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Four Ways to Scale Digital Capabilities on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

But these organizations still face a daunting challenge in distributing digital expertise: how do you develop digital competency more broadly across a large organization? Make sure your guidelines align to business objectives. Bringing distributed groups up to speed with digital strategy puts you in the guidelines business.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

companies spend over $900 billion on their sales forces, which is three times more than they spend on all ad media. Simultaneously, sales managers went through a series of development sessions to develop their coaching skills. Sales is, by far, the most expensive part of strategy execution for most firms.

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. The Dreamforce 2014 homepage had a calculator that provided users with the projected ROI that their respective companies would gain from their presence at the conference.

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