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3 Reasons to Automate Your Business in 2015

Strategy Driven

Communicating with colleagues, manipulating spreadsheets, entering customer information into a CRM… these are all examples of time-consuming manual processes that can be done better and faster by someone (or something) other than you. Then go forth and do more in 2015. Your mouse and keyboard are major sources of inefficiency.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. You list 10 simple steps to solving complexity. Too many things are changing too fast.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

Salesforce Einstein features within your CRM system) the fit with your business processes and IT architecture will require significant planning and time for adaptation. Tech companies like Alphabet have even more learning; that company had 2700 AI projects underway as far back as 2015.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Harnessing Big Potential While Minimizing Risk.

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How Customer Service Can Turn Angry Customers into Loyal Ones

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are understandably reluctant to share their CRM and sales data, and most research in this field has been based on surveys. from March 2015 to April 2016. Or in management parlance, when a brand provides better customer service, will customers reward that brand with greater loyalty or pay a price premium?