Efficiency Productivity Sales Sports 
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 15, 2020
It’s a great challenge to accurately measure the effects of advertising, packaging, distribution channels, media expenditures, social media Likes and Tweets, and sales organizational structure on brand share or sales revenue. Products should be tested and optimized. Let’s draw a distinction between the micro and the macro.
Martinka Consulting
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Regular readers know that I like to make analogies between sports and business. If you read the sports page (paper and screen) you know this. I hear it’s huge on sports talk radio, which I don’t listen to. Maybe it’s time to bring in a process expert to improve efficiencies.
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Harvard Business
OCTOBER 10, 2017
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. They will represent the products more consistently.
freshminds
MARCH 22, 2016
This continues through the various pathways in order to search and navigate through the website, for example 'premium best buys', 'in demand' products, fly out pictures for further visual recognition and extensive filtering options for advanced search as well as a quick search.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. ” 4.
Harvard Business
MAY 9, 2016
In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. How Porsche got the product right. In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2017
In the beginning companies sold products. A focus on products means a focus on selling running shoes. Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard.
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