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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. Product Intelligence: What Is It?

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. It’s helpful to first understand the various stages involved in improving business processes. In the U.S., Recall how the U.S. Handoff errors would result.

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The Secrets Of Great Scaling

Strategy Driven

Here’s a guide to managing a rapidly expanding business…. You should be placing a strong emphasis on customer satisfaction no matter what stage your business is in, but it’s especially important to make sure you’re not getting distracted by scalability. Think About Finances. Have a Medium-Term Goal, and Stick to It.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Why Lawyers Make Good Early-Stage Startup Hires

Harvard Business Review

For icons such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, so goes the lore, finishing a bachelor’s degree would have only stifled the creativity that fueled their companies to stratospheric success. Successfully commercializing a product depends upon clean and clear lines of intellectual property ownership.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

Most customers are interested in your content first (how much you know about their pain points) before purchasing your products or services. They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales.

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