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How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities

N2Growth Blog

Customer Loyalty: Is the firm preferred among its customers? How easy is it for a customer to shift to another provider? Can assets be turned quickly to meet short-term obligations? Technology. IT Responsiveness: How quickly can technological solutions be fielded to meet business demands?

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Useful Tips To Help Your Business Run Smoothly Post-Pandemic

Strategy Driven

If they haven’t, well, maybe you should consider freshen up your look, style and technology. Even if you decide you want to stick with what you know and what you’ve got, you can’t go wrong implementing a computerised maintenance management system, or CMMS for short. Rebuilding Customer Loyalty. Getting Back To Normal.

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Global sales needs are also local sales needs

Strategy Driven

How is the role of the salesperson changing, and what’s changing in terms of which sales channels are being used right now? Is it true that many leaders are not keeping up with changes in the market, changes in technology, and changes in human capital needs? How about sales channels? as ways of selling. How does that work best?

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Facebook, BlackRock, and the Case for Purpose-Driven Companies

Harvard Business Review

While the long-term consequences for users, journalists, media, friendships, Facebook itself, and the future of democracy (see: fake news) are uncertain and hard to judge, there are some lessons we can draw from the announcement. Purpose-driven companies have been shown to outperform their peers over the long term. Short-termism.

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Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can

Harvard Business Review

In the world of technology: the more of something you make, the more valuable it can become. This has led to high levels of AWS specific investment from innovators like CloudHealth Technologies, Qubole, Mapbox, and the like. How can you continuously defer short term profitability to grow your network effect?

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. On the other hand, a highly differentiated offering is no longer a guarantee of long-term value creation. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant. Leadership is changing — fast.

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Automation Will Make Us Rethink What a “Job” Really Is

Harvard Business Review

How should companies rethink the value of a job, in terms of increased performance through machine intelligence? For instance, it takes 20 years to move from the “right seat” of an Embraer 175 doing a short haul flight to the “left seat” of a Boeing 747 going across the Pacific Ocean. Insight Center.