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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. Heightened expectations of expertise are also part of the picture — for instance, GE’s recent transition from asking executives to focus on breadth to focus on depth.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

But the move to SaaS comes with considerable challenges: Firms will need to change their structure , sales culture, and incentives , and convince existing as well as new customers of the new offering’s value. We identified a total of 359 SaaS product introduction events using the Dow Jones Factiva search tool.