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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

TechCrunch

“[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. “We also plan to double our R&D team this year to make our conversations even more efficient and launch new automated channels.

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The Big Picture of Business: Goal Setting… An Important Part of Strategic Planning.

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Study the organization’s core business. Training is vital.

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Is Your Business Sinking? 12 Holes You Need To Plug

Strategy Driven

Try SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis. It’ll provide you information required for strategic planning and identifying undisclosed holes you haven’t plugged in yet. These assets can become your much-needed backup for the business. Trust your team. How to perform this action?

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. Teaching-Training.

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Failing to emphasize training. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. Bad managers will fall by the wayside.

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The Big Picture of Business – Pave and Refine the Company Way, Corporate Culture

Strategy Driven

I was at a service counter, and the clerk was bad-mouthing the customers. “I Hold training about personal demeanor. Cut the weeds who will bring down the standards of the company and cast doubts on your team. Always recognize the Big Picture aspect to all business decisions. Every one of them has a problem today.”

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Management Styles

Strategy Driven

In this era, business started embracing formal planning. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. Yet, you wouldn’t know the correlation when poor customer service is rendered.