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How Can You Manage Your Small Business Finances More Effectively Using Loans?

Strategy Driven

Using Loans to Automate Systems Automating repetitive operations can be important for saving you both time and money. They are also far better due to the very important fact that you are already familiar with your staff, and they already know the business – even at this early stage.

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Businesses Don’t Fail – Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

Leaders who fail to demonstrate a constancy of character won’t create trust, won’t engender confidence and won’t create loyalty. The amount of capital required to run a business is based upon how the business is operated. Leaders who can’t stay in front of the market tend to get run over by it.

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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. I’m always on the lookout for new practitioners entering the market where we have practice areas, disruptive technology, or changes in the landscape that could disintermediate certain aspects of the market.

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward.

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Meet Your Company's New Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

Customer intelligence is at an organizational inflection point. This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. The ability to speak "IT."

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Data Analysis Should Be a Social Event

Harvard Business Review

How can I help marketing retain more customers? What kinds of products or types of communication are going to increase customer loyalty? This approach works well in business. Like many telcos this company is trying to woo customers through customized marketing communications and offers.

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Retailers Turn to "Soft Surveillance" to Fight Customer Anonymity

Harvard Business Review

For example, Tesco uses vast data sets culled from decades of customers' Clubcard use to make pricing decisions, influence shoppers to buy specific items, and build loyalty. Can anything be learned about shoppers who don't carry loyalty cards? But that approach doesn't tell a firm about a new or transient customer. Casual browsers?

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