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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

It could involve investing in new product development, exploring new market segments, or adopting innovative marketing strategies. By being proactive and responsive to market trends and consumer behavior, businesses can better meet customer needs and seize new opportunities.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Most companies have been slow to react.

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You've Been Reorganized. Now What?

Harvard Business Review

There is no way to simultaneously align the organization's structure with products, functions, geographies, market segments, customers, capabilities, personalities, and technologies (to name a few). Until they figured out what they had to stop doing, the marketing team was perceived to be resistant and ineffective.

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Make Your Competition Work for You

Harvard Business Review

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. Possible investor.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.