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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

These executives tell me frankly that they don’t have the revenue stream, the market share, or the margins their products and services deserve. Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. I call this obstacle The Disconnect.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

After years on the job, Boomers have developed deep, often intuitive knowledge about their company’s way of doing business and the relationships that have made them successful – and much of that could be lost as they walk out the door. Will younger workers have the knowledge and skills to run our organizations when they do? But your [.]

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 ), you’re ready to design and develop a program that retains Baby Boomers’ knowledge. Development: During development, you will create all the materials you’ll use for your program, which could include sign-in sheets, handouts, check lists, templates, and websites.

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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. With a data-driven business approach, HR can help the organization develop a workforce plan that makes optimum use of talent investments while at the same time effectively monitor end-to-end HR functions, including many other initiatives.

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Why Companies Are Advertising Their Master Brand

Harvard Business Review

Instead of promoting, for example, Hershey’s Syrup, chocolate bars, and Hershey’s kisses separately, the company is running an advertising campaign that unites all Hershey branded treats in a single commercial, emphasizing the corporate brand name over individual product lines. Customer retention. Increased flexibility.

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Don’t Move to Silicon Valley Without Preparation

Harvard Business Review

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. The company has 10,000 customers for their helpdesk software-as-a-service product, and thus far, $6 million in financing.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. For instance, you can calculate the value of turning a detractor into a promoter, or use differences in attrition rates to assess the expected lifetime values of different customer groups. Without such a link, it's hard to justify differences in compensation.