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3 Resource Management Tools for Streamlining Efficiency

Strategy Driven

Addressing new problems during the pandemic makes resource management for your business’ usual operations difficult. Managing inventory, planning, sales, and human resources as the head of a small business is a lot to ask of one or a few people. Plenty of top resource planning apps work well for businesses in all industries.

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The Best Sales Leaders Are Trend Hunters

Harvard Business Review

In our international operations, we introduced a three-year sales planning process to get beyond the 90-day mentality of 'How will I make my number this quarter?'" Here's how the best trend hunters operate. Tie insights to operations. Others embed forward-looking analysis into annual capacity planning.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business Review

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Who among your current sales team has this ability?

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