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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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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. During: In order for reps to develop new behavioral skills, they must practice a behavior multiple times before it becomes comfortable and effective. And it has to be related to a relevant task.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. An additional 32% of the population has “pre-diabetes” – meaning that they are at high risk of developing diabetes. of the U.S.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin

Tom Spencer

years ago my touchpoints with blockchain increased, for example, while writing my master degree thesis on “Possible Applications on Health Data and Health Insurance” I interviewed someone in the health space that was working on a blockchain project for his health data startup. I don’t want to give that up.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business

It’s to fulfill personal curiosity and develop yourself as a person; professional or monetary ROI is a happy coincidence. The best reason to build a professionally diverse network, however, isn’t about what you’ll get out of those relationships.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business

Bain & Company and ROI Consultancy Services (formerly PollBuzzer) recently surveyed almost 2,200 consumers in Atlanta and Washington, DC, about the prices at eight retail chains carrying groceries. The intense competition on pricing that pervades many industries makes consumer perception more important than ever.

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