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5 Tips For Improving Productivity and Lead Generation Within Your Company

Strategy Driven

Operating a business in this regard isn’t easy at all, and this, in many cases, leads to companies becoming stagnant as you get comfortable where you’re at now. This is common and not always the wrong decision; when you’re comfortable and can see that your business model will remain sustainable, why risk anything?

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Taking Your Business Forward: The Best Practices To Follow

Strategy Driven

You could keep up to date with industry updates by following the mega publications like Search Engine Land , Search Engine Watch or the smaller, more actionable update blogs, such as local SEO specialist Jon Monk’s Max Your Web. No business can be expected to move forward without some changes.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

Boeing undertook one of the most extensive outsourcing campaigns that it has ever attempted in its history. And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

After a series of meetings with Silicon Valley stalwarts like Google, Apple, and Amazon, we decided to develop our own IoT software and hired the people who could help us do it. The traditional business model is based on identifying a need and meeting it, or defining a problem and solving it. It’s a model that works.

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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model? Digital photography is far more convenient than developing film. Again and again this story repeated itself in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Not nearly so often.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing sense that so-called lean start-up techniques — developing a minimal viable product, learning in the marketplace, and pivoting based on market feedback — can help to unleash this potential. That doesn''t mean that companies should either outsource the task or bring in entirely fresh blood.

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