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Emergence of Formal Behavioral Insights Teams and Initiatives

Steve Shu Consulting

For example, Opower tapped into a great market using software-as-a-service and a behavioral efficiency model for saving energy. Strategy Development. One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless. It’s an opportunity. let alone able to reap large returns from it.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry. For years, U.S. Who takes the hit?

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PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP

Management Consulted

Hewlett-Packard was in negotiations to purchase MCS for $17B prior to the scandal’s blast on the industry, but negotiations predictably broke down in 2000. PwC moved on to acquire Ant’s Eye View, in August 2012, a social media strategy development and consulting firm. and in August 2011, purchased PRTM.