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Does Market Share Still Matter?

Harvard Business

Market share has traditionally correlated strongly with profitability because of efficiency, market efficiency, and customer perception effects. But, as the authors demonstrate, the relationship has been changed by the digital transformation in firms. In both cases, digital helps smaller firms catch up with larger rivals.

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Figuring Out How IT, Analytics, and Operations Should Work Together

Harvard Business

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Building a Direct-to-Consumer Strategy Without Alienating Your Distributors

Harvard Business

These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock entirely new business models. As a result, many B2B companies remain stuck in a stalemate. Microsoft was able to do so largely due to its monopolization of the desktop operating system market. Three Images/Getty Images.

Strategy 128
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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. We’ve referred to this phenomenon as corporate robo-advisers , and we see more of them all the time.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Why you need a COO or Operations Manager. Either their operations have grown quite a bit or they are in the midst of growing. Many founders and CEOs ask us this question: Do I need an operations manager? But there are a few questions: Why is it necessary to hire an operations person? We answer with a resounding yes.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. ” The intention was right, but there was no operational impact. If you’re B2B, the train is parked in the station, but it’s leaving soon. For us, flywheel is a powerful metaphor. I made a couple mistakes along the way. Employee skills.

Sales 132
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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.