Category Archives: Discuss: Improving the Business of the Business

Balancing Value Creation and Cost-Cutting: A Strategic Imperative for Today’s C-Suite

Or, don’t just lunge at cost cutting- adopt approach that helps to focus on value creation and cost alignment Continue reading

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This might be part of the [apparently] secret formula necessary to help you Improve the Business of your Business

Active observation over the past several years suggest that curiosity seems to have dampened. Perhaps it is the fear of “doing deep dives” in situations that we fear might become uncomfortable. Perhaps it is remote working- or perhaps it is … Continue reading

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Systems Thinking- When the going gets tough, go back to the basics

As many know, there is an abundance of e-commerce data ranging from web site visits through sales and abandoned carts etc.  The data is arrayed over many different timeframes and it can be overwhelming to make sense of it and … Continue reading

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Four organization traits that enabled high performing efforts in 2019

We have pledged to share insights that we think might be useful to our friends and clients businesses and organizations.  2019 provided a lot of learning experiences and we have identified four significant traits that we think helped to distinguish … Continue reading

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When the lower cost providers innovate- others need to take heed!

Great article in this morning’s Philly.com.  http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151113_Rowan_offers_a_cheaper_three-year_plan.html Public Universities are growing, while many private universities are struggling.  It was so refreshing to see a school like Rowan, take a move that benefits both the University and its students.   I … Continue reading

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US Higher Ed needs to master the learning curve and smartly deal with excess capacity

It has been an interesting few weeks for Higher Education.  Last week, the Economist published a great article on the need to reform education—the challenges demanding it, and the factors accelerating the ability to transform. In the past few weeks, … Continue reading

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