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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 6 of 7

Strategy Driven

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The value generators in today’s economy are no longer factory workers but what we call coordination workers.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. We created an expanded vision of customer partnerships with big, market-driven outcomes that the company could rally behind.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 Even a simpler product like the SpinBrush, which entered the market priced at $5 each, required an upfront investment of $1.5 As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike.

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