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Hiring (not Firing) for Soft Skills – TTI Success Insights

Chart Your Course

Let’s say a candidate you’re considering has been using your CRM system for most of her career. How agile will she be in adapting to change if the company were to switch CRM systems, and does she posses the initiative in learning and implementing new technologies that comes from having the well developed skill of continuous learning?

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How to Get Over Your Inaction on Big Data

Harvard Business Review

Doing big data right necessitates the full support of the leadership and everyone in the organization. Big data is not comparable to ERP and CRM applications. During that time, they’ve followed a number of critical steps: They’ve accepted that big data requires a large commitment throughout the organization. What works? What doesn’t?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

If the company is building a SaaS CRM, there may be more requirements around experience with go-to-market and customer lifecycles than how the product itself is built. Eriksson, Banfield and Walkingshaw ’s book Product Leadership has a section that has a lot more detail on this topic).