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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

But if you want to thrive in the post-COVID world, you’ve got to start working on operational improvements now. Selling and merchandising Value stream mapping revealed an additional drag on the company: the sales process. As with most companies, the sales team would take dress samples on the road to visit accounts.

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. We discuss what actually works in generating business, from writing books to organizing events to old-fashioned relationship building. Sales for Nerds by Reuben Shwartz. 7 days a week.

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The Ansoff Matrix

Tom Spencer

domestic air transport in America for cost-conscious business travellers). For example, one of Apple’s product missions might be to provide consumers with easy-to-use digital technology, and another mission might be to provide fashion accessories for Yuppies and young people. the transport market) or very narrowly (e.g.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. They were caught behind the times.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Deflation Bonanza! (And the Fool's Mission to Stop It)

MishTalk

like restaurants, travel and hotels. Furniture chains, travel agencies and fashion companies are among the retailers slashing prices to rope in shoppers. For us housewives, this is welcome news for our daily shopping,” said Anita Mueller, who was perusing sales on Banhofstrasse, Zurich’s main thoroughfare, on Monday morning.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

There is a new generation of real-time employee opinion tools that are starting to replace old-fashioned employee opinion surveys — tools that tell you far more than just what employees think every year. We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback.