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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

The travel platform had been hit hard during the COVID-19 pandemic as the travel bans cut sharply into their business earnings, but the company made a clean comeback soon after, with their annual revenue for 2023 growing to $12.8 billion USD, marking a 10 percent year-over-year growth.

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Why Are Video Devices Becoming More Popular?

Strategy Driven

Video is transforming business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) communications. The critical technologies making this possible are lowering latency and enabling remote access to video content. They reduce travel costs, enable remote work and learning, and make meetings more personal.

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What's The Future Of Business By Brian Solis

Eric Jacobson

WTF is incredibly relevant and timely because Solis explores the non-stop transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Solis : Most businesses are merely reacting to the rapid evolution of technology rather than trying to create engaged customer experiences throughout the life-cycle.

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Despite Dire Predictions, Salespeople Aren’t Going Away

Harvard Business Review

“Things were different once upon a time before the railroads turned farms into cities… The traveling [sales]man is a middleman and the evolution of business is gradually eliminating the middle man.” Forrester Research predicted that one million B2B salespeople will become obsolete by 2020, lost to e-commerce.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business Review

And they can be very expensive — in addition to overseas business travel, local distribution partner relationships require significant up-front investment to get started and to manage effectively. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

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. Often, the best way for B2B companies to satisfy the multitude of business customers is to focus on the needs of their customers' customers.

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Sometimes “Small Data” Is Enough to Create Smart Products

Harvard Business Review

AI is a huge set of technologies, each with a specific, fine-tuned purpose. With the help of machines and advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology , the USPS can now read and process 98% of all hand-addressed mail and 99.5% By linking this technology with a relatively small and finite data set of U.S.

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