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Everybody Loves Bob – Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

Strategy Driven

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. How to create a cadre of professionals at every level – people who focus not just on limited tasks but the overall outcome and ensure that the company gets and keeps happy customers. There are lots of companies like Bob’s, fragmented and inefficient. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

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4 Signs Your Business Needs a Storage Service

Strategy Driven

There comes a time when every commercial retail or wholesale business requires a space that is more than their current capacity. Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

What – This is what the company does to fulfill that core belief. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. Most of these companies neglect to even mention why they do what they do. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

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Don’t Overlook the Small Brands You Already Own

Harvard Business Review

food and beverage over the last four years is coming from twenty thousand companies below the top one hundred largest companies. Many large companies are on an acquisition spree to pick up these small brands to buy growth that is hard for many big brands to generate themselves, often at Silicon Valley-like valuations.

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Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. Across all sales, we replicated our lab results: while the hammer prices of items with high initial expert appraisals soared with the number of total lots in the sale catalogue, lower-quality pieces suffered from the availability of choice.

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. We emailed the Census official in charge of the retail trade data.

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Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans

Harvard Business Review

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” In this case let’s make the business Dan Murphy’s, Australia’s largest liquor retailer with a national footprint. ” This is that company’s position on price.