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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. While keeping CX top of mind throughout the whole M&A process is challenging, the benefits are undeniable: It keeps your most coveted customers and your team intact.

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

Harvard Business

companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets. ’s manufacturing innovation decline has traced a similar decline in practical engineering talent. Mind the Mittelstand. Power to the people.

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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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The 4 Main Ways to Innovate in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

One challenges with the specialist mode is that companies must build these technical capabilities in-house to prevent imitation from competitors; to attract and retain top talent; and to maintain process rigor in the an era of increasing design churn. Companies such as Volkswagen, Boeing, IBM, and Apple are active in this mode.

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Organizational Development for Small Business: What You Need to Know

Asamby Consulting

Small businesses play a vital role in the global economy, with millions of them operating worldwide. OD interventions can take many forms, including training and development programs, process improvement initiatives, and cultural change initiatives. Managing Change: Small businesses operate in a constantly changing environment.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Human experts (talent) – and the knowledge and skills they bring to the table – are responsible for generating business value and differentiating their firm from the competition. Can you automate manual processes?

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Business consulting services

Asamby Consulting

A strategy consultant will take an overall view of the client's business and market while looking at its allocation of resources, and try to improve the client’s business. Operations To put it simple, operational consulting improves the optimization of a company's internal operations and performance in the value chain.