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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. Next, you need to develop a strategy for tackling the undesired behaviors. Focus on the "what" in the strategy. How do we execute the strategy?

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

Harvard Business

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. So far, the same seems to hold true for AI: Early AI adopters with a very proactive, strictly offensive strategy report a much better profit outlook than those without one.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

In 2016, HubSpot published a research study showing that a majority of Internet users dislike most forms of pop-ups and mobile ads and see online advertisement as intrusive and negatively disruptive. In 2016, Google is reported to have generated an average of $73 per active user via ads. Ending the Google-Facebook Advertising Duopoly.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. Today, the ability to measure data and adjust strategies in real-time enables marketing to prove its value to the business in entirely new ways. These members are 2.6 times more likely to stay with Kaiser Permanente two years later.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

In 2016, another event focused on the opioid-use crisis in Massachusetts and resulted in 18 innovation proposals. This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term. Challenges. Yet, sponsors often assess proposed concepts for fit and financial return early on.

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

ConsultX

In 2016, ConsultX launched a Business Consulting Software, with a specific portion of the application dedicated to calculating Profit Leakage. Why is it so effective at communicating to Business Owners Here are seven strategies that we’ve tested and proven to get and keep ideal clients – ones that stay on for the long term.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. To help test drive the future, in 2016 Ford paid about $50 million to acquire Chariot, a startup mobility service. Full disclosure: my company, Innosight, has advised Ford on strategy ). How can you tell which opportunities are real and which are science fiction? Insight Center.