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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

What Is Data-Driven Insights and Digital Asset Management? Companies develop these insights from basic information and any discernible patterns or trends. The data can include statistics, marketing analysis, consumer information, or any collected facts and data that will help influence strategy to reach your goals.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Growing and Developing an Effective Team. Describing the legal structure of your business and portraying an organizational chart for everyone. Purchasing an Insurance Policy.

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People Quit Their Boss… Not the Company!

Strategy Driven

Concentrate on your sphere of influence regardless of size and create your own little island within the organization by controlling what you can control… which is A LOT. Your attitude… develop an upbeat attitude. He has trained hundreds of first-line supervisors, managers, and executives during his career. Be genuine.

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One Big Reason There’s So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks

Harvard Business Review

Basically, a handful of asset management firms have become the most powerful shareholders of the nation’s largest banks. This collective flood of individual investment has turned asset management companies into ginormous shareholders. BlackRock alone manages about $4.7 trillion in assets.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business Review

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. A discount grocer, by contrast, typically uses private-label goods to influence price perceptions. The next task is to identify the factors that have the strongest influence on perception.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.