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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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What Top Sales Leaders Do Better

LSA Global

The Top Sales Leader Effect ? What Top Sales Leaders Do Better than their Peers Getting the right person to lead Sales matters. The impact of top sales leaders is enormous. So, what is it that top sales leaders do better? Sales leadership is about effectively leading, managing, and coaching, not doing more selling.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

To perform and thrive, you have to be able to adapt to an ever changing environment. If you resist and defy change, your company is not long for this world. Here are a few examples from decades of change management consulting projects of now-defunct organizations that, in order to avoid disaster did not.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business

Take the MIT Media Lab’s experiment to see whether it could estimate retail sales performance on “Black Friday,” the day following the US Thanksgiving holiday. Combining this with data on average spend per shopper enabled them to estimate a retailer’s sales , even before the company had recorded it themselves.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. The companies best positioned to change in the next decade will be the ones that set themselves up well now, by collecting the right kind of data and investing in their analytics capacity.

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Job Description: What’s a Management Consultant?

The Clever Consultant

We’ll start this occasional series on job descriptions with: Management Consultant. Based on their latest intelligence, their competitors are not seeing similar dips in sales. Someone in the tablets division, who may be responsible for the sales problem in the first place? Enter the management consultant.

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Leveraging AI Tools for Business Success

Business Consulting Agency

Example Tool: Zendesk – Uses AI to enhance customer service interactions through automated responses and support ticket management. Example Tool: HubSpot – Integrates AI in its CRM platform to optimize marketing and sales strategies through better lead scoring, email marketing personalization, and content management.

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