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Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. Read more from DXC Technology: Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. That’s still true. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Systems are implemented to support local initiatives.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.” Some argued that merely keeping pace with industry and market changes is inadequate; an executive must anticipate change.

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Research Shows Immigrants Help Businesses Grow. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business Review

Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance. Growth demands that businesses view change as imperative, not optional. They orient their firm around the needs of their home market alone.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor

Harvard Business Review

There are two reasons such a flexible work system is now plausible. The second is technology. As a result, we expect to see America’s leading companies leveraging what Mark Cuban calls the “spot market for intellect” for an increasing share of their needs. The first is societal values.

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Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking

Harvard Business Review

At Techonomy, Ranadivé made his math-is-trumping-science comments after recommending that the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets monetary policy in the U.S., be replaced with a computer program. As best I can tell, there are three hypotheses inherent in this replace-the-Fed-with-algorithms-plan. The first is that you can build U.S.

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