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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses

Strategy Driven

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Lastly, if you don’t have a capabilities brochure already, develop one now. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

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The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made

Harvard Business Review

While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps. He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I They said, ''This kid is a fad.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.

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How to Write a Resume That Stands Out

Harvard Business Review

. “You have to think carefully about what to say and how to say it so the hiring manager thinks, ‘This person can do what I need done,’” she says. Heifetz agrees: “The hiring manager is the buyer, you’re the product, and you need to give him a reason to buy.” Open strong. Get the order right.

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The Big Picture of Business: Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.

Strategy Driven

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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