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Big Thinking for Small Business

Women on Business

Your budget may have limitations, but your imagination doesn’t, so just because you own a small business doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for big thinking. There are zillions of DIY resources out there to help you attain the quality and packaging you want for your business. Or, big execution. Need a tangible? Your website.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 4 of 7

Strategy Driven

In other words, we’re paying people to think, to innovate, and to collaborate with others to produce the best possible results. This process is called commitment-based management, and it will be as powerful for the next generation of managers as quality was for the last. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

High-quality people can make your life miserable when they get into key jobs. Inflate budgets. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy' If things still don’t improve, blame it on the consultant.

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Coping with Workspace Envy, What to do when your workspace options are limited

Strategy Driven

For many companies, budgets are tight and options are limited — so there’s no way you can purchase funky new furniture let alone do something like put a mini-basketball court in a meeting room. With all the competing demands and plethora of workspace design trends, perhaps it’s no wonder that Gensler’s 2013 U.S. About the Author.

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New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong

Harvard Business Review

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Consider the following impacts of sequestration on Federal health agencies and activities: Cuts to the FY13 budget: $1.71 noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. In order to accomplish this, proposals will largely focus on what is termed “wasteful spending” in health care, spending not associated with improved quality that, by some estimates , accounts for over one-fourth of total health care spending. Insight Center.