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Platforms Are the New Foundation of Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

Reinventing corporate IT requires recognizing deep differences between what we have today and what we need in the future. Infrastructure and substructure support the information, processes, applications, rules, and channels that are the face of corporate IT.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

But David Ginsberg, VP, Corporate Insights, Brand and Strategy, saw the potential for analytics to create a bridge between marketing and finance by illuminating marketing’s impact on sales – the focal point of where marketing and finance meet. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

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The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before Revolution

Harvard Business Review

But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. A puzzling customer insight bothered the company’s executives. The company’s existing sales methods couldn’t handle these special requests. Insight Center. Unbundling Existing Value Propositions.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings. I see HR as a function that provides frameworks and supports internal clients just as corporate IT and accounting do. Im sick about it. I doubt it.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." And maybe its too busy. Lets face it.

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How Amazon Adapted Its Business Model to India

Harvard Business Review

Insight Center. Sellers send their goods to Amazon’s fulfillment centers and pay a fee for the corporation to store, pick, pack, and ship their wares. When Amazon decided to enter the Indian e-commerce market, it was clear from the outset that something would have to give. Amazon.com debuted as an online bookstore in 1994.