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How Can Digital Suppliers Accelerate Customers’ Transformations?

BCG

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. Companies “get it.”

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How AI Is Streamlining Marketing and Sales

Harvard Business

CenturyLink is one of the largest telecommunications providers in the United States, serving both small and large businesses nationwide. The company collects thousands of sales leads from the businesses it serves, and it wishes to interact with them in the intimate, personal manner consumers have come to expect.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Bain’s major industries of importance in the Middle East include Airlines & Transportation, Media, Mining, Oil & Gas, Retail, Private Equity, Social & Public Sector, Technology, Telecommunications, Utilities and Alternative energy (the oil will run out one day!).

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business

telecommunications carriers now compete fiercely on price as they try to win new customers. As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms. Yet, on average, companies deliver only 50% to 60% of the financial performance that their strategies and sales forecasts have promised.

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Using Design Thinking to Embed Learning in Our Jobs

Harvard Business

Consider, for example, the challenges that one telecommunications company faced with high turnover in its retail stores. New employees joined, tried to learn about all the product and service plans, became intimidated, and then quit. Almost two-thirds left within the first 60 days. You and Your Team Series.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). The main industries served out of New York include Public Services, Products, and not surprisingly, the Financial Industry.