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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. The retail organization wanted to see how this applied to its stores. This playbook is the norm in most organizations.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

But comfortable reliance on this “precious” relationship has left us in a situation where the customers of many other sectors (such as retail) are often treated better from an experiential standpoint than medicine’s patients. The doctor-patient relationship has long been sacrosanct.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Although projects have unique features, there are many similarities between process improvement, system change, M&A, and reorganization projects. And today some businesses such as retailers are using predictive analytics for hiring frontline staff. Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy.