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Improving Your ServiceNow Experience with a Planning Roadmap

Strategy Driven

The economy has been affected immensely by technology, as novel innovations have made for new systems within corporations. As the economy has been impacted, one of the greatest changes we have seen is the growth of cloud management products. When building up your ServiceNow infrastructure, it is important to plan and create a roadmap.

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Six Ways to See the World through New Lenses—and Lead More Effectively

Leading Blog

Senior managers at Allianz Global Investors, a global asset management company, attended a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, led by visually impaired trainers who conducted the entire workshop in total darkness. Radjou is an independent strategy consultant and author of the NYT bestseller Jugaad Innovation.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The VC industry has failed to innovate. The business model and economic structure of the VC partnership has remained stagnant for the past two decades. LPs can certainly do a better job of paying VCs to act less like asset managers and more like investors.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

Examples of governance performance include management of the legal and regulatory environment, systemic risk management, and managing conflicts. In our recent HBR article " The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy ," we argue that typically there are tradeoffs between financial and nonfinancial (e.g.,

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Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches

Harvard Business Review

These are just a sample of thoughts from clients in recent months who were excited about the prospect of creating new businesses and new sources of revenue in what seems to be a lucrative new area. Content Innovation. In some cases, they’re right. But then again, in a surprising number of cases, they aren’t.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. The larger trend here is the continued growth of "open" — open data and open innovation, including new value-chain business partnerships and cattle-call contests inviting in any and all ideas.