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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

Strategic Planning and Business Development Small business consultants play a pivotal role in strategic planning and business development. They work closely with business owners to assess current operations, identify growth opportunities, and develop actionable strategies to achieve long-term goals.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. In past years leadership development has always been treated as a discretionary expense or even a luxury, and therefore something that could be pared down or eliminated in hard economic times. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. The customer feels cheated if some additional charge comes up on their credit card or if they are denied some discount or insurance claim which was very publicly advertised.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. The customer feels cheated if some additional charge comes up on their credit card or if they are denied some discount or insurance claim which was very publicly advertised.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger.

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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. Renegotiating NAFTA.