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How do you start your own business

Strategy Driven

Find ways to manage your finances efficiently and effectively in order not to spend your entire capital in one place. The point is that the bureaucracy and red tape can put an end to your business faster than any other issue you might run into. Furthermore, the market and customer demand are constantly shifting. Planning Ahead.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Insight Center.

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6 Reasons Salespeople Win or Lose a Sale

Harvard Business Review

Over 50% of marketing and IT prefer a salesperson who will listen and match a solution to solve their specific needs. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. In most industries a single company controls the market. 5: It’s Possible to Cut Through Bureaucracy. 5: It’s Possible to Cut Through Bureaucracy.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point.