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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. Engineered to Win.

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Back to Basics: Interviewing for Your Next Sales Position

Strategy Driven

As a base minimum you should have an understanding of the market they service, the products they sell and who they sell to? Even to the point of doing a SWOT analysis on them – this will clarify, in your mind, how the industry works, who the main players are etc. It will also lend ‘weight’ to your interview answers.

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New Hire Onboarding Success with a SWOT Analysis

ExactHire - Leadership

The purpose of a SWOT analysis in the business planning process is to make sure you’ve identified all the possible strengths , weaknesses , opportunities and threats to your business. Some aspects of the SWOT analysis are designed to act upon. Extremely savvy job seekers will do their own SWOT analysis on the company before joining.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting People

Harvard Business Review

For example, workplace accidents are generally handled by human resources, operational problems are handled by operations, IT difficulties and disruptions by IT, etc. For the statistically challenged, the simplest metric is a SWOT-inspired scorecard that "rates" the losses in two dimensions: likelihood of occurrence and cost.

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The CEO as Chief Brand Custodian | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. And, the SWOT analysis is not the way to do it. Human Resources.

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