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Future of Work Connie Steele Future of Work Connie Steele

The Fluid Organization: Why Businesses also Need to be Adaptive, Flexible and Iterative to Align with Today’s Workers

In today’s work world, change is constant and uncertainty is the new certainty. There have been fundamental shifts in workforce wants, beliefs and approaches which has been reflected the changing dynamics on the career front. The future is now fluid which means not only are individuals testing and learning their way to finding work-life fit, organizations need to do the same to find mutual fit with their employees based on the goals they want to achieve. That implies you now have to be a fluid organization in the way you think and do.



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Strategy & Planning Connie Steele Strategy & Planning Connie Steele

Data-Driven vs. Gut-Driven Decision-Making: Which is More Effective?

Decision-making is happening faster than ever in our rapidly pivoting world. Tt’s apparent to ask: is one style of decision-making — git-driven or data-driven — now more effective than the other? In covering this topic, I pulled from interviews I’ve conducted with guests on the Strategic Momentum Podcast. Here’s what I found out.

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Marketing Connie Steele Marketing Connie Steele

Analyzing the Chain of Why to Understand Your Customers' Behavior

Consumers don’t answer questions at a deep level when you initially ask them why they bought or would buy a product. How do you tap into their psyche to get at those underlying motivations? The Means-End approach uses laddering to get to the underlying “why” behind the interviewee’s purchasing decision, and could be your solution.

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Marketing Connie Steele Marketing Connie Steele

Optimizing Your Initiatives Means Knowing Your Customer Inside and Out

How well do you really know your target audience? The reality is that most marketers don’t. But understanding your customers is critical to delivering the best customer experience, serving up the right product, or whatever your intended business objective may be. You can’t positively impact your business if you don’t everything about them.

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