Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. For example, one senior VP of HR at Adobe eliminated the need for employees to produce performance reports, allowing them to devote their time to something more productive instead.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2021

A perfect example of this is ENTRUM, or the Youth Entrepreneurship Ideas Contest and Development Programme. The startup visa program has been somewhat more successful, with 226 startups registered from the 697 founders approved by the scheme since it was launched in 2017. ” Broad horizons.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

However, one of the least considered points that many business owners overlook is the way they utilise technology. Common Examples of Underutilisation. This can, of course, be done with other office programs , but it’s a good example of how even a free piece of software contains unique features that are often underutilised.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 29, 2017

Gathering the required data is the first step to improving many areas of business, and finances are definitely no exception. This is easier than ever with cloud computing and portable technology. But a lot of business owners prefer non-formal methods of training; being guided by a fellow employee, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Buoyed by low-margin structures and new technological architectures that could support lower costs, the competitors that entered your industry were able to take more and more market share — eventually convincing even your best customers to embrace their products and services. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. Fortunately, in December of 2017 GE’s board downsized from 18 members to 12. The Board Had No Finance Committee.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. health care system. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Here are some concrete examples of how AI and machine learning are creating value in companies today: Personalizing customer service. Automating finance. Measuring brand exposure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. Almost 50% of recent technology listings have a dual-class status.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In 2017, as the Trump administration began, CEO activism has surged. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) The technology sector takes the lead. The technology sector has been the front-runner in terms of speaking out on these five issues. ” 2. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. ” Like many of the CMOs described in the 2017 article, she was initially hired to focus on downstream commercialization roles, such as overseeing advertising.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A new generation of philanthropists, whose wealth was created via entrepreneurship in technology-driven fields, has the unique opportunity to make a real difference in speeding the pace of progress in the fight against cancer. By 2017, that number had increased to 34% and is heading to over 40% this year. Luxy Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Hostility to the internet appeared the moment the Web became a commercial technology , threatening from the outset to upend traditional businesses and maybe even our deeply-embedded beliefs about family, society, and government.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Trade barriers also block competition: For example, Chinese electric carmakers must use batteries made in China and can’t purchase them from Japanese and Korean sources. withdrew from TPP in January 2017. negotiators.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images. Progress on resolving these issues will be slow and incremental. dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible. Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. A hospital, for example, might stress medication safety and hand hygiene, while a nursing home might focus on understanding the vulnerabilities of the elderly and end-of-life care. Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. A 2017 survey by Kronos and Future Workplace , reveals that the restructuring of work has resulted in significant burnout.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare. Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. housing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. The structured interviews were conducted by me over the phone, Skype, or in person, between February and June 2017.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization. Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Given that we are expecting continued emerging market currency depreciation (and a gradual devaluation of the Chinese yuan as the Central Bank of China seeks to maintain China’s export competitiveness), this issue is going to be a significant problem for multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2017, and possibly beyond.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Many established firms— a 2017 Deloitte survey suggested about 20% in the U.S.—are Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. We also must reduce spending on our exchange by almost 80% between state fiscal years 2015 and 2017. Technological challenges. Technological problems have, in many cases, strained the customer experience.

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