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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

Great Leadership By Dan

But you need the right culture for this approach, the right metrics (hint, the main KPI isn’t topline revenue) and the right resources. But there may be other attributes—they use your products regularly and well. For example, they might refer in new customers, or speak at your events, or provide feedback on product direction.

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Balancing Profit and Purpose with Your Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products. Its success offers other legacy companies lessons in how to navigate this process.

KPI 27
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The Importance of Business Intelligence Software and Why It’s Integral for Business Success

Strategy Driven

How quickly and accurately a company responds in this technology-driven competitive market is the main difference between success and failure. Business intelligence technologies have several functions that improve their performance, and one of them is reporting. The Main Benefits of Business Intelligence Software.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

KPI 9
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AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

come from 20% of causes (products, employees, etc). Novel workplace analytics, for example, mean more organizations can more readily identify the 20% of employees contributing 80% of value to a product, process, or user experience. For them, KPI stands for “key Pareto information,” not just “key performance indicator.”

KPI 8
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Why User Experience Always Has to Come First

Harvard Business Review

This highlights a fundamental dynamic that’s transforming digital product and services worldwide: Dynamic pricing is being superceded by dynamic opportunism. But technology makes it easier and simpler for more organizations to try to get away with profitable but irritating little nicks and customer scrapes.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI). Price leadership: A no-frills airline constantly advertises the lowest fares on any route served.