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Walmart Won’t Stay on Top If Its Strategy Is “Copy Amazon”

Harvard Business Review

” In Amazon’s growing brick-and-mortar bookstores, Prime members can buy books for discounted prices, while others have to pay the cover price. In comparison, Walmart.com sells “only” 15 million items — and just 2 million of them are available for the free two-day shipping.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. This requires many years of commitment to learning, compounded by the continuous development of knowledge. Human Resources Oversees Training. Personal Development. Teaching-Training.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Business development. Human resources management. Don’t base the business on ‘apples to oranges’ comparisons. In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Premium pricing for preferred goods/services. This is not something that can be conducted alone by internal human resources departments. It will provide comparisons between the realities and perceptions that are held. The challenge is to discover what mix of price and quality the customer wants and to deliver it.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Given their capabilities, these entrepreneurs take a “do-it-yourself” approach and develop software to support organizational needs. The magic building blocks that Airbnb adds are tools for matching, spot pricing, and analyzing the data it collects on all participants in its ecosystem.

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AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants

Harvard Business Review

But AI can also help support more complex decisions in key areas such as human resources, budgeting, marketing, capital allocation and even corporate strategy — long the bastion of bespoke consulting firms such as McKinsey, Bain, and BCG, and the major marketing agencies. Almost all that advice is high cost and human-based.