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The Right Way to Cut Costs

HR Digest

As HR leaders, managing budgets and finding ways to cut costs without compromising employee satisfaction and productivity can be a daunting task. By implementing these strategies, you can effectively manage your budget while maintaining a high-performing and satisfied workforce.

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Transforming Finance: The Role of a Financial Technology Company in the Digital Age

Strategy Driven

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. Efficient workflows help you maintain consistent work quality, reduce waste, and maximize profits. In that case, the company still needs to be more efficient.

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Technology Questions Every CMO Must Ask

Harvard Business Review

Marketers today encounter a mind-boggling array of technologies. CMOs I talk to are swamped by meeting requests from technology vendors, and most feel an acute pressure to climb on the tech bandwagon. My colleagues and I believe CMOs can make better technology sourcing decisions by asking five fundamental questions.

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Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies

Harvard Business Review

Town hall meetings are organized, employees are told to change their behavior, balanced scorecards are reformulated, and budgets are set aside to support initiatives that fit the new strategy. A common mistake in the bottom-up implementation process is that many top managers cannot resist doing the selection themselves.

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How to Get Employees to Stop Worrying and Love AI

Harvard Business Review

However, after being given the reins on budgeting and buying decisions, Maister saw his decisions were degrading results. Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. The vendor scrambled to give him the controls he wanted. ​He scrambled to derail consideration of the new system.

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. Organizational leaders are often unfamiliar with advanced analytics technology and applications. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)

Harvard Business Review

Leadership is uplifting, they imply, while management is boring — just a bunch of rigid bureaucrats spinning red tape, or emphasizing efficiency over effectiveness. They care about efficiency. But my work with numerous top executives shows that this is a false choice. Great leaders also have managerial inclinations.