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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.)

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.)

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Marketing Mix Modeling MMM (Part 1 of 3)

Tom Spencer

Products should be tested and optimized. These questions cannot be answered by copy testing, product testing, or other micro-testing methods. new ways to spend the marketing budget), including the Internet, online communities, search engines, event marketing, sports marketing, viral marketing, cell phones, and text messaging.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! By being larger you can reduce most or all of the following: Customers Employees Management abilities Product Owner. It’s very much like sports, the more the team wins, the greater the number of fans it has. The icing – the top three. The bigger you are…the better.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two?

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Is Your Marketing in the Right Place but at the Wrong Time? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business

By communicating at the most opportune times based on insights into consumer behavior, companies can generate more business with fewer or more efficient ads, or expand their audience to find unexpected wins. Timing comes into play through signals, sequence and speed. ” Speed.