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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

When tracking trends for future growth opportunities, for example, invest real money (2 to 4 percent of the sales budget is good) to develop analytical tools and teams that monitor trends such as demographic shifts, regulations, and new technologies. Only the CEO can push this kind of coordination through.

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The Trade War with China Could Accelerate 3-D Printing in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

As companies rethink their supply chains, they ought to seriously consider embracing a new manufacturing technology that’s now ready for prime time: 3-D printing. No longer relegated to trinkets and prototyping, 3-D printing, which is also called additive manufacturing , is now moving into mass production.