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Small Business Cash Flow Management: Why It’s Important and How to Deal With Problems

Strategy Driven

Manage emergencies – You never know when disaster might strike; having enough in the bank to cover emergency kit repair, economic downturns, and other unforeseen circumstances is vital. Not holding enough reserves – You should always aim to have cash in the bank to cover at least three to six months of expenses. Net income.

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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

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Let Algorithms Decide – and Act – for Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. If you start seeing everything through the impact investing lens, it starts looking like you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. We don’t want to go there. It’s more filling in these gaps where capitalism as currently practiced doesn’t quite get to it.