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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Success via competitiveness has many dimensions: Production efficiency became America’s focus by the 1950′s. Faster innovation. Total Quality Management is customer-focused and strategy-directed. The real victim of America’s late entry into the quality process was every employee whose livelihood was endangered.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

The first type is known as tactical performance. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Overdoing Tactical Performance.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Here is my own business success checklist that will help you optimize your activities for a more efficient and purpose oriented endeavor.

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5 Tips to Improve Sales Team Performance

Strategy Driven

Lastly, having an accurate sales forecast can help you make sound business decisions in terms of budgeting, risk management, and planning. Aside from innovative sales tools, there are also other things that can help make the sales team’s work much easier and faster. One of them is the so-called sales playbook.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. So how are leading-edge companies evaluating the benefits and risks of rapidly evolving AI crime-fighting and risk management?

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

I’ll take that as a sign investors aren’t buying the old scare tactic that federal climate action is bad for the economy. The Golden State’s energy efficiency programs have saved its residents $74 billion over the last few decades and avoided the construction of more than 30 power plants. California is also delivering some big results.

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It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

Despite prominent calls to action, and despite digital’s ubiquity in the press and in many discussions of strategy and tactics across organizational functions, it appears that boards are still not seeing the value of digital. Can we use the possibilities of these new digital technologies to drive innovation?