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How to Provide Connection Equity in a Hybrid World

Next Level Blog

Invest in Connection – Providing connection equity will require creativity, innovation and investment in workspaces and technologies that make it possible. We’ll need to use technology and solutions that level the playing field for all. It depends on the nature of the work, the geographic distance of the group, budgets, etc.

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Going Global? Choose Your Country Wisely

Great Leadership By Dan

Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives. However, companies do not typically start their operations with a global plan. This is where your globalization strategists will spend the most time.

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The Big Picture of Business – Avoid the Tired, Trite Terms: Encourage Original Thought, Focus on Priorities and Strategy

Strategy Driven

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. Expect to render good business all the time.

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Five Steps to Resource Optimization: Any process can be improved.

Strategy Driven

What will happen if you add a channel, trim budget for another or initiate a new contact policy? Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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A Step-by-Step Plan to Improve CMO-COO Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Based on this data, operations recommended marketing cease actively trying to acquire these customers.

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3 Things to Watch as the Digital Side of the U.S. Presidential Campaigns Unfold

Harvard Business Review

For the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama hired one of Facebook’s early employees, Chris Hughes, to drive the campaign’s technology strategy. How will technology impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? In this article, I review three critical aspects to watch: marketing, operations, and profiling.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

And 55% have dedicated innovation budgets. Other companies pray that technology can save them. Sixty-two percent of our panelists report that technology advancements drive their firms'' innovation activities. But technology for technology''s sake can end in disaster. Are their investments paying off?