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4 Ways to Build a Productive Sales Culture

Harvard Business Review

Companies will spend about $30 billion on CRM alone by the end of 2015, according to Gartner. Strategy and planning process. According to surveys, about two-thirds of companies treat strategic planning as an annual precursor to the capital budgeting process. Managers must manage this decision.

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The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

According to PwC’s 2015 study on Global Innovation , U.S. In Conference Board’s 2015 CEO Challenge study , 943 CEOs ranked “human capital” and “innovation” as their top two long-term challenges to driving business growth. Involve people throughout the organization in the strategic planning process.

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What Is Strategy, Again?

Harvard Business Review

As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”