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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

The tool is tailored for professional services organizations (marketing, advertising, creative agencies, software, IT services, and management consulting sectors). The solution is suitable for advertising and digital agencies, consultancies, software and technology teams.

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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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How One CMO Revamped Her Role

Harvard Business

” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business

What proves trickier is to yank lackluster offerings with sales that mildly disappoint — products that perform poorly but are not clear-cut cases for withdrawal. Instead they would prefer to maintain the products and make adjustments to promotions or advertising. Here centralization plays a role too, as our research points out.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines. To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture.

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There Are 4 Futures for CMOs (Some Better Than Others)

Harvard Business

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities. ” 4.

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Consultant Marketing Brand Disruption

Jerry Fletcher

Innovation, agility and the ability to think laterally can overcome the economy, the pandemic and the general funk in the populace at the moment. One battery sale worth under a hundred dollars led to purchases in excess of over $5000. Disruption. Either gets attention in and of itself. Together they become hard to look away from.