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How Telecom Expense Management Benefits Large Scale Enterprises

Strategy Driven

Any organization on a fast growth track often outpaces its strategic technology roll-out plans. This is where telecom expense management companies play a crucial role for your P&L. Technology Asset Management. Telecom and technology billing can read like a foreign language to even the most qualified accounting clerk.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this. Create visibility and credibility for yourself in the organization. o Take on high profile projects. Identify your value proposition. What do you bring to the table? o Build and leverage these relationships.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Technology cannot take the place of human communication… only may add to it. The person who commits to a path of professional development never stops achieving… and profitably impacts his-her business relationships. Language is food for the mind. Browse a dictionary, and you create new ideas.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

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How to Fix the Most Soul-Crushing Meetings

Harvard Business Review

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls. These 'data hogs' likely have different levels of profit based on their spending patterns beyond data plans (e.g.,

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