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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

Entrepreneurs in Chinese industries from animated media to applied medical research said that China’s insistence on domestic standards are resulting in less-ambitious innovation and that the education system is not supporting appropriate talent development. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. Around the world, educated people are the one single indispensable ingredient for innovation. Mind the Mittelstand.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

There are three very common shiny objects that derail customer success efforts in the early stage: Process improvements to issue routing, issue classification, and automated responses seem reasonable. It’s time to dedicate a full-time person to building your knowledge base and providing customer education support.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. I’m not a strict operator. Sometimes it’s not operational capacity.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

It includes social factors (employment, family and social support, income, education), behaviors (diet and exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, sexual activity), and the physical environment (housing, air and water quality, transportation). Our pilot effort was supported in part by a federal grant.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. You do not have a consistent policy or do not educate employees well.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

Over time, the executives get so engrossed in running the day to day operations of the business that they forget that the purpose of the business is to serve it’s customers. You are not transparent or operate in bad faith. You do not have a consistent policy or do not educate employees well.

Banking 78