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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

The Operations Manager's is usually not as wide or as deep, focusing on a more specific task, either on methodological or functional level. A potential candidate must have methodological experience, e.g. has set up a process documentation for other companies before. Examples are sales operations or revenue ops.

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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. We turned to the classic Cobb-Douglas productivity measure , which assesses how firms transform human resource expenditures and capital investments into outputs such as sales or units produced. The remaining CEOs were termed outsider successions (408 firms).

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Pay your team right: A comprehensive guide to compensation

Asamby Consulting

Equity In addition to comparing your salary with other companies, the internal comparison matters as much. Very common in sales roles, the commission is a percentage of some form of transaction that the employee gets. For a sales role, the commission might be 0.5% Never Miss a New Post - Subscribe to our Newsletter!

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Sentiment Measures vs. Retail Spending: Clueless Clues and Random Noise

MishTalk

Survey Methodology How many people does the conference board survey each month? Supposedly that's all it takes to determine car sales, job prospects, economic slowing, home purchases, etc. Earlier this week the government reported retail sales fell in June, the first drop in four months. Inflation expectations are steady at 5.1

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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business

In comparison to other methods (such as Six Sigma or activity-based costing), ZBB typically does not address operational excellence in core processes (marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing) or fundamental cost drivers such as portfolio complexity, organizational complexity, customer complaints, and quality issues.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Marketing & Sales. Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation. As a comparison, Bain is collegial, but the work is not as intense and you will not be on the client site as much.

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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. Aliyah Jones was having trouble paying attention to the farewell toasts. “No problem,” she said.