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Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations

Strategy Driven

Going paperless is a great way to streamline office operations – and help save the planet by reducing paper. In 2005, he sold the company to Thomson Fast-Tax and then began to focus his attention on paperless office software. You just finished reading Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations !

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The Case for Crowdsourcing Projects as a Business

Strategy Driven

The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole? A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Get a fresh perspective.

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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. Blue Cross wrote that TheraMatrix’s operations were “competitive and damaging not only to BCBSM’s financial interests, but also to its business relationships.&# A case in point is TheraMatrix, a small Michigan company.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

I’ll take that as a sign investors aren’t buying the old scare tactic that federal climate action is bad for the economy. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. California is also delivering some big results. The program delivered $1.6

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, since 2005, the importance of meaningfulness in driving job selection has grown steadily. Simple tactics can amplify social connection and shared purpose. Often, the people “in the trenches” (retail floor clerks, assembly line workers) have valuable insights into how operations can be improved.

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Before You Make a Tough Decision, Imagine How You’ll Have to Sell It

Harvard Business Review

Like many other Western companies, Yahoo began building major operations in China. Then, in 2005, a dissident journalist named Shi Tao used his Yahoo email account to send a document to Western reporters that described Chinese government restrictions on media coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business Review

Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. ” The intention was right, but there was no operational impact. Back in the 1990s, sales reps had a lot of information, while customers had relatively little. Sales reps leveraged that information gap to create a lot of trust. I made a couple mistakes along the way.

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