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Is Your Business Focus too Small?

March 21, 2016 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

The business focus of your company is exquisitely tailored to one industry niche or one customer segment. You still may be way off target. No matter what the size of your business, or how well you capture the business value of your offering, you may be thinking too small. Let’s explore. Offer core capabilities to new… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: business focus, business model, core capabilities

Professional Value is a Big Idea

February 8, 2016 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

What professional value do you bring to your clients’ tables? Execution of strategy focuses your professional activities on creating tangible, measurable value for your company and your customers’ organizations. That concept focuses on economic return on investment, increases in operational efficiency, decreases in waste and defects and increased competitiveness. Where do YOU fit into that… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: core capabilities, core competencies, core values, professional value, value

What are your Simple Gifts?

December 2, 2014 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Simple gifts are your core competencies, your constants. Your simple gifts are the special “something” that you bring to each of your interpersonal interactions, time after time. Everyone has simple gifts. No matter whether you are a student, a business person, a technical or engineering professional. You get the picture, don’t you? Your core capabilities,… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Professional Development Tagged With: core capabilities, core competencies, Do You Mean Business

Why Risk working for Other People?

April 29, 2014 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

What’s the risk involved in being an entrepreneur? Are your core capabilities better suited to working for someone else? Ask yourself these three questions. Determine whether your leadership, as an employee, equates with the risk assumption involved in heading up your own enterprise. Am I willing to assume risk? Are you risk-averse when it comes… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: core capabilities, customer base, risk, risk assumption, small business, solopreneurship, startup

Collaborating with your External Customers

February 4, 2014 by Babette Ten Haken Leave a Comment

Collaborating with external customers involves more than growing a relationship, being empathetic, researching trigger events and becoming their go-to resource. Could there possibly be anything more? Of course you know the answer is: Yes! Collaborating with external customers involves working on their behalf even when the issue on the table doesn’t create business for you…. [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Collaboration And Convergence, Customer Experience, Success, Loyalty, Retention, Human Capital & Industrial IoT Workforce, Professional Development Tagged With: collaborating, core capabilities, external customers, strategic conversation, strategic value

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