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Empowering Small Business Growth Through Consulting

Business Consulting Agency

Operational Efficiency and Process Improvement Efficient operations are crucial for small businesses to streamline workflows, reduce costs, and enhance productivity. Consultants assess existing processes, identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and implement strategies for process optimization and automation.

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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. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. The customer feels cheated if some additional charge comes up on their credit card or if they are denied some discount or insurance claim which was very publicly advertised.

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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. Gyms and insurance companies are particularly notorious for this. The customer feels cheated if some additional charge comes up on their credit card or if they are denied some discount or insurance claim which was very publicly advertised.

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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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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Over the past couple of years, we have collaborated with the leadership development team at Cargill, one of the world’s largest global agricultural processing and distribution companies, to apply these ideas in a program for high-potential managers called “Leading in a Complex World.” One experiment generated a 2.6%

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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.