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Is Your Organization Digitally Mature?

Leading Blog

Only by fundamentally changing the way the organization works—through flattening hierarchies, speeding up decision making, helping employees develop needed skills, and successfully understanding both opportunities and threats in the environment—can an organization truly adapt to a digital world. Digital Maturity.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Crowdfunding Your Company

Steve Farber

” But as anyone who’s ever tried to finance their great idea knows, the money still needs some help leaping into your bank account so you can put it to work. If enough people give even a little, the startup can bank what it needs to get rolling. They’re securing equity.

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest. At a meeting with a large bank, one of the senior executives said, “You know we have a problem that’s really giving us trouble.

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Companies Are Reimagining Business Processes with Algorithms

Harvard Business Review

Managers noted historical trends and revised processes, and engineers developed code that was then baked into computing systems. In our study of more than 30 pilots in early-adopter companies, we found five common business processes improved by machine-reengineering. Then, reengineering was limited by the speed of humans.

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Cascades: 6 Principles for Creating Transformational Change

Leading Blog

The alternative you present must be better not just for the believers but for those outside the early adopter group. Yet that wasn’t a value, it was an early manifestation of a value. In the early days, many of IBM’s customers were banks, so IBM’s salespeople dressed to reflect their customers.

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The Best Digital Companies Are Set Up to Never Stop Innovating

Harvard Business Review

Virtual financial services firms such as Wealthfront and Betterment are siphoning investments from established banks through a great mobile app and a website. Large decreases in costs by eliminating the waste of fully developing features that fail in the market. Improvements in quality, reductions in errors, and greater reliability.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. In 2010, J.P