Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The finance sector as we know it is being transformed by new technology. NEX Optimisation are undergoing an ambitious project to use distributed ledger technology to provide a single source of truth regarding financial transactions. This increased understanding could see a demand for a new type of finance team emerging.

Finance 50

Finance Process Influence Innovation 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” She also began paying more attention to projects that would drive future growth.

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S. If you love interacting with others but feel lonely, can you find ways to partner more on projects? What if you’re stuck in a job or a career that you once loved, but your heart isn’t in it anymore? More people fit this profile than you’d think.

Career 14

Career Micromanagement Organizational Behavior Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

Albert DiBernardo, who is now the head of strategy and development for a major engineering firm, told his board three years ago that he’d be retiring at age 65, and in his performance review last year set a specific departure date: December 31, 2017. ” Prepare your marketing. . ” Prepare your marketing.

Consultative 8

Consultative How To Career Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Measuring brand exposure.

Process 11

Process Company Supply Chain Software 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. We helped the leading NGOs start growth projects for their own constituencies.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Adding 600 new customers a day, M-KOPA intends to cross the million-unit mark by the end of 2017. Meanwhile, even middle-class Americans are being priced out of the housing market in states like California, where average low-tier property prices went up by 10% in 2015. housing sector.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

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

Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2018

For example, checking your emails, updating social media, and working on a project will make you feel like you’re busy, but in reality, you’re getting less done than you would when focusing on one project at a time. Your utility bills can be a big drain on your finances if you don’t shop around for the best deals.

Outsourcing 51

Outsourcing Energy Software Credit Scoring 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. Integrate your marketing efforts with sales activity. PM Images/Getty Images.

CRM 11

CRM Project Succession CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. For example, the cryptocurrency used for the Ethereum network, called Ether , saw its value double in just a few days in March 2017. Insight Center.

Venture Capitalist 11

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Business-to-consumer subscription businesses have attracted more than 11 million U.S.

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

In 2017 women make up 25% of senior executives in the thousands of companies covered by the survey. And it varies by role, too: Grant Thornton’s survey shows that women are more likely to be the head of a function like HR (23% of CHROs) or finance (19% of CFOs) than CEO (12%), something other studies have also found.

Execution 9

Execution Company Chief Executive Officer Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. On July 1, 2017, all of those seventeen taxes were subsumed into one tax: the GST. A year later, after demonetization, the same system is processing 76 million transactions per month.

Banking 14

Banking Long-term Short-term System 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 The score assigned to this component is an aggregate of scores earned by different clusters of inclusion-related indicators; the clusters that make up inclusivity are labor market inclusion, economic mobility, diversity and acceptance, and policies that promote inclusion.

Benchmarking 9

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 9