Johanna Rothman

JUNE 21, 2023

In product development, we often use the words, “user” and “customer” interchangeably. But they mean different things depending on the type of product you create. It's time to clarify who we want to satisfy, so we can make better product decisions. Users use the product. Not all mass-market Buyers are also users.

Productivity 119

Productivity Telecommunications Enterprise Development 119

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Project portfolio management software is vital for businesses aiming to thrive in competitive markets for a couple of reasons: It streamlines project portfolio oversight Managing multiple projects within a portfolio can be challenging without clear visibility.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2012

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BCG

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Many global enterprises today have succeeded by following a simple recipe: procure, manufacture, and assemble in the lowest-cost locations, link these using reliable, standardized logistics and information technology, market the resulting products globally, and book profit in low-tax havens. Article Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Customer relationship management – Companies are expected to maintain positive customer relationship by investing in things like product safety, user experience, brand values, honest advertising, and data protection. This commitment extends across its entire production process, from sourcing raw materials to the final product assembly.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

When the COVID-19 crisis became evident in South Africa in mid-March, the South African government put strict lockdown measures in place, including school closures and store lockdowns which were accompanied by reducing the output of production facilities. Obstacles in Emerging Markets. Conclusion.

Marketing 103

Marketing Boston Consulting Group Government Transportation 103

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

and how the work is accomplished, the flow by which products and services are created and delivered (e.g., Business Strategy : The organization’s formula for winning (e.g., goals, objectives, values, etc.). Organization Strategy : The placement of power and authority (e.g., organizational chart, division of labor, etc.)

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System Consulting Enterprise Recruiting 216

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. What do these enterprises need to scale up? CEOs of social enterprises need to act as the chief recruiting officer and not delegate hiring, particularly for top positions.

Talent 133

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Read further to learn about the top winners in the market and get tips on choosing the right tool for your organization. Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Therefore, weve compiled a list of 15 best PMO software tools. What is a PMO?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Feedback on social media can serve as a valuable source of information for companies, helping them to improve and develop products and services. Anecdotes aside, does this user feedback actually help create better products? Maxime Ge/Getty Images. In our study , we analyze the role that Facebook plays in the innovation process.

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Productivity Media Enterprise Analysis 73

Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

And our topic today is really focusing on those product companies. Why are they buying your product and not someone else’s? Sometimes the marketing message has fallen off. We have this foundational population of just rabid fans who love our product. So, sometimes it’s a disconnect just on that marketing plan.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. paul garbett for hbr. However, they hardly represent the transformation that has been promised with this new approach.

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Enterprise Methodologies Meeting Accenture 138

Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

You’ve probably demonstrated your product’s potential with a subset of customers, and now experienced investors are willing to place a bet on you. Unfortunately, many tech startups get stuck at this stage because they can’t quite figure out a scalable way to go to market.

Marketing 70

Marketing Software Sales Exercises 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

Just as we wouldn’t rely on a single marketing tactic or a single source of financing for the entire life of an organization, we need to build up a portfolio of innovation strategies designed for specific tasks. When that happens, innovating your products won’t help — you have to innovate your business model.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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Metrics Survey Software Operations 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 4, 2018

Thoughtfully managed, recommendations can prove far more valuable to marketers than for the customers they ostensibly serve. Recommendation engines not only generate useful data for analyzing customer desires; they can be harnessed to make tactical and strategic recommendations for marketers. Data-Driven Marketing.

Engineering 73

Engineering Marketing Advertising Enterprise 73

Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2016

How does disruptive innovation differ when it’s applied to a product versus a platform? For the sake of clarity, let’s call a product “a platform that is used for one or very few products” and a platform “a structure upon which many variations of products are built.” Insight Center.

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Productivity Industry Marketing Accenture 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Enterprise Data Productivity Software 104

Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

It can grow and mature together with other enterprises, many of which are driving the economic advances in those areas. It’s mostly driven by the financial markets and investor positioning. The workforce will be more engaged, more productive, and the outcomes will be greatly improved. How can I cut costs and improve margins?

Consulting 130

Consulting Enterprise Industry Management 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Data Company Survey Video 135

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

By providing more workers and employees with opportunities to buy shares, companies can help workers and communities raise their standard of living and simultaneously feel more invested — literally — in the success of the enterprise. workforce, are employed at variations of worker-owned enterprises.

Company 132

Company Enterprise Finance Operations 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category.

Sales 131

Sales Software Productivity Data 131

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Donnie’s media release states that “In Canada … not-for-profit institutions now contribute 8% of the country’s gross domestic product.” Loyal community members can provide the financial capital to keep the community going through donations and by buying products and services. What could have changed?

Enterprise 107

Enterprise Financial Media Strategy 107

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent. In our book Time, Talent and Energy , we note that when employees aren’t as productive as they could be, it’s usually the organization, not its employees, that is to blame.

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Company Energy Tools Talent 136

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Energy Agile Productivity Talent 136

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers. What’s more, that percentage generally goes down the lower the price of a product.

Productivity 70

Productivity Wireless Data Survey 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This lack of diversity is reflected in the products it produces. Software and hardware engineers regularly test new technology products to ensure they are not harmful to people or businesses that will use them in the real world. Engineers conduct testing in labs and research facilities before a product launches.

Engineering 133

Engineering Talent Productivity Ethics 133

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How organizations are changing.

Change Management 136

Change Management Management Software Productivity 136

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

Engineering 128

Engineering Government Automotive Research 128

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

To win hearts and minds (and dollars), marketers must be able to identify those intent-rich moments—when someone is looking to learn something, go somewhere, do something, or buy something … and act. Read more from Google Analytics 360 Suite: Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up.

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Data Survey Tools Marketing 102

Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Epicflow Awards and Our Clients’ Achievements Best ERP Solution Epicflow has received another award from Crozdesk – the product review platform experts have recognized Epicflow as one of the best ERP Software Solutions in 2023. Stay tuned!

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Consulting Matters

JULY 15, 2020

You can set it up to act as your 24/7 marketing machine. I get it - it's hard because your entire leadership team is all over the map and they're all jockeying for your approval and they don't care about the enterprise perspective, the way that you do so therefore you need a consultant like me to come alongside you. Content marketing.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

billion by 2050, and to feed that number of people, global food production will need to grow by 70%. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion people by then, farm productivity must accelerate at a faster rate than the global average to avoid continued mass hunger.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As marketing continues to shift and improve, we’ve come to rely on IT to provide expertise on current technology and, perhaps more importantly, to provide a road map that shows where technology will lead, where integration is critical, and how to make the best use of increasingly sophisticated tools. This means being more strategic.

Marketing 70

Marketing Data Banking System 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time.

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How To Strategy Strategy Strategy& 131

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.

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