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A comprehensive breakdown of improving your automotive business

Strategy Driven

In today’s world, automotive businesses are facing many challenges. From increasing competition to changing consumer preferences, the automotive industry is rapidly evolving, and staying ahead of the curve is essential for success. Tip #1: Leverage Online Presence to Reach More Customers. Tip #2: Work with suppliers.

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Guidelines for Fast Lean Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Just observing a plant's operations can deliver "aha" moments that lead to real insight and simple fixes. For instance, at an industrial products manufacturer with a one-operator-per-line set up, we noticed that the line operators were walking around a lot and doing things that seemed to add little value.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business Review

Avoid specializing by customer type (SaaS vs. Ecommerce vs. Automotive) or specific types of problems–your go-to-market is still changing, continue optimizing for flexibility. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time. implementation, support). What not to do. What not to do.

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Technologies Your Business Really Can’t Afford Not To Embrace

Strategy Driven

Whatever the nature of your business, there are certain technologies that are slowly and quietly but consistently revolutionizing the ways in which businesses operate and the tech savvy business can either get in on the ground floor or face the combined impediments of increased running costs, lower output and reduced productivity.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at a tipping point, leading a watershed shift to digital intelligence by discovering previously unseen patterns, drawing new inferences, and identifying new relationships from vast amounts of data. “The last 10 years have been about building a world that is mobile-first. Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, October 2016.