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The 200 mph Tune Up: 4 Critical Decision Filters For The Startup Leader

Terry Starbucker

These are four elements that represent the moving car – and thus, they are a mechanism to insure that the startup’s limited time and resources will be devoted to the right things, and at the right time. Revamp of the customer management (CRM) system. Employee retention. New advertising campaign.

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The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, they may involve taking inputs from emails or spreadsheets, processing the information by applying certain rules, and then entering the output into some other business systems, such as an ERP or a CRM. Take, for example, the car insurance industry. Companies can use these cognitive automation technologies in three ways.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Sales force complacency and high new salesperson turnover : At an insurance company, tenured salespeople had amassed large territories and now "owned" so many high-potential accounts that they didn't have enough time to provide adequate service and coverage to all of them. But the "salesperson owns customer" model is a double edged sword.

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