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5 Ways Smart Startup Founders Strategically Manage Operating Capital

Strategy Driven

And with financing being one of the primary reasons startups go under, the right strategy needs to involve improving upon your operating capital. What Is Operating Capital? Sometimes called “working capital,” operating capital is the sum of a business’s current assets minus its current liabilities.

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Why Startups Fail: Six Issues to Avoid

Leading Blog

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. But they are more likely to boost the odds of failure by creating yet one more serious problem for management to deal with. T HE FACT IS most startups fail. It is easy to blame the founders.

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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. Promises made by your technology partner, such as increased analytics capabilities and improved compliance with regulators, are probably at the top of your mind.

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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

In the same way, digital disruption is not about the technology as much as it is about how companies can make their way through the new competitive environment they find themselves in. Digital disruption is more about the people than it is the technology. The authors introduce the concept of digital maturity.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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

Harvard Business Review

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. That’s still true.

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Prepare Your Workforce for the Automation Age

Harvard Business Review

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. In the middle office, risk and compliance management will largely watch bots that are not prone to human error or fraud, supported by sophisticated models to predict quality and compliance issues.