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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

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We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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The Twelve Sales Metrics that Matter Most

Harvard Business Review

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Telecommunications 66%. Average New Deal Size.

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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S. At the same time, several technology platforms that do not collect or share personal data have emerged since mid-2013.

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Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination

Harvard Business Review

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report.

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Ten Reasons Salespeople Lose Deals

Harvard Business Review

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. Product Commoditization.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations.