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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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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

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An Emotional Connection Matters More than Customer Satisfaction

Harvard Business

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

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How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers

Harvard Business

It is clear that the current VP of Marketing, Lindsey Worster, is committed to this principle, as she told me: “We are all about getting the right message, about the right product, at the right time to our customer — targeted, relevant, and authentic communication is our primary goal.”

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