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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

You’re missing the boat on “process mining,” the latest improvement breakthrough that will catapult your firm to the top of your industry. According to a new HBR article , process mining will “revitalize process management in firms where it has lain fallow for years.” Yup, that’s right. Gee, that sounds terrific.

Software 124
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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. A good example would be a sales person providing inaccurate information to the customer just to make that sale.

Banking 88
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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. A good example would be a sales person providing inaccurate information to the customer just to make that sale.

Banking 78
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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

Agile 52
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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Stores overwhelmed by a daily stream of directives from headquarters, dozens of sales reports to read, and 100+ management tools to use. Career paths.

Retail 34
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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). The retail organization wanted to see how this applied to its stores.

How To 39
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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Err on the side of over-inclusivity by inviting customer teams to engineering events, sales rallies, and shutting down customer support for company events.

Metrics 49