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10 Tips For Successfully Opening And Managing Your Retail Store

Strategy Driven

You can see that America had 442,000+ retail stores back in 2019, and these numbers are bound to increase. So, here are a few tips to help you open and manage your retail store in this ever-changing economy: 1. Attract Potential Customers A clean, clutter-free, and well-stocked retail store will attract more customers.

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This isn't your parent's workweek anymore.

Rich Gee Group

As new generations jump onto the work bus and technology continues to improve, you are going to feel a sea-change from work-harder to work-smarter. They will be forced to streamline, delegate, and retire unnecessary activities and focus on what really moves the company forward. This can apply to retail, manufacturing, service, etc.

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The 3 Most Important Responsibilities of a Manager

Strategy Driven

This can include holding competitions and promotional deals if you have a retail store, or utilizing social media and SEO to improve your digital marketing technique. You can also make the business more efficient by replacing old machinery and equipment and by looking into the best modern machinery and technological office supplies.

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Why Most Change Programs and Improvement Initiatives Fail

The Practical Leader

Partial and Piecemeal Programs The senior management team of a large national retailer, enjoying a dominant position in its markets, realized they had to make several radical changes to reduce costs while boosting service levels. They seem to live by the French Cavalry’s motto, “When in doubt, gallop.”

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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How Hard Do Company Founders Really Work?

Harvard Business Review

Of course, a CEO following that approach is less likely to delegate and more likely to be entrenched in work all the time. Over eighty founders or co-founders of health care, technology, social media, retail, and financial services firms responded. So how much devotion to the job is “normal” for a founder?

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Charismatic CEOs enjoy leading and inspiring people, so they don’t like delegating critical business decisions to smart algorithms. Computational autonomy requires that C-suites revisit the hows and whys of delegation. At one American retailer, an autonomous ensemble of algorithms replaced the entire merchandising department.