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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. They must learn how other functions affect, and are affected by, selling activities: for example, product management, marketing, pre-sale application support, and post-sale service.

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Meet the Wellness Programs That Save Companies Money

Harvard Business

Workplace wellness is under scrutiny by skeptics who argue that the return on investment (ROI) in wellness programs does not justify their costs. The current ROI debate has focused on whether one type of wellness program, lifestyle management (diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes), can reduce health care claims and lead to lower costs.

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Consultant Ninja: Dipping my toe in the health care debate.

Consultant Ninja

They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. overlapping administration costs of insurance companies; advertising costs of new drugs) and decrease the quality of delivery (e.g. Hammerspace.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business

As pressure intensifies to reduce prices, either by cutting the list price or offering a discount, managers may act hastily, without the same rigor they apply to investments elsewhere, such as capital deployment or product enhancements. All too often they don’t.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business

They undermine productivity and account for more than 85% of health care costs — a big reason premiums for employer-sponsored health care have increased by 123% since 2000 while wages have increased by only 43%. One example is Omada Health , which modeled its product after the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program study.

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The 5 Things Your AI Unit Needs to Do

Harvard Business

How can he create cross-functional teams where data experts work with product teams? And how will they pick project ideas that produce real ROI? This is the case at German insurance company Allianz, which funded Europe’s first global AI equity fund to position itself as a “pioneer in AI investments.”

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