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Customer Experience: The New Battlefield for Business

Joseph Lalonde

This can be accomplished through market research and data analysis. There are several ways to collect customer data, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and website/app analytics. 2) Set achievable goals: . It’s important to set realistic goals for your customer experience improvement efforts.

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The Payday Puzzle: Solving Employee Compensation and Benefits

HR Digest

A market analysis involves comparing an organization’s compensation packages with those of similar organizations in the same industry and geographic region. Performance-based incentives should be tied to measurable goals and objectives that embrace employee recognition, so employees know what they need to do to earn them.

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Key Elements for a Successful Employee Training Program

HR Digest

This process serves as the foundation for a successful program, ensuring that the training aligns with the goals and objectives of the business. Identifying Business Goals: Setting the Course Every successful training program starts with a clear understanding of the business goals it aims to support.

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The Hidden Power of Mundane Ideas

Harvard Business Review

The same holds true for consumer focus groups, innovation contests, and more recently the use of social media sites to solicit feedback from consumers. A large consumer electronics manufacturer we recently worked with had launched a new hybrid TV and internet technology focused on teens. They'd certainly done their homework.

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It’s a Match! How to Create an Equitable Compensation System That Fits You

HR Digest

Pay Equity Analysis: How to Create Fair Salary Structures With the number of tools and data collection resources available to us, it’s impossible for companies to claim ignorance of the pay disparity and the struggles personally encountered by their employees. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail.

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Why We Need to Outsmart Our Smart Devices

Harvard Business Review

As much as we’d like to think that all the devices in our cars (and the cars around us) are talking to one another just to keep us safe, they’re also talking about us — and transmitting our data for analysis. Of course, when devices track our behavior on the job, we’re keenly aware of being watched and evaluated.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn? They confidently seize opportunities.