Business decision makers sometimes face adversarial priorities when it comes to decision making. In the interest of furthering the business, good decisions must be grounded in research, forethought, and collaborative brainstorming. In the interest of optimizing for productivity and responding to developing crises, decisions must be made quickly. Is it possible to make decisions that […]
The B2B sales process has undoubtedly changed in recent years due to technological and economic shifts. Cold calls and lengthy in-person meetings, once the cornerstones of B2B enterprise business development, have become a thing of the past. Instead, business decision-makers now conduct a staggering amount of research online before engaging with a salesperson. A study […]
Running a business can be busy and hectic at any time. There’s a constant stream of emails to respond to, meetings to attend, inventory to manage, customers to serve, marketing strategies to develop, employees to supervise, budgets to balance, and always unexpected challenges to overcome. However, during a product launch, everything is turned up a […]
Businesses are built around processes. However, a process that works for a small office might not work for a large, multi-location company. As your company grows, you may need to change your processes to make them more efficient. This is known as process optimization. If your company is expanding, you don’t only need to optimize […]
The world is experiencing a quiet revolution. It’s not taking place in the halls of political power or the streets of some faraway city. Rather, it’s happening in factories, ports, construction sites, and offices across the planet. We’re talking about the productivity revolution. Many of us are only just waking up to it as next-generation […]
Internal business communication has come a long way in the past several decades. From passing physical memos around to internal phone systems to instant messaging, technology has changed the way businesses communicate. But with all that technology comes a problem. Sometimes businesses will onboard various systems that have overlapping capabilities. Other times, the business grows […]
Since the pandemic, companies have had to change their employee engagement playbooks significantly to support shifting business environments. As many businesses were forced to shift to remote or hybrid workforces, employees took the opportunity to rethink their company positioning, overall job satisfaction, and personal needs. According to the ADP Research Institute, the Covid-19 pandemic sparked […]
Just over 30 years ago, the development of web-based learning management systems became a new form of textual communication, using education technology as an influential way to approach teaching and learning. Since that time, education technology has gone beyond the use of educators and has become an increasingly popular approach for entrepreneurs and business leaders […]
2023 is kicking off with talent at a premium — which should come as a surprise to no one. The growing issues of talent gaps and upskilling have been in the spotlight for a while now. The fact that truly talented workers are hard to come by at the moment is a natural progression of […]
Transforming and optimizing businesses are just two of the many goals that processes and technologies are successfully crushing. Take the quote, “A conspicuous failure,” for example. That’s one of the descriptions of what was a new-fangled invention of the late 19th century. What was the crazy contraption? Ironically, it was something that would end up […]
