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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

What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? He has more than 30 years of experience in corporate sales and marketing, including years in book publishing business, working for IDG Books, publishers of the … For Dummies computer and general reference books.

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

Strategy Driven

Quantitative measures, such as attrition data, employee performance data, and program attendance rates give you the numbers you may need to defend your program to executives. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. To keep your program humming along, look at it from many different angles at regular intervals.

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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. Make models of which candidates are probably going to experience a drop in engagement and productivity. Workforce Productivity. HR can utilize analytics to identify key factors that directly affect productivity (i.e.

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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. One direct marketer learned this the hard way. Organized learning.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. But that’s just not true.

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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.