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Could your team cut down meetings to only two days a week?

Idea to Value

Is your team having too many meetings? Do you ever come to the end of a workday and feel stressed because instead of getting any productive work done, you have spent nearly the whole day in back-to-back meetings? 70% of all meetings prevent people being productive. These meetings may seem like the best time to do this.

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How Calibration Meetings Introduce Bias into Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

These meetings, in which supervisors discuss and adjust ratings across the company, are often intended to eradicate bias. In fact, they can have the opposite effect.

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Eight Companies that Switched What They Did

Destination Innovation

Here are examples of eight successful companies which switched from one activity to another in order to meet a customer need. Berkshire Hathaway was originally a textile manufacturing company established by Oliver Chace in 1839 in Rhode Island. He used it as a vehicle to buy stakes in insurance companies and other businesses.

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Addictive, exclusive, experience: Critical factors for new products or companies

Jeffrey Phillips

I had quite a day yesterday, meeting with a potential partner at Starbucks, getting my iPhone repaired at the Apple store and a number of other activities. Starbucks is providing a place for people to meet and work, and that additional benefit cannot be overlooked. What does this say about the creation of a new product or company?

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Take the following stats into consideration: It takes 5 minutes to connect with a prospect via direct dials, but takes 22 minutes using company switchboard numbers. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal.

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Achieving Balance With Company Culture, Benefit Design, and Employee Well-Being

Business and Tech

A company culture that fosters flexibility and transparency is key to employees feeling comfortable, valued, and supported. Employees’ sense of security can be strengthened by comprehensive programs that include financial education, and well-being and leave of absence benefit offerings to meet employee needs.

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4 Ways COVID-19 Forces Companies to Innovate

IdeaScale

According to a recent survey , company leaders who responded predicted a 20 to 30 percent drop in sales. Since that time, businesses have increased innovation management efforts to meet unexpected demands for change in numerous ways. Companies are leveraging digital platforms to revitalize certain areas of business.

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

Have you ever had internal financial goals handed down to you that seem nearly impossible to meet? By driving your company’s “top-down” goals with a clear and well communicated “customer-up” product strategy! Align your company’s strategic goals to your customers’ unmet needs. And that’s exactly what we’re.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Meet your modern sales playbook - See how high-performing sales and marketing teams increase pipeline year-over-year. Use our proven data-driven plays to grow your pipeline and crush your revenue targets.

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Best Practices for Modern Records Management and Retention

Speaker: Sean Baird, Director of Product Marketing at Nuxeo

In this webinar, we will: Examine the pitfalls that prevent groups from failing to meet company and regulatory expectations. Discuss successful strategies that take advantage of these technologies to meet retention requirements while reducing the reliance on content creators and consumers.

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Choosing the Right Tech Stack –– The Only Way to Grow

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal - CEO and Co-Founder of Chameleon

Why are tech stacks vital to your company's growth? But how do you choose the right tools to meet team and business objectives now and in the future? How to choose the right products for your company. The answer is simple: product teams without good tech stacks are like builders without their toolkits.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

In this exclusive webinar with Jay Black, you’ll look at how the manufacturing supply chain has evolved to rise up and meet challenges, and how other verticals’ supply chain trends play into how manufacturing can and must continue to advance for success.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. At least 3,000 start-ups receive seed investment each year. The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

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