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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level. Cut layers.

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Case Study: How to Integrate an Acquired Brand

Harvard Business Review

Later that afternoon Annabel Howard, Beacon''s CFO and Henry''s boss, leaned back in her chair. "I''m I have no interest in creating an unwieldy bureaucracy. Managing multiple brands, running separate IT systems, setting different price structures — it would be a mess.". A Third Opinion. He leaned across the desk.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.