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Understanding the Role of Technology in Growing Your Business

Strategy Driven

Financial management is arguably the most vital operational aspect of any establishment. Your employees are your most valuable resource, hence the reason why it makes the world of difference when you put in extra effort into the hiring process and into keeping your existing staff happy. Read on for the details.

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How Generative AI Will Transform Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

New generative AI-enabled tools are rapidly emerging to assist and transform knowledge work in industries ranging from education and finance to law and medicine. Companies are starting to introduce generative AI-powered innovations into their processes, and to promulgate policies on how to use the tools safely.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. I didn't get it.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Moving from Transaction to Engagement

Harvard Business Review

You know them as ERP, finance and accounting systems, or even payroll. Factor in new types of information management. Engagement systems are powered by business rules and complex event processing engines. It's part of a shift from transactional systems to engagement systems. Rely on smarter intelligence.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

I believe the driving factor for these failures is that many projects are conceived and scoped only to address a symptom, rather than the disease of too much information. Patchwork attempts to mitigate or repair our broken information management processes do not get to the core of the issue.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. At least four proposals to reform it have recently surfaced, and USCIS has suspended expedited processing of H-1B applications. But in April, just after U.S.