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Navigating a Downturn: Strategies for Business Resilience

Tom Spencer

Embrace Innovation Innovation can be a game-changer for businesses by simultaneously enabling them to operate more efficiently and open up new revenue streams. This flexibility enables businesses to reduce fixed costs by shrinking the size of their commercial office space, scale their workforce based on demand, and improve overall efficiency.

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Technology Is Changing What a Premium Automotive Brand Looks Like

Harvard Business

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Marketing and sales: offline vs. online.

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Top 15 Capacity Planning Tools for Your Business [2024]

Epicflow

Reporting and analytics A robust capacity planning tool should generate reports and dashboards with insights into resource availability and capacity, allocation, and utilization, which will help managers track resource performance and assess the efficiency of project work. Why do you need capacity planning software?

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Digital Transformation in Manufacturing in 2024: Benefits & Examples

Epicflow

How can manufacturers ensure production efficiency and competitiveness? Digital transformation in the manufacturing industry refers to the application of digital technologies to any manufacturing process with the aim of its optimization, increasing the quality of the output, and enhancing overall efficiency.

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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

Rationale: The main reason IBM decided to buy these 40+ companies is that they could all benefit from the firm’s global sales force. Mergers are common in the automotive industry and usually motivated by a central reason. All these companies had smaller scale than IBM and slightly different technology. Image: Pexels.

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Organizational structure for remote teams

Asamby Consulting

Poor(er) problem solving Businesses are facing and making tough decisions, to identify a problem, break it down into its components, and solve the problem effectively and efficiently is vital. Examples of common functions are sales, marketing, human resources, etc.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings.

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