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Four Things Your Business Should Outsource Now

Strategy Driven

You can hire people in on a project by project basis and have the experts holding your team together to get through it. Finance & Payroll. You need to keep up with the changing and complex tax laws , and you can only do that if you have an expert in finance working with you.

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Corporations: Donate Your Skills, Not Just Your Money

Harvard Business Review

We set people up to use their area of expertise, be it strategy, accounting, operations, technology, finance, or human resources. In fact, 76% of staff on pro bono projects stated that they gained significant, job-relevant skills. At Deloitte, we treat these projects exactly the same as a paid client engagement.

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

Harvard Business Review

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Only the largest of enterprises could afford the best technologies, and even for those with the largest bank accounts, IT strategies were limited to basics like CRM , ERP , or email. And given the complexities involved in building up competitive IT weaponry, businesses won by out-spending and out-resourcing their opponents.

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Don’t Turn Your Sales Team Loose Without a Strategy

Harvard Business Review

At that point, Alphatech’s management reassessed its strategy and sales approach. As a result, false positives and negative-value prospects littered the sales funnel, and about 75% of margins came from just 25% of the deals—almost all of which were managed-services contracts versus one-off “project” installations.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. A start-up might need an angel investor who believes in the project to provide initial equity.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

It also has partnered with nationally recognized organizations such as the Reach Out and Read program to improve childhood language and literacy, and Health Leads (formerly Project HEALTH), for assessing families’ additional needs and connecting them to community resources. Continuous and coordinated. pediatric primary care remain.