Thriving in the Customer-Driven Market

Today’s market is more customer-driven than ever before. Everyone and everything is connected, everywhere and all the time.  Companies who compile “big data” believe that it this gives them an advantage, but in reality, today’s high connectivity makes data access available to many. Often, much of the available data is inward-looking, generated by the operations of the business, rather than outward-looking which reflects customer or market insights. Your business lives with your customers. It always has, from its …

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Winning in the Customer-Driven Market

Bob Schultek Author of  The Gauntlet Businesses today operate in a customer-driven market. Everyone and everything is connected, everywhere and all the time. It’s a world of rapid and unpredictable change in which organizations are constantly adapting to meet evolving customers’ needs, never reaching a steady operating state. It’s a time that challenges the historical devotion to organizational bureaucracy as a means for improving results, placing conformity above all other cultural values at the cost of inhibiting initiative and imagination. Many companies believe …

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