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Smart Ways To Enhance the Efficiency of Your Business

Strategy Driven

For instance, you can find a company specializing in human resource management and payroll or outsource for QuickBooks bookkeeping services if no one in your team is savvy with accounting. You can also use software to host meetings, which saves a lot of time and money used for travel to the meeting venue.

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6 Ways to Build a Customer-Centric Culture

Harvard Business Review

But the CMO Council reports that “only 14 percent of marketers say that customer centricity is a hallmark of their companies, and only 11 percent believe their customers would agree with that characterization.” At Hootsuite, the social media management platform, marketing and human resources executives collaborate to do this.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

It also rests on aligned and fair incentives. Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. A marketing department, for example, may focus on the value proposition and pay insufficient heed to the other two propositions.