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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

Below are a few examples of how our security team has become a trusted (and well-funded) advisor to our business leaders. If your security team is not yet part of the product development process, start building a partnership with those teams now so that you can approach senior management as part of a business-critical initiative.

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When an Inability to Make Decisions Is Actually Fear of Conflict

Harvard Business Review

It also has a huge impact on cost, productivity, and customer service. If it is, discuss some real examples, how they played out, and the consequences for the company. Decision spin can be incredibly frustrating at all levels of the organization.

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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

People are not given adequate opportunity to provide input, nor educated on the new process and applications they are expected to use, and they blame IT for imposing something on them they do not like. None of these examples are new or different. We see the same mistakes — some subtle, most not so much — over and over.

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Leading by Letting Go

Harvard Business Review

In a customer service center, for example, you would create scripts for every possible interaction. To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. The centers’ high turnover helped him change things on this front pretty quickly.) It depended upon four key elements: A clear goal.

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Charlie Ackerman on Winning A World in Flux

HR Digest

For example, Bosch recently introduced the Virtual Visor product, which helps improve safety for drivers by using a driver-facing camera and a smart flip-down LCD to digitally block sun glare. The goal of this group is to bring awareness, resources, and support to those impacted by a disability. One of our newest BRGs is BeAdept.

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Make It Easy for Decision Makers to Approve Your Deal

Harvard Business Review

For example, The Wall Street Journal might typically report something like the following: “Exxon Corporation has announced that it is moving forward with development of oil fields in Kazakhstan in order to meet the world’s demand for oil.” In other words, addressing the downside is more important than touting the upside.

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Social Means Freedom, for Better or for Worse

Harvard Business Review

Here are two different examples of organizations designed for speed, at least in one part of their business. These experts are highly briefed on the purpose and goals of the SU organization. Model #2 is an example of that. Sometimes lost in that process was the expertise that previously came from experienced in-house employees.