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Important Changes That Improve The Efficiency Of Your Shipping Operation

Strategy Driven

As a smaller company, you’re not necessarily going to be able to match that speed and efficiency, but you do need to make sure that you’re getting products out to people in a timely manner. As well as speed, you also need to consider the cost of your shipping operation. These are some of the best ways to do it. Barcode Scanners.

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5 Why's and a How

CEO Blog

At one of the boards I am on, discussion turned to efficiency. It is a great and fairly simple way to figure out where companies can gain efficiencies. Eliminating these points and figuring out how to make them smoother can add efficiency. Often efficiency is limited by IT. I suggested the 5 Why''s process.

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How to Grow Your Ecommerce Startup in Year One

Strategy Driven

In this article, you’ll learn about your priorities in year one in order to make a sustainable and profitable business that scales effectively into your second year of operations. Operational Efficiency. The only physical part of your ecommerce business is delivering parcels to customers. It’s really that simple.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

.” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Volkswagen and the End of Corporate Spin

Harvard Business Review

Other managers see parcelling out information on a need-to-know basis as an operational maxim, important to maintaining efficiency. Therefore, leaders and managers must become compelling communicators, operating according to the following general guidelines: Straight and soon. Flood the zone.

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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

For the sake of efficiency, we tend to make new decisions based upon old frames, memories, or associations. Steve Jobs, a regular meditator, made use of mindfulness practice to challenge operating assumptions at Apple and to enhance creative insight in planning. It can’t hurt.

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At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow. That’s impressive.

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