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Recession Survival Tips: How Your Business Can Come Out Stronger

Strategy Driven

First, you should call your landlord and negotiate rent terms. However, ensure that any larger incentives are not offered to every customer. Retain Existing Customers. Simply put, retaining customers is easier and cheaper than finding new ones. If you offer low prices, communicate regularly with existing customers.

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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

telling a manager to maximize current profits, market share, future growth profits, and anything else one pleases will leave that manager with no way to make a reasoned decision. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

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Online Marketplace: New challenges to overcome

Strategy Driven

They are driving customers towards the business from all possible sides and earning customer loyalty by offering everything at one place on any channel. Data security : When you are managing a massive marketplace with so many merchants, customers, and sensitive information onboard, there is a high risk of data security.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business Review

Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. See More Videos > See More Videos > Machine learning is enabling companies to expand their top-line growth and optimize processes while improving employee engagement and increasing customer satisfaction. consumers already prefer chatbots to humans for customer relations.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. The company's managers felt helpless and frustrated.

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Online Marketplace: New challenges to overcome

Strategy Driven

They are driving customers towards the business from all possible sides and earning customer loyalty by offering everything at one place on any channel. Data security : When you are managing a massive marketplace with so many merchants, customers, and sensitive information onboard, there is a high risk of data security.

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How the Best CEOs Get the Important Work Done

Harvard Business Review

But what does it mean, in terms of daily tasks, to be the company’s top “executer?” CEOs can waste a massive amount of time simply tending to the egos and petty squabbles of professional managers―time better spent connecting directly with the front line and solving their needs.

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