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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

The repercussions of water damage are far-reaching, potentially causing extensive property damage, interrupting business operations, and leading to substantial financial losses. Technology can revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering new tools for efficiency, communication, and data analysis.

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Big Data, Big Opportunity

Chartered Management Institute

It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? But there’s still a big question for a lot of people.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

Providing low-cost elements such as the opportunity to be entrepreneurial and involved in decision-making, along with a focus on giving back to the community, are as important to employees today as health benefits or a 401(k). They want to work for a company that serves as a role model for ethical and values-centered behavior.

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Is The Single Market Preventing Digital Champions In Europe?

The Horizons Tracker

In their latest book they lift the lid on the thousands of Chinese companies that have grown to dominate their markets, and suggest that these companies have progressed beyond copying western firms or providing a low-cost manufacturing base for western giants, and now drive the agenda as a result of a high-skilled workforce and innovative behavior.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Most conference evaluation forms are lightweight and ask for surface rankings.rather than for nuggets of knowledge learned. This is another of my trademarked concepts, known as The High Cost of Doing Nothing.).

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Profiting from the Golden Rule

Harvard Business Review

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Our system of financial accounting rewards quarterly profits, but struggles mightily to place a value on ethical behavior.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

That work brought me back, as so many things do, to Coase''s early writings — in particular his two searingly critical yet insightful essays, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937) and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960). Yet "The Problem of Social Cost" has proven to be one of the most-cited articles in the history of economics.

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