2016, Google is reported to have generated an average of $73 per active user via ads. Remonetizing Media Consumption. Related Video. in the next years.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

The list of actions companies take is well-developed and documented, and most large companies do the following: Slash energy use and emissions in operations. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. Embrace renewable energy.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. In a fragmented media and social landscape, marketers can no longer reach their goals for awareness and reputation just through paid media and PR. Old Navy has traditionally dedicated their media budget to TV, particularly around back to school.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business

Like many competitors in the apparel industry, Vineyard Vines has kept their operations lean in order to preserve operating margins. From these analytics, Bluecore dynamically builds intelligent, triggered campaigns that can be run across email and social media channels, or can be used to optimize search engine marketing.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

To help test drive the future, in 2016 Ford paid about $50 million to acquire Chariot, a startup mobility service. Only when the service was successfully operating did Ford begin to expand it, adding dozens of new routes and growing its local fleet to more than 200 vehicles. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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