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Align sales and marketing to gain customers, drive growth

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Contact center automation can improve productivity, customer experience and employee engagement – not to mention bottom lines – by making it easier for associates to do their jobs well. Fully aligning sales and marketing can bring many benefits to a brand – to customers, employees, and balance sheets alike.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

For us, growth events mean simply concrete, directly observable achievements that foreshadow future success: for example, new customer contracts, initial export sales, new bank or equity financings, expanded production capacity, or expanded people platforms (e.g. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.