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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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What Digital Advertising Gets Wrong

Harvard Business

Too often, ads end up targeting people who would buy the product anyway.

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Are Collaboration Tools Overwhelming Your Team?

Harvard Business

Today’s workers feel numbed by a fragmented, unpredictable, and overwhelming collection of collaboration tools — the very things advertised to boost their productivity. They know they’re overloaded and feel exhausted but believe there is little or nothing they can do to slow the onslaught of communication.

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Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

Harvard Business

Much of the advertising purchased during the Super Bowl is about selling corporate brands rather than products. Harvard Business School professor Shelle Santana discusses her case, “Super Bowl Storytelling,” (co-author: Jill Avery), regarding the art of storytelling on the world’s biggest television stage.

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Chinese and American Consumers Have Different Ideas About What Makes a Product Creative

Harvard Business

When consumers believe a product is creative, they are more likely to like , share , and buy it. Jeffrey Loewenstein and I recently published a study examining the features that indicate whether a product is creative in the world’s two largest economies, the U.S. The unusualness of a product or process. and China.

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6 Ways to Move Beyond the Commodity Mindset

Consulting Success

The store specializes in and sells products made from oranges – especially juices. Essentially, however, it’s high-quality orange juice for $25 when the supermarket down the street sells a larger quantity of a similar product for $5 or less. The company developed a solid product and charged a premium for it. You’re Not The Same.

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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.