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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. With cloud implementation you'll be able to go wherever your business takes you by accessing it from different technologies, too. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) South African restaurant chain Ocean Basket also opened in Harare in 2015 to serve the wealthy urban elite. Amid worsening food and foreign exchange shortages, Mugabe ramped up populist policies to please his supporters.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, GE corporate decided to invest $1 billion in the $5.6 They’re now working on version 8, which they will produce in October, and version 10, with better lighting, and there is a design projected for 2015. Vic Roos, Lead Purchasing Program Manager, explained, “We let a finance guy in the room. and compete successfully.

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