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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

Document, assess, and streamline your pricing processes and pricing artifacts as you go along. Agencies may use common cookie-cutter pricing templates and common documentation requirements, especially when issuing a large volume of task order requests from the same IDIQ vehicle. What do you do then? Why reinvent the wheel?

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

You are trained on how to get into a CEO’s mindset within a lifetime of an engagement while being an outsider. “I am competitive in nature and always give the best in whatever I do and my passions include photography, travelling and embracing new cultures and languages. Very intellectual job – can I do it?

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance. These insights can help companies better train their customer support teams and ensure they’re equipped with the right information to meet customer needs.

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More Universities Need to Teach Sales

Harvard Business

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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Huge Trade in Fake Syrian Passports; Start of "Real Exodus; 6.5 Million Displaced; "Everyone Wants Out"

MishTalk

Preferential treatment Syrians receive in Germany and Sweden has turned Syrian passports into desired, and valuable documents. In a process known as ghost travel, still others borrow a passport from someone who looks similar, then return the passport after they arrive where they want to be. This is a country that has lost its youth.”

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. A wealth of academic literature has documented how high-skilled immigrants, particularly in STEM , and including those who would enter the U.S. But in April, just after U.S.