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Insight, whether you like it or not. HIT Solutions is in the business of providing … well, solutions. Some just happen to be liquid. This blog is an ambitious effort for a young business that was...
View ArticleClues to building your future roadmap lie outside the industry
How will customer expectations change in the coming year? Connect the dots backward and observe seemingly unrelated trends and changes in the world to find your own path. Here’s 21 “sight bites” that...
View ArticleA four-step prescription to help you drive markets
Successful suppliers are capable of swiftly satisfying changing customer needs. Creating the greatest impact to improve customer engagement is everyone’s job. The airline industry for example, knowing...
View Article7 Lesson package on efficiency and other survival skills.
Faced with imminent danger of losing the business, managers will use whatever skills they can muster to survive. A new business book, Surviving Your Serengeti, offers ways to be efficient in survival...
View Article3 Elements of strategy you must have to succeed!
Having a vision is one of the least appreciated—yet most important—themes for building your business. Defining your strategic intent is even more rare. Yet, history has shown that some companies rise...
View ArticleLessons from a successful dictator/CEO.
Are we getting smarter about how we run our industrial businesses? What type of leadership style is the most effective? The Industrious Bastard endorses a new business book loaded with success secrets....
View ArticleBusiness development requires bravery.
Comfort inhibits your company’s chances of growing toward a preferable future. Here’s my advice if you’re part of your company’s bizdev team: stop doing what everybody expects and stop delivering what...
View ArticleGive your sales strategy a huge leg up!
You’re in business to create customers. But we can’t really have customers unless we understand them. Small qualitative research projects are particularly well suited for small niche players who want...
View ArticleReshoring becomes more and more compelling
Trend: American Consumers are avoiding foreign manufactured products. It’s powered by renewed belief in American made products and the promise to save jobs. But what can a small independent...
View ArticleRobotics: the basis of a paradigm shift
The potential for robotic technology is hard to imagine. We’ll look back on these times as nothing more than the period when robots saved our buts. Fundamentally robots are “designed” to increase...
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