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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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10 Lessons That All New Business Owners Must Heed In The Modern Era

Strategy Driven

Their data protection services can be supported by staff training to prevent malware and ransomware. Your Approach To Operations Is Key. Both B2B and B2C customers are now invested in brands like never before, they want to work with companies that they can relate to. It should protect you from internal and external threats.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

” The intention was right, but there was no operational impact. All of these examples are B2C. If your business is B2C, the train is about to leave the station. If you’re B2B, the train is parked in the station, but it’s leaving soon. I made a couple mistakes along the way.

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The Rise of the Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

The role exists in B2B and B2C firms as diverse as Allstate, Dunkin' Brands, USAA, Philips Electronics, FedEx, the Cleveland Clinic, and SAP. About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions. Not all CCOs have operationally structured configurations like Boeing's Training & Flight Services division.

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Ban These 5 Words From Your Corporate Values Statement

Harvard Business Review

Practically every organization today has a set of core values that ideally function as the “operating instructions” of the company. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

Much of the conversation about customer-centricity focuses on business-to-consumer (B2C) firms. That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.

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Use Big Data to Find New Micromarkets

Harvard Business Review

While B2C companies have become adept at mining the petabytes of transactional and other purchasing data that consumers generate as they interact online, B2B sales organizations have only recently begun to use big data to inform overall strategy and tailor sales pitches for specific customers in real time.

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