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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. What works well in one country may fare badly in another, especially when the product being sold is a physical rather than a digital one. Next came many more products, the Kindle, video streaming, and its audiobook company, Audible.

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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business

” For example, if you’re a bank branch trying to increase customer loyalty, look at a company in a completely different industry, like Starbucks, and ask how it keeps customers coming back. Usually it would not only be super fun, but it would also open up new avenues of thought that could then be applied to the original brief.”

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How Your Phone Can Help You Set Better Habits

Harvard Business

You probably know your phone, computer, watch, and other gadgets can set reminders for a specific day and time. For a great many habits, that’s the right kind of cue: When I got tired of getting reminder calls from my bank, I asked Siri to “remind me to pay the mortgage at 7 PM on the 15th of each month.”

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. The value of bank branches, for example, is no longer to manually process deposits, but to solve more complex customer problems like providing mortgages. This creates a dilemma for leaders.

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Why Consulting: The 2019 Ultimate Guide

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Sending invoices and getting paid on time. Product Strategy and Launch. The survey was made in January 2019 and is carried out each year at the same time. Project Management. Program Management Office (PMO). Product Development and Launch. How big will the market for product “X” be?

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How to Work Remotely Without Losing Motivation

Harvard Business

Sometimes it’s been across oceans and time zones (we are a military family), and sometimes it’s been across town (the office was short on space; I was a slave to my children’s schedules; the whole operation was virtual). Weather be damned; I’m on it every day.

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Minimum Efficient Scale

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It refers to a business having “just enough” size to be able to produce a product or deliver a service at a reasonable cost. My post office is next to the grocery store, which is next to my bank, which is around the corner from the drug store, etc. In a four-hour dedicated writing time block, I get 3.25 I’ll give you an example.