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The Important Reasons Why You Need an API Integration Platform

Strategy Driven

It helps in better time management, as hours can be spent fixing, overseeing, managing, and creating APIs, instead of anything else. It helps develop stacks but also allows non-technical teams to manage and create APIs as well. So how did these corporations manage to build such widely successful apps with small teams?

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Is #MeToo Backlash Hurting Women’s Opportunities in Finance?

Harvard Business Review

When my mother graduated from college in 1972, she interviewed at an investment bank where a manager told her that for certain positions, women were interviewed but never hired. I’ve also heard from male fund managers that they didn’t want to take on the “risk” of hiring a woman in their small shops.

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8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016

Harvard Business Review

My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. ” 2016 will bring a host of creative bots that will supercharge our productivity, keep us company, and help us track what others are doing. HR managers can use bots to train employees.

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

Periscope is creating entirely new expectations around media consumption. If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully

Harvard Business Review

A strong, transparent, and trust-driven culture plays a central role in driving a scale-down decision and in managing the process as the it unfolds. Home Run Media’s Turning Point. Home Run’s media billings and its revenue, took off, growing more than tenfold in less than two years. He wanted out.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

In September 2016 we undertook a survey of nearly 300 endowment and foundation managers. Given their size and appetite for diversification, these gigantic investors are a significant source of financing for many companies and governments in the developed world, and their investment activities can and do move markets.