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		<title>Focus on people (not profit) to make profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Places with happier employees make more money. Any CEO worth his bonus will tell you that it’s all about the people. Well, there’s some old research and now some new research that proves it.
Creating a High Achievement Culture
In 2001, the great David Maister published the results of a research study of 139 offices of 29 [...]


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<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/how-to-invent-a-profit/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How to Invent a Profit'>How to Invent a Profit</a> <small>“If Bill Gates had been British he’d be running the...</small></li>
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		<title>How to Invent a Profit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“If Bill Gates had been British he’d be running the largest software company in Guildford by now.”
A former Design Council chair once remarked. We seem to be great in the UK at innovation but not so good at bringing ideas to market and making a profit.  Why are we so bad at commercialising innovation?
I think [...]


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<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/focus-on-people-not-profit-to-make-profit/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Focus on people (not profit) to make profit'>Focus on people (not profit) to make profit</a> <small>Places with happier employees make more money. Any CEO worth...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/8-tips-to-building-a-sales-persons-value-proposition/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 8 Tips to Building a Sales Person&#8217;s Value Proposition?'>8 Tips to Building a Sales Person&#8217;s Value Proposition?</a> <small>What is a sales person’s value proposition? This very interesting...</small></li>
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		<title>8 Tips to Building a Sales Person&#8217;s Value Proposition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is a sales person’s value proposition? This very interesting question was posed recently on LinkedIn.  The questioner asked: Is it Product Knowledge? Is It Customer Relationship? Is it Negotiation or Communications Skills? In this era of Web 2.0 &#8211; where buyers are better informed and demanding and have direct access to vendors and in [...]


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<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/review-offerings-stay-profitable/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Review your Offerings to stay Profitable'>Review your Offerings to stay Profitable</a> <small>A travel industry client of a colleague recently reduced its...</small></li>
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		<title>Culture Shock and the Customer Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laid up in bed before Christmas with the inevitable holiday flu, I was watching re-runs of QI, a very funny and clever British quiz show hosted by the wonderful Stephen Fry.  They were talking about Paris Syndrome which is the extreme culture shock experienced by Japanese tourists upon visiting Paris.  Apparently the difference in Latin [...]


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<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/8-tips-to-building-a-sales-persons-value-proposition/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: 8 Tips to Building a Sales Person&#8217;s Value Proposition?'>8 Tips to Building a Sales Person&#8217;s Value Proposition?</a> <small>What is a sales person’s value proposition? This very interesting...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/what-do-the-following-have-in-common%e2%80%a6/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What do the following have in common…?'>What do the following have in common…?</a> <small>Customer experience, voice of the customer, market selection, client selection,...</small></li>
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		<title>Bringing in the New Year and New Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of one calendar year and the beginning of another is always a time to reflect and to cast out what we don’t want in our lives any more and welcome in new beginnings.
So at the end of this year, and indeed this decade, I rather like Pulitzer prize winning journalist Ellen Goodman’s view [...]


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		<title>The True Value of Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was musing recently if my true love had ever considered what I might value for Christmas.  If he had, I thought, I wouldn’t have received the 8mb memory card for my digital camera that I received last year.  I know this sounds ungrateful but if
value = benefits – cost (where cost can also be [...]


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<li><a href='http://futurecurve.com/what-do-the-following-have-in-common%e2%80%a6/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What do the following have in common…?'>What do the following have in common…?</a> <small>Customer experience, voice of the customer, market selection, client selection,...</small></li>
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		<title>Consultative or Transactional Selling – is there anything in between anymore?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waiting in my local florist last week I was struck by the increasing polarisation between sales styles. Being served was a young girl about to get married who was very emotional and wanted her wedding flowers to be ‘just perfect’ but she didn’t really know what she wanted. I listened as the very patient sales [...]


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		<title>Does BA understand the concept of Value Proposition?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am fascinated to note that British Airways appears to be moving away from the concept of delivering customer value and is focusing solely on the balance sheet. Over the last three months, BA has abolished meals on short flights, cut luggage allowances and has just introduced charging extra for the privilege of reserving your [...]


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		<title>More jam, anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, &#8216;how does having more to choose from affect your choice&#8217;?
Have you ever felt so daunted by the amount of different things to choose from that you ended up not choosing anything at all? If so, you are not alone, as the results from the following experiment show. A stall was set up in a [...]


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		<title>Selling to the Post-recession Buyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the developed world, until last year we had 15 years of uninterrupted prosperity where growth was a permanent feature. Between 1995 and 2005 disposable incomes increased in the slower economies by 10% and in the highest growth economies by as much as 33%. That economic landscape has had a profound impact on our buying [...]


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