Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But thinking only about the costs involved in raising wages misses a key issue: pay hikes can also boost workplace productivity. In our own research, we’ve explored the impact that minimum wages can have on businesses, as well as the ways in which higher wages can motivate employees and spur productivity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. The call center logs customer complaints. Or as Intel Corp.’s

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Tsavo Neal

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Brian Dean, SEO genius and founder of Backlinko, released an amazing guide on how to rank at the top of Google for 2018. What’s working now is going to work in 2018. He said he did a quick Internet search for ‘ag equipment product design’ and we were in the top few results. The big takeaway?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 29, 2021

Several of my clients have internal struggles about how to internally see the future of the product. The managers think they need it “all” instead of using how little thinking to create a product the customers will love. Some possibilities: Assess the product/project risks to choose a lifecycle. What can you do?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). could become the world’s largest oil producer in 2018, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

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People Business Psychology

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Our founder, Jan de Jonge, will be speaking at the Bristol Business Expo, end of February 2018, on the key to successful leadership in business. Date: 28 February 2018, central Bristol, at the Bristol Business Expo. Time: 10.45am – 11.15am Venue: Seminar Theatre 2. See here for more info: www.bristolexpo.com See you there!

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MBO Partners

APRIL 2, 2018

Use these 8 apps to manage your time, achieve your goals, and master productivity.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Here’s to a prosperous 2018! Places all work products and recommendations in the context of the client’s environment. Knows details matter — Deliverables, work products, and communications are well formatted and flawless. First published January 12, 2015, it’s just as relevant today as it was then. Participation creates buy-in.)

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

Many of us are also becoming more demanding — we are less and less willing to settle for standardized, mass market products when it is far easier to seek out the niche products that are tailored to our specific needs and context. Internet users had almost doubled between 2014 and 2018, reaching almost one third of the user base.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

As of Aug 7 2018, Tesla’s market capitalization (USD 64.75B) exceeded that of BMW (USD 64.36B), despite BMW’s comparable production levels and deliveries of electric cars and significantly higher profits (net income of 10.3B for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). for BMW versus -2.7B

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Note the far-reaching production changes Jean-Dominique Senard has made at Michelin to empower and engage workers. ” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 16, 2017

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. Both companies were led by visionaries, both offer high-end versions of commodity products, and both enjoy fierce loyalty from customers.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The Economy in 2018. But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. In a world of tight labor markets, where recruiting and retention are at a premium, investing to make frontline employees more productive should be a priority.

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Harvard Business

JULY 16, 2019

In his case, “JUUL and the Vaping Revolution,” Harvard Business School professor Mike Toffel discusses the controversy surrounding the exponential growth of JUUL vaping products in 2018, in particular the success of its e-cigarettes with teenage high school students who had never smoked.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In 2017 and 2018 , Decathlon was ranked the #1 Great Place to Work in France. In 2018, Michelin was ranked the #1 America’s Best Large Employer. When Decathlon launched their workplace transformation, it had already been a leading privately held multinational with $9.11 billion in revenue in 2013. billion worldwide.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 10, 2025

9) Reflective practice might help us manage emotions For example, in a study involving more than 400 military cadets in Italy , researchers found that self-efficacy in managing negative emotions at work was an important resource for workers in managing job-related stress (Alessandri et al, 2018). Self-awareness REFERENCES Alessandri, G.,

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2018

Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018. These Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018 are based on the employee engagement surveys from nearly 50 Best Places to Work contests, this comprehensive report is the one and only of its kind, examining employee engagement and culture trends at America’s top workplaces.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. “It forces structural and systemic change to accommodate different ways of working and different ways of being ‘available’ and productive,” says Hisgrove. Alison Bukholtz. employers are offering some form of flex option. Loneliness.

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IMC USA

JUNE 5, 2018

June 5, 2018 — The Institute of Management Consultants USA (IMC USA, www.imcusa.org ) announces the election of Juan A. CMC is a consultant with The Dallas Marketing Group and specializes in marketing, market research, strategic planning, sales, operations and product development in tech, medical devices and health care. Egan, Ph.D.,

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

Determining appropriate product pricing (e.g. Prioritizing new product development efforts. Choosing specific product features. This form of segmentation is widely used since specific products often cater to individual needs relating to at least one demographic element. brick-and-mortar vs online).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A new study out by Spencer Stuart shows an insane number of chief marketing officers who’ve been fired during 2018. Product marketing: For this, the CMO pulls all of the analysis and insights from all of the customer-facing resources of the organization to support and co-design specific solutions with the product organization.

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

First, I have been talking for the last few episodes about the importance of not just identifying your ideal client but getting in their hearts and minds so you can position yourself, products/services, and copy to connect with them. So, I thought, why not bring on some of my former clients so you can hear for yourself?

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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

And another company actually sends its customers videos of the quality inspector with the customer’s product as it goes through final inspection. Many of them aren’t elegant, but the passion eclipses the production values. And wait till next year—the 2018 conference will be live streamed. Bias for action.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Key Resources are the assets that are required to deliver the CVP to the customer at a profit, meaning the people, technology, products, facilities, equipment, channels, and brand. Any consumer or service company that doesn’t have a digital component certainly should; this is 2018, after all.

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Consulthon

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The service was launched in the end of 2018. I am a business owner of a tailor made clothing brand in Bulgaria. One of the most important tasks in front of me was the assessment of the market poten.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

One of my favorite business school professors used to say, “If you want to build a great company, your product has got to be ten times better than the competition.” If you want to build a great company in 2018, your customer experience has to be ten times lighter than the competition. Human touches entail friction.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. The human dimension ” taking place on November 29 & 30, 2018 in Vienna, Austria. ” Soon after, Peter Drucker predicted the End of Economic Man.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR. Image: Pexels.

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On the Brink Podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2022

That's the premise of Marcella Bremer's book, Deve loping a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive , which focuses on helping organizations achieve more effective, productive cultures.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. As you succeed, these results will begin to build upon one another—you’ll oversee a new product that becomes a runaway hit or take charge of a transformational initiative that redefines a major market.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 2, 2018

now in 2018 we are going to see even more ‘outing’ of inappropriate, inexcusable and intolerant attitudes and behaviors. What we are going to see for trends in 2018 has a theme which is ‘convergence’ the melding of science/health/technology at a higher level than we have seen as a human collective.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2018

In research to be published by the Journal of Consumer Research in October 2018, we found that a moderately positive review is even more persuasive when the default review selection is extremely positive. We also found that the moderately positive reviews were not just seen as more persuasive, but as more helpful.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services. Some companies are aggressively testing both.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. At the same time, multinationals are feeling pressured by the state to demonstrate their commitment to the market by further localizing their supply chain, labor, brand, and production.

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Brimstone Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2021

A 2018 study found that 55% of Americans reported not using all of their paid vacation time – a 9% increase over 2017. What’s more, taking time off has a positive impact on productivity, performance, intrinsic motivation , and creativity. (A In our discussion, Amy shared that she had not taken a vacation in over two years.

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