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Never Run Out of Money! Use Cash Forecasting to Stay Solvent

Strategy Driven

Cash forecasting can be like a check engine light with premonition for your finances. In 2018, CB Investments did an analysis of 101 failed startup businesses. In addition to keeping you solvent from day to day and year to year, cash forecasting has other benefits, too. Identify Potential Problems Ahead of Time.

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How To Start Your Online Business

Strategy Driven

Map out finances. According to Devrix , in 2018, 6 out of every 10 small businesses didn’t have a business website. And because it lays out a clear vision of success, your business plan can pave the road for growth, helping your startup take off and thrive. Remember that your business plans need to be flexible. Build a website.

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

N2Growth Blog

A growing problem (or opportunity) for learning and development professionals is the finding in HBR’s 2018 study that while 67% of boomers describe current L&D offerings as excellent, only 40% of millennials do. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons.

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Why Skills Are Key If AI’s Potential Is To Be Fulfilled In Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

The Data Literacy Index , published in 2018, rated healthcare as the worst performing sector in terms of data literacy of staff. Data literacy. Arguably a more pressing concern, however, is the lack of fundamental data literacy among the healthcare workforce.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business Review

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. But in 1904, after his first time seeing a car in Flint, Michigan, he was one of the first to see that the future was going to be in a radically new form of transportation powered by internal combustion engines.