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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. Selling and merchandising Value stream mapping revealed an additional drag on the company: the sales process. Design may not be important in industrial equipment, but it’s everything in fashion.

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz. Sales for Nerds ( [link] ) helps technical experts who started their own business hack the sales and marketing process. The wine is just for fun.

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The Most Common Systematic Failure In Crisis Communication – And Odds Are, You’re Vulnerable To It

Melissa Agnes

One important aspect of your organization’s successful crisis management, is being able to reach out to, and communicate with, all impacted and relevant stakeholders, in a timely and efficient fashion. Typically, each department owns the relationships with one or more of the organization’s stakeholder groups.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. For one, instead of establishing their own online sales site, they partnered with Amazon, a formidable rival. The company failed on multiple fronts. They were caught behind the times.

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The Ansoff Matrix

Tom Spencer

For example, one of Apple’s product missions might be to provide consumers with easy-to-use digital technology, and another mission might be to provide fashion accessories for Yuppies and young people. This involves increasing sales to existing customers and finding new customers for existing products. The Four Growth Alternatives.

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How are retailers responding to mobile shopping?

freshminds

Because of this, retailers have to respond accordingly as sales via handheld devices increase. Between 2012 and 2014 sales via smartphones catapulted from 5% to to 34%. So what’s most interesting is that mobile sales are becoming a way for express payments whilst in stores themselves. Checking customer reviews.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.