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Consulting in South Africa – what to expect

Tom Spencer

Consultants in the rainbow nation have continued to operate efficiently and effectively during the Covid pandemic. They are temporary responses to the pandemic, rather than trends that will become part of normal operations after the COVID pandemic comes to an end. Lack of physical engagement with clients has added challenges.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

” They encouraged companies to go beyond CSR (corporate social responsibility) and integrate social impact into companies’ competitive strategy. And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

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Research: When Retail Workers Have Stable Schedules, Sales and Productivity Go Up

Harvard Business

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. If stable scheduling were adopted enterprise-wide, transition costs might well entail the costs of upgrading or replacing existing software systems.). Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

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