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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. One example would be generating order confirmation emails after a customer completes a purchase online. This also creates a place for hosting all of your data.

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How to avoid “death by meeting.”

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] The concept of a scrum is a good one to use in many cases of immediate need to coordinate a working group. The purpose of the Scrum. Scrums are effective and should be short, scheduled, and supervised. Board meetings are often killers. . Hardeners of the arteries of progress.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

This will allow the clients to educate themselves in a much simpler and streamlined way.Secondly, implement virtual zoom calls to discuss the products and ultimately finish the sales process. But now, with the technology, I don’t even have to wait for a minute to receive an email containing the scanned documents I needed.

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How to avoid “death by meeting.”

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] And yet, there are times when co–ordination between people and groups requires a meeting, whether in person or over digital channels. The concept of a scrum is a good one to use in many cases of immediate need to coordinate a working group. Board meetings are often killers.

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Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two

Growthink Blog

Here are four critical business domains - financing, sales, organization design and goal setting where the high-flyers get it right: Financing. Yes, any sales team for any business, no matter the industry, would instantly perform a LOT better by just emulating the "Messianic Enthusiasm" of the high flyers. on an ongoing basis.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. The purpose of this email is to clarify some facts, because this is an extremely confusing issue. It will not cause us to raise prices or lay off people, or relocate out of state. Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,