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Companies Are Working with Consumers to Reduce Waste

Harvard Business

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Another apparel company, Patagonia , a high-end outdoor clothier, follows the same credo.

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Marketers Need to Stop Focusing on Loyalty and Start Thinking About Relevance

Harvard Business

But his framework also offers a model for rethinking the traditional four P’s of marketing: product , price , place , and promotion. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services. Consumers typically associate big food companies with mass-production methods and plastic packaging.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business

That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Household Products. BTS GROUP CULTURE. The culture at BTS Group is described by employees as fun, tight-knit, and quirky. This core value has definitely permeated the entire firm culture. This setup has enabled BTS Group to create a collegial and familial culture.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? Learning from Big Companies.

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