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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. and cybersecurity are the people, policies, and processes that make up the culture and collective mindset of a business organization. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Day-to-Day Stuff Done

Harvard Business Review

Many of the most successful people had to fight tooth and nail for opportunities to learn new skills and advance up the corporate ladder. You’re not cut out for engineering. This new reality, in which developing talent is a key business imperative, requires real buy-in from top brass in your company, all the way up to the CEO.

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Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic

Harvard Business Review

On a 1-5 scale (where 1=Strongly Agree; 2=Agree; 3=Neither Agree nor Disagree; 4=Disagree; and 5= Strongly Disagree), rate the thinking of your company's key decision-makers on the following statements, then add up the total of all 10 items. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

Now it’s much more bottom-up because you have to experiment, you have to do things that are relevant in the field. But if middle managers wind up caught in bureaucratic procedures and rule-enforcement mindsets, implementations will falter. The urgency has to come from inside the individual instead of top management.”

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Digital is something quite different: it How do we get hundreds or thousands of people to come up with thousands of ideas and decisions with little physical manifestation (software), and align all into a single solution that runs and meets valuable needs? The hierarchical and process-driven methods of the past won’t work well.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

At the time, it served an important role, and that was to create a start-up within an established company. And because of that, we’re far better set-up for success. We’re lucky to have an amazing CTO with a deep knowledge of e-commerce and strong desire to partner with the business, and a strong team behind him.

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