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Reinvent Your Company by Reassessing Its Strengths

Harvard Business Review

If a company’s leaders understand the capabilities that define its unique identity, they’ll make smarter decisions about what businesses to buy and sell, what markets to enter and exit, what to prioritize in new product development, how to manage costs, where to invest, and all the other choices that are inherent in sustaining a great company.

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Is Your Social Venture Really Worth Scaling?

Harvard Business Review

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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The Social Side of Auto-Analytics

Harvard Business Review

It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. We can take some guidance from the health-care field. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. It's an emerging trend.

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Get Your Team to Work Acoss Organizational Boundaries

Harvard Business Review

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Yet teamwork across organizational boundaries is unnatural. You need a way to maintain the extended team identity.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. In modern times, alternative health care concepts and practitioners have been embraced by all sectors of society. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

Nike could provide you with its traditional sports gear, but in addition it could include a training program, a dietary plan, a coach, and a monitoring system to help you achieve your dream. Philips has experienced this even with its high-end health care products. It now has around 10,000 operating projects. Sales force.