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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? This will require reporting on new metrics. Finally, begin to track the progress of your network initiative.

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To Seize the Future, Create a Leadership Circle

Harvard Business

A global pharmaceutical company was about to lose the strategic advantage of several blockbuster drugs coming off patent. Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm. paul Garbett for HBR.

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BTS Group Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Marketing & Sales. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business

Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. Yet it resulted in a corporate mentality focused on making the sale at any cost. At first glance, this policy looks reasonable.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take. Knowing that your lead is interested in the topic of the white paper is critical information when coming up with your inbound sales outreach strategy.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

The term “safety culture” is misleading because it suggests organizations have multiple cultures: one for safety, another for production, and perhaps others for quality and for sales. Injury rates, often called “OSHA recordables” are important metrics, in that they reflect the very real experience of your workforce.

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business

Since 1999, three years after OxyContin was unveiled by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the rate of drug overdoses in the U.S. Meanwhile, the amount of prescription opioids sold by pharmaceutical companies has quadrupled, despite no proliferation in the amount of reported pain.