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What It Takes To Turn Your Failing Business Around

Strategy Driven

Leadership is a significant part of any business, and it’s highly recommended to get the right executive team to hold the fort. A strong executive team is supposed to make decisions to steer business objectives, and that starts with your hiring decisions. If that is the case, you have two options to explore.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business Review

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. This helps filter out business you shouldn’t pursue.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.