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Eforms 101: Everything You Need To Know About eForms

Strategy Driven

If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Sales orders can be distributed to the manager for approval, while the finance manager can promptly receive credit applications to review and approve.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. Are there operations you would shed? Threat analysis.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. CMOs need to show the ROI of every pound spent on marketing and how it delivers against the bottom line.”. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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How to Take a Social Venture to Scale

Harvard Business Review

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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