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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Ensure that the organization develops and implements a cybersecurity curriculum for all employees. Their job, in fact, depends on it.

CAPEX 8
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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. We all have. Shut down their customer service on weekends?

CAPEX 15
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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. public market capitalization over this period.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

And yet for almost every company that uses CI in their decision-making, there’s another that disregards CI’s mix of industry analysis, rival positions, and market insight to their detriment. and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” And in the market more broadly, there is a sense that certain kinds of bad assets should be avoided.” For more on what the law does, go here.