ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

It has freed companies from the constraints of their locations and endless paperwork, and helped them to become more robust, flexible, and cost-effective. Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. Reduced Cost. Increased Reliability.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

It is a competitive market in today’s economy. After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. And while the dynamics of the talent market have changed over time, the impact of this change is now upon us in full force. Did we fall asleep? labor force ( Pew Research Center).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2015

You also need to place your operation in the best location possible. You simply have to provide them with lots of information about your operation. It would cost a fortune to employ ten people just to answer emails, letters, and telephone calls. Ask them to create the content for your website, and your marketing emails too.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2015

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC announced the launch of an online business performance assessment forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help executives and managers better assess the performance of their business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

There are financial factors too, and your operational costs may be lower when outsourcing. The investment required to find, employ, and train staff to do so often outweighs that of the one-off cost you would pay a freelancer or a small web developer company. There are offshore markets to explore too. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits. Perform informal market research. Keep labor costs to a minimum.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Make-good efforts cost more on the back end than doing things right on the front end. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. The quality performance standard is zero defects.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2015

Not only are these programs cost effective to implement, but they yield real and immediate bottom line value.”. Sevian Business Programs were developed based on StrategyDriven’s decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Escalating healthcare costs — due in part to the explosion of chronic diseases among Americans — are expected to account for 20% of U.S. GDP by 2020.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17%). Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Access to global markets. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Customer retention.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Turing’s thought experiment spawned scores of science-fiction tales, such as the 2015 hit movie Ex Machina. According to Scott Berns, CenturyLink’s Director of Marketing Operations, the company has approximately 1,600 sales people, and the Angie pilot started with four of them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What are the costs and benefits of self-disruption at that uncertain stage? We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves. These are rarely studied questions. A rare natural experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But the strengthening creates a serious challenge for the big American multinationals with large foreign operations. The standard concern is that the high US dollar hurts America’s manufacturing cost position because US production costs are inflated by the dollar’s appreciation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. Partner organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. The company’s cost of new customer acquisition had ballooned from 5 cents to $50. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. There are two key strategies that multinational executives operating in Brazil should consider. Each requires leaders to pay particular attention to nuances related to the Brazilian market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In 2015, around 40% of new PV installations were accompanied by a battery. Around the world in 2015, additions of renewable power capacity outpaced other forms of electricity generation —coal, gas, oil, and nuclear—combined. Thus markets entering “Energiewende 3.0” For example, in Germany, more than 1.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

But with all the options available to today’s digital marketer it’s important not to lose sight of one important limiting factor, especially in emerging markets: the cost of mobile data. It’s the operating system, applications, and, of course, the access to data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is elegantly logical: Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common method of using last year’s budget as your starting point, then adjusting up or down. Who would argue that a business should not eliminate unjustifiable costs?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Its market value of $46 billion (as of June 2015) is larger than that of Uber, Snapchat, or even Palantir. Last year, Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the leader in the Chinese market. While the Chinese market is close to saturation with over 70% smartphone penetration, the corresponding number for India is less than 20%.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And just in time, too, because the demand for services is on the rise at the same time that the need to rein in costs is becoming ever more acute. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Keeping patients on track for care is not only good for their health but makes more sense from a cost perspective as well.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (training) saves higher costs. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Growth in 2016 is unlikely to be much higher.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. This is important because transaction costs in SME lending can be formidable and, as our research in a recent HBS Working Paper indicates, some small businesses are not being served. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. The same is true for social innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

Prime, which normally costs $99 annually, includes benefits such as free two-day shipping, same-day delivery in some areas, streaming video, streaming music, Kindle library, photo storage, and early access to sales. However, operating income was $178 million (thus, a measly 0.2% And if Amazon loses money on shipping (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

There are four essential elements to the formula: revenues, cost structure, margins, and resource velocity. Key Processes are the operational and managerial capabilities that allow a company to deliver value in a way that can be repeated and scaled.

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