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Tech-Driven Success: Business Lessons from Elite Athletes

Chad Barr

It highlighted how sport climbing athletes are using motion-sensor suits to gather crucial data, allowing them to tailor their training with precision. By tracking sales trends, customer behaviors, and employee productivity, companies can pinpoint areas for improvement. ” This applies to business as much as it does to sports.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? a) Agility. Learning from Big Companies.

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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. At Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lauren Hobart was promoted from CMO to President, while at KFC, CMO Kevin Hochman became President and Chief Concept Officer.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

For industrial players, this set of criteria often turns attention to areas such as predictive maintenance, advanced planning, and sales optimization — all functions that cover large parts of the cost or margin base, are well measured, and show improvement potential beyond what can be reached with traditional improvement techniques.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.