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A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales

Harvard Business

Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations , with strong results. Microsoft, where we work, is no exception, and B2B sales is one of the areas where we are seeing the most value.

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2014 List of Strategy Consulting Firms in Sydney

Tom Spencer

BCG partners with clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their enterprises. Kearney’s services include strategy, innovation, sales & marketing, operations, strategic IT, and procurement.

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Australia's Alleged Conservatives Surrender to Unions; GM Australia vs. GM US; Currency Madness Everywhere

MishTalk

Labor Party heavy and former ACTU secretary Greg Combet is one of the appointees - he is going to advise on enterprise bargains with the unions. For 20 years, regardless of the legislation, about half of our companies have been incrementally enterprise bargaining themselves into bankruptcy, while the other half have not.

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Strategy and general business consulting firms in Australia

Tom Spencer

Services offered include complexity management, enterprise transformation, operations, procurement solutions, strategic information technology, strategy and sustainability. The Birchman Group provides six core services: value management, business advisory, IT advisory, enterprise applications, software development, and business change.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Yet every enterprise is essentially a square-peg business waiting for a round-hole world.

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Business Activity Contracts in Japan, Modest Expansion in China; PBOC Rate Cut Seen

MishTalk

Although only moderate, the rate of contraction was quicker than the average since the increase in the sales tax was implemented in April 2014. The People’s Bank of China will cut benchmark deposit and lending rates again next quarter as the economy slows, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. in February, down from 51.3

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business

According to several studies, such as Nielsen’s The Sustainability Imperative , global consumers say they will pay more for sustainable consumer brands, and sales of consumer goods with a demonstrated commitment to sustainability have grown more than 4% globally, while those without grew less than 1%.