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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. Integration. into the core.

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Make Data Work Throughout Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. The data-driven have crafted the best strategies, uncovered wholly new markets, and kept operational costs low. The McKinsey report on Big Data suggests the U.S. The McKinsey report on Big Data suggests the U.S.

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Seven Ways CEOs and Investors Can Promote the Long Term

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models. They can signal to the market the types of investors they wish to own their shares.

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Institutions Are Key To Successful Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

Similarly, there are evident challenges in terms of market sophistication, with the country ranking 123rd in terms of ease of getting credit and general access to finance. For instance, the Global Innovation Index ranks the country just 117th in terms of ICT usage, with the general infrastructure ranked even worse.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 The EC’s pronouncements signal the beginnings of a “Digital Maastricht Treaty.”

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