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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. For example, in one store, a challenge was how to get more walk-in customers. Shana Novak/Getty Images.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters in Today’s Workplace

Rick Conlow

Performance-Based Bonuses: Companies can implement performance-based bonus programs tied to specific targets or metrics. Innovation Awards: Recognizing and rewarding employees who produce innovative ideas, process improvements, or new products/services can encourage a culture of creativity and entrepreneurship.

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A Business Case in Project Management: Why Start a Project?

Epicflow

To get their support and approval, they need to understand what value an initiative will bring to their business, or how it’s supposed to solve an existing business problem. Why is it important, and how to compile a convincing business case? This is when a business case document is required. Let’s figure it out in the article. .

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4-Step Checklist to Better Change Management

LSA Global

Step-by-step, it will lead you through the change process, improve your chances of beating the odds, and guide you toward success. #1. You will need processes, practices and systems in place to support the change process before you begin. Design change success metrics to measure progress toward the desired state.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Here’s how I’d recommend shifting your thinking about customer success as you grow: Founding Stage (0–5 employees). What to do.

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

Harvard Business

Although projects have unique features, there are many similarities between process improvement, system change, M&A, and reorganization projects. There are opportunities to capture information about the team involved, the population engaged in the change, how long it took to implement, what tactics were used, and so on.

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Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems.