Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Management set a fifteen percent goal for improvement. ” Employees can give each other virtual “kudos” for demonstrating Amazon’s Leadership Principles. We thought they could do more.

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Training Training Culture Leadership 69

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. What not to do. Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your goal is success.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 47

Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to improve performance among frontline workers, the people who actually drive customer experience. In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example.

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How To Retail Productivity Sales 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. Although projects have unique features, there are many similarities between process improvement, system change, M&A, and reorganization projects.

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Change Management Data Company Management 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

They treat recommendation engines more as e-commerce sales and marketing gimmicks — another feature to add to the site — than as crucial investments in virtuous cycle platforms. Recommendations are seen as a technique to sell more online, instead of a renewable resource for relentlessly improving customer insight and their own.

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