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Key Considerations for Small Businesses: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

Implement customer relationship management (CRM) systems, point-of-sale (POS) solutions, and other digital tools to streamline processes and minimize errors. Compliance is vital to avoid legal complications, from obtaining business licenses to fulfilling tax obligations.

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Reverse Innovation in Tech Startups: The Story of Capillary Technologies

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, two bright, young entrepreneurs in India saw a key pain point with local retailers, who had no ability to engage with their existing customers. In fact, Pizza Hut leveraged Capillary''s predictive intelligence technology to drive purchases via targeted, real-time CRM campaigns across 17,000 unique customer clusters.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. Propagate intelligence and insights.

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. lean business model entrepreneur you: 1) Take a step back from any pre-defined ideas about a product or service and think about possible consumer pains or undiscovered needs and….