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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey

TechCrunch

The expense involved in recruiting, training and onboarding a new employee who turns out to be a poor fit could be equivalent to 50% of that person’s first-year salary. “Pipeline generation at early-stage companies is expensive and time consuming, often more so than the sales process itself.

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Product Life Cycle: How to Extend Your Product Market Presence

Altexsoft

After the development stage itself, which always comes with great efforts for a programming team and a thoughtful product manager, every product starts its own life in a market environment. Stage 0: Development. For a software product, entering the market is usually preceded by the development stage. Product life cycle.

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Improving Decision Making by 75% using Supply Chain Visualization

Sunflower Lab

Often, data can be altered by various team members, leading to discrepancies and disruptions in information flow to stakeholders. Integration with Other Microsoft Products : Power BI seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft products and services, such as Excel, SharePoint, and Teams.

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Two DevOps Metrics for Agile Teams & their Managers

Storm Consulting

I’ve written before in the executive challenge about why MIB’s CIO chose these two KPIs from the eight DevOps metrics that the management consulting firm insisted were necessary. Essentially it’s because they are associated with levers that allow managers and teams to focus on the smallest thing that will really make a difference.

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Rail Fleet Management: How Technologies Help Handle Asset Tracking and Maintenance in Freight Rail Industry

Altexsoft

miles long carrying 82,000 metric tons of ore), and more sustainable (one ton of freight can be moved over 470 miles on just a single gallon of diesel fuel). KPI monitoring and analytics. Performance metrics have to be consistently monitored to uncover your company’s problem areas and development opportunities.

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Procurement Analytics: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implementation Approaches

Altexsoft

The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) research showed that on average, companies lose around 9 percent of annual revenue due to poor contract management. It can also be an indicator of poor planning. This KPI also helps categorize your suppliers. Inventory-related KPIs.

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13 Challenges to the Current State of Leadership

CoachStation

Although a leaders ability and willingness to communicate with their team members is key, it is not the only aspect of effective leadership. As highlighted in one of the points below, to develop in this space is a choice – yours, not someone elses. Put another way, you exist as a leader because of your team, not the other way around!