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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

We collaborated with other consulting firms to work with a global client that had intense competition and needed significant performance improvement. Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. This cost the company significant business.

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7 Employee Comments that Destroy a Team

Rick Conlow

Of course, the President preached teamwork, but all the VPs existed in silos and worked to protect their own narrow confines. A few people were hurt, team cooperation suffered and so did sales. Early in my career, I had a process improvement project that included service managers from various locations. Guess what?

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Process improvement is necessary to bring the company back to what made growth possible in the first place: Good products and services. You have said operations problems or feel that you need to streamline processes (beyond the tools and methods that the teams use). Experience in a related field will be helpful of course.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

They treat recommendation engines more as e-commerce sales and marketing gimmicks — another feature to add to the site — than as crucial investments in virtuous cycle platforms. Recommendations are seen as a technique to sell more online, instead of a renewable resource for relentlessly improving customer insight and their own.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. A tit-for-tat trade war.