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How to Start a Heavy-Duty Parts Business in 5 Simple Steps

Strategy Driven

You will want to hunt for the best and most skilled individuals who can handle each of the positions that will be part of your overall business model. In other words, you’ll need to decide whether you’re operating a B2B or B2C company. B2B means business to business, while B2C means business to consumer.

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10 Lessons That All New Business Owners Must Heed In The Modern Era

Strategy Driven

The thought of being in control of the entire business model may seem like perfection. Your Approach To Operations Is Key. Both B2B and B2C customers are now invested in brands like never before, they want to work with companies that they can relate to. You Can’t Go It Alone.

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How B2B Companies Can Grow with Ecosystem Orchestration - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business Review

B2B companies are struggling with a loss of control over the customer experience (CX) today. With their future growth prospects at stake, B2B executives must determine how to improve CX—while ceding more of the experience to their partners. B2B leaders know that customer experience is the gateway to growth.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

Much of the conversation about customer-centricity focuses on business-to-consumer (B2C) firms. And while these companies were the first to acknowledge the business benefits of delivering a great customer experience, business-to-business (B2B) organizations are increasingly getting in on the game.

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How Industrial Systems Are Turning into Digital Services

Harvard Business Review

Railway operators and wind farm owners were among the first to deploy the concept. This has led to new business models, putting SKF squarely in a position to provide “knowledge as a service” (KaaS), as more than a half million machines are already connected to the SKF Cloud.

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The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology

Harvard Business Review

applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. Their developers focus on meeting operational and environmental requirements, caring little about the physical appearance or user experience of a dashboard- or engine-compartment-mounted device that monitors vehicle data. Overwhelmingly, those IoT 1.0

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What Western Companies Need to Know About Partnering with Startups in India and China

Harvard Business Review

The upshot is that Western multinationals operating in China are competing not only with each other but, more significantly, also local rivals and must differentiate themselves more forcefully than is necessary in India by, for instance, playing to their strengths in B2B rather than B2C business models.