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6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When

Harvard Business Review

Even if you’re naturally introverted or you tend to be driven by data and analysis rather than emotion, you can still learn how to adapt different leadership styles to organize, motivate, and direct your team. The good news is that personality is not destiny.

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Gap Analysis: What Is It & How To Conduct One

Cascade Strategy

But sometimes, knowing where and how to begin can be challenging. This is where the process of gap analysis comes into play. Gap analysis is a great strategic analysis tool that gives us a broad framework for defining not just where we are today , but more importantly where we want to be and how we're going to get there.

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Research: How to Close the Gender Gap in Startup Financing

Harvard Business Review

A global analysis of previous research over the last three decades shows that women entrepreneurs face a higher rate of business loan denials and increased interest rates in loan decisions made by commercial bankers.

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How To Do A Pestle Analysis In 6 Steps

Cascade Strategy

A PESTLE analysis is a tried-and-true approach for identifying macro-environmental factors that might impact an organization.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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SWOT Analysis Template: How to do vital strategy groundwork

Cascade Strategy

An overview of the SWOT Analysis. How self-aware is your business? How often does your organization take a good hard look at itself — not counting team selfies? A SWOT analysis is a simple but powerful tool that gives you a strong foundation before you create your new business strategy.

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How to Decide If AI Should Be Part of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

How do you distinguish genuine opportunities from speculative fads and make an informed decision on whether AI is your next big bet? After thoughtful analysis, your decision ultimately boils down to this: Does the current state of AI align with your business strategy?

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

Download this ebook to learn how to maintain a strategy that includes refreshed information, database cleanses, and an accurate analysis at the same time. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement. This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

Data aware: Users can combine past experiences, intuition, judgment, and qualitative inputs and data analysis to make decisions. Download the eBook to learn about How to Build Data Experiences for End Users.

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

The digital transformation of supply chains has already begun, so join us for this exclusive webinar to learn how to improve your company’s bottom line and, ultimately, your end customer experience. Hannah Testani will teach us more about: How technology will transform and digitize the supply chain and what impacts we’ll see going forward.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders.

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Never Miss an Opportunity: How ISO 56000 Enables an Innovative Organization

Speaker: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc.

This webinar will cover the newly published ISO 56000 series on Innovation Management, specifically the Guidance Standard ISO 56002 that discusses how to establish an Innovation Management System (IMS). This webinar will show how to build innovation into a Quality System such as ISO 9001. A Project Plan for IMS initiation.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

This presentation will dive into how proper experimental design, multiple hypothesis testing, cohort analysis, and split testing can effectively reduce batch size and meantime to validate insights accelerating your lead time from idea to cash.