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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Don’t optimize for efficiency.

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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business

ICT has offered new ways of exchanging information and transacting business efficiently and cheaply. The productivity gain from ICT in Africa is unprecedented, and unlike other transformative technologies, like the steam engine and aircrafts, ICT remains a low-hanging application that the locals could participate in on the creative side.

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How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Harvard Business

Shared (often aggregated) corporate data can be used to create intelligence products such as tools, dashboards, reports, apps, and other technical devices to support public or humanitarian objectives. How the Exchange of Data Can Help Solve Public Problems. Finally, data collaboratives can aid in monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Thus, they work towards creating or upgrading current purchasing processes to enhance efficiency and maximize savings. Working anywhere from the strategy related to the business unit to corporate finance and strategy to strategic foresight, A.T. Consumer Products. Strategic IT. Sustainability. Automotive. Communications.