Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Resources KPI Strategy White Paper 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The $50 billion to be divested is a drop the fossil fuel market’s bucket, but to the much smaller clean tech market it’s a tidal wave. If the divestment movement can reallocate capital toward clean technology companies, that could have a far greater impact on mitigating climate change than divestment alone.

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Venture Capitalist How To Energy Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. LPs would pay VCs well, through carry, when they do what they say they will: generate great returns in excess of the public markets.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths.

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Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

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Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together. You won’t have a lot of money.

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. million as of 2013. Some MMOG professional teams players can command six figure salaries, thanks to the finance provided by corporate sponsorships and advertising. Welcome to the brave new world of e-Sports.

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Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. By serving the price sensitive market, Apple will grow its business with new early-bird customers. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone.

Price 8

Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. SMB Specialization. Field Sales Revenue Trends.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As Pew Internet reports : Young adults: 50 percent of teen smartphone owners, aged 12-17, say they use the internet mostly on their cell phone, according to a 2013 Pew Internet report on Teens and Technology. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

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Content Audience Marketing Strategy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. 132 characters for Goldman; one giant leap for the Twitterverse.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk. After all, when HR people routinely talk to finance staff, they are effectively working as members of a cross-functional team.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” They’ve also characterized the San Francisco Bay area’s real estate market over a far longer period. Yet neither has collapsed.

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Price Finance Definition Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. In 2013, the multinational contract manufacturer Flextonics — which makes products for Apple and Microsoft — began offering Lab IX , a service that connects startups with manufacturing partners.

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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. will grow to U.S. $5 5 trillion to U.S. $7 ZB by 2020.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Adesina’s success in applying market mechanisms to create widespread opportunity lead Forbes to name him African of the Year in 2013. . “I see the sparkle in the eyes of a few.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Will they work or won’t they?

Insurance 9

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Just a couple of weeks ago, BuildDirect received $30 million in additional financing led by Venture Capital firm Mohr Davidow. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. But once IDEO grew to hundreds of Palo Alto employees, even Kelley couldn’t sustain the intimacy.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. points in October 2010 to 737.3

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. So find them, ask questions, and let them help you.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Or pay a freelance consultant to do market research? ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. They “carved out time on nights and weekends” to do research and market analysis. For instance, can you hire someone to help you code? Patch weak spots.

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Project Outsourcing Learning-by-Doing Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11