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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. This is extremely frustrating for the customer as she has to spend more time and energy explaining her case to multiple departments and wait uncertainly as each one tries to push responsibility on to the other.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. With the same product, policies, and people). With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. A few people were fired as a result.

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6 Turnaround Tactics for a Failing Team

Rick Conlow

Team failures, which sit at about 60% , demoralize employees, reduce productivity, cost companies billions of dollars, and inhibit innovation. With the same product, policies, and people). With training for multiple process improvement action teams, they won the JD Power Award. A few people were fired as a result.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Successful startups grow by building a product or service that meets the needs of customers. This is extremely frustrating for the customer as she has to spend more time and energy explaining her case to multiple departments and wait uncertainly as each one tries to push responsibility on to the other.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. It’s that the U.S. based companies.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

For example, a key source of concern for some companies is more-restrictive rules of origin, which would reduce the amount of materials allowed to be used tariff-free for products traded to and from NAFTA member countries. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.