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Complimentary Resource – The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward

Strategy Driven

by Ultimate Software. Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Find out how in this quick guide!

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? Our client is a large business software company.

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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern.

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How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices

Harvard Business Review

As the world becomes more digitized, generating more information surrounding products and services and speeding up processes, large and small companies in every industry, even manufacturing, are starting to compete more like the software industry, with short product lifecycles and rapid decision-making. and compete successfully.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

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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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to consumer-facing service industries like e-commerce, media, and ride- or apartment-sharing, it’s not new to suggest that “software is eating the world,” to use the phrase of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen. As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors.