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Read the latest business news, insights from us and thought-leadership articles to reveal views from a different perspective.
Read the latest business news, insights from us and thought-leadership articles to reveal views from a different perspective.
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How many times have you heard the phrase, “Control the controllables”, at work? Daily, weekly, at your performance review? Don’t worry, it is a rhetorical question because we all know this is common office lingo. In other words, it refers to worrying about only
Lots of businesses have issues. Some have customers who never seem satisfied with your products or services. Others have process and risk failures that bring production to a halt. Occasionally, a key member of staff who seemed happy and committed resigns on you. Whatever
Think Beyond and the West Cheshire & North Wales Chamber of Commerce held the first Lunch & Learn Power Hour on 28th March 2023 at the Ramada Plaza in Wrexham. The one-hour session was sponsored and run by multi-award-winning management consultancy, Think Beyond, and
So, 2023 is turning into much the same as recent times. We are in the midst of a 5-quarter recession in the UK according to the OECD (though recent forecasts are more optimistic). Consumer prices rose by a marginally lower rate of 8.8% in
After 3 years of poor economic growth, households and businesses are fighting inflation. Rising prices caused by volatility in commodities and energy have driven up factory gate prices and service contract costs. Rising prices have also obfuscated the picture on the economy. Yes, that’s
So, you made it to the top but your organisation doesn’t operate as good as it could if you cloned yourself. Staff don’t take accountability. Ideas all seem to come from you. Nothing changes despite hiring a few new people. Many organisations operate on
Demand units are the new currency of B2B marketers. First it was about awareness, then about relevance. From relevance came personalisation and quality over quantity. As we headed towards a world where B2B marketers struggled to remain relevant, ABM came to the rescue. Simultaneously
For how long has your company existed? 10 years? 50 years? 200 years? It is tempting to think that there is nothing to learn from the past, with most senior leaders preferring to look forward. They prefer to rewrite the company according to their
Customer experience management (CXM or CEM) is a strategic approach to enhancing customer satisfaction, experience and engagement using people, processes, systems and partners. In short, it is what an organisation does to understand, measure and enhance the customer experience. Given the vast data lakes
At one point or another, we are fairly sure that you were rejected for a job because of ‘cultural fit’. Other times, it was because another candidate was a closer ‘fit’ to the job specification. Don’t worry, it wasn’t just you. Sometimes, you don’t
It is fair to say that not everyone looks at their finance department as the fuel in the engine (or volts in the battery). Some purely view the function as an overhead to be minimised. Others are led by finance to the extent that
The outside view is a methodology for thinking, problem-solving and prediction based on outside situations, examples and analogies. This differs from traditional thinking and approaches to problem-solving, also known as the inside view. The inside view takes a current situation or problem and seeks