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Product Portfolio Management: What It Is and Why It Matters for Business Leaders

Epicflow

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.) My peers and I were reacting to the ideas in the report.

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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Black Friday Cyber Monday Agency Deals, Discounts, and Savings Round Up

Kai Davis

Here is a selection of services and products from friends and colleagues that help meet your needs and help you grow. Specials on Kai's Products 34% off Quick Start Roadmapping Get the complete Quick Start Roadmapping for $99 (instead of $150). You'll get the book, resources, SOPs, guides, templates, and videos.

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

Companies trying this approach end up becoming frustrated by the number of spreadsheets required to capture the information necessary to generate accurate reporting, complete project analysis and process project billings. This also mandates generating project reports outside of the ERP solution’s report writer.

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LSA Global Delivers Sales Leadership Workshop for an Industrial Technology Company

LSA Global

The cross-selling strategy was part of a strategic sales initiative to grow globally while achieving economies of scale across markets, regions, products, services, and suppliers.

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