Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

alone spend more than $20 billion annually (by conservative estimates) to train salespeople on products, selling skills, and territory management, demonstrates the widespread belief that you can help “make” salespeople great. selling complex products against competition). Yet the fact that companies in the U.S.

Sales 33

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. For product development, the offering needs to evolve constantly to meet members’ needs – changes only every year or two won’t cut it.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. ” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. Uncover the core beliefs that motivate these behaviors.

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Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. What role could software play in that equation?

Software 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Meanwhile, its transmission model reduces the costs of transactions, enables verification and efficient exchange of ownership, and opens the door to real-time micropayments. medical) information, and, even, electrical grid management. Of course, the $73 is just an average over nearly one billion active users. Ending Marketing Fraud and Spam.

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