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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

It increases productivity Capacity planning software helps ensure that the right resources are available at the right time and aren’t overloaded. This helps maintain high productivity levels. The solution is suitable for advertising and digital agencies, consultancies, software and technology teams.

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WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton launched their company with a straightforward proposition: They would create a messaging app that people wanted to use without bombarding them with advertising. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. Your data isn’t even in the picture. The importance of scalability.

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5 Behaviors of Leaders Who Embrace Change

Harvard Business

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Know the big picture.

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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business

They pursued a variety of tactics before the recession that were designed to fortify the firm when the downturn hit – moves both within sales and beyond like adding a low-cost channel to serve small accounts or simplifying the product assortment. Consider the case of an online advertising and software company serving car dealers.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Make Work Meaningful for Your Freelancers, Too

Harvard Business

We answered this question by interviewing freelancers in a wide range of industries — from tech to advertising. And what we found in our interviews was an interesting reinforcement of our prior work on employer branding and agile talent. Have you stopped to consider how they’re finding meaning in their careers?

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