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Are you a Loser, Struggler, Con Artist, or Winner?

The Fearless Marketer

You say your team building program will increase the productivity and engagement of a client’s employees, leading to a more successful company. It’s more likely true if you have actually measured increases in productivity and engagement as well as company success. Comparison. Honesty seems simple but it’s not. Technology.

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Is Your Business a “Service” or a “Brand”?

The Fearless Marketer

Almost nobody does because when a new product enters the market, branding isn’t important. Instead, the new product is compared to what came before – in this case the “wired telephone.”. And all the selling points of this new product were about the advantages of the new technology. By proprietary methodologies.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Using a 3-to-1 matching of hospitals with no change as a comparison, we analyzed 1,640 firms in all.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Business growth m ig ht have brought your business to a point where you can't constantly deliver great product or service. Process improvement is necessary to bring the company back to what made growth possible in the first place: Good products and services. Some of the most common reasons our clients mention are these.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. It has a reasonable methodology.

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Would a Hard Brexit Cripple the EU’s Digital Economy?

Harvard Business

Are innovative products widely available? Are people using products for social and entertainment purposes? The chart below shows the rate of change in the Digital Evolution Index over 2008-15 and how the UK performs in comparison to Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Nordic countries. Innovation Reach. Talent Availability.

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. We wanted to calibrate trust holistically so we could measure it and develop global comparisons. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.

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