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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

How to survive and thrive in a down economy. How will this economic crisis play out? We just need to understand how to best deploy, grow or manage them. Companies that can understand how individual processes are adding or destroying value can turn red balance sheets back into black.

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Big Data's Human Component

Harvard Business Review

We forget that it is not about the data; it is about our customers having a deep, engaging, insightful, meaningful conversation with us — if we only learn how to listen. Here's how to put that insight into practice: Understand that expertise is more important than the tool. Understand how to present information.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

First recognize if the product is solving a real problem and people will buy it, then figure out how to scale production and distribution in situations of success. Though there are multiple types of prediction, the gold standard is the prediction of precise outcomes.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

All businesses seek to control costs; they don’t need an economist to tell them why it’s important or how to do it. That way, travelers took their offers much more seriously than if they simply could “name their price” without any purchase obligation. Economics and logistics. But there are some very important exceptions.