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How Can You Manage Your Small Business Finances More Effectively Using Loans?

Strategy Driven

There are a few different types of loans you might need to consider, and they can help you to fund your business correctly early on and encourage you to make the best financial decisions possible. Why Are Loans Vital to Small Businesses? Business loans are an option available to businesses to help with finances.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

With increasingly vast bodies of knowledge about experiences, one can see how business Intelligence, with enough computing power, became Artificial Intelligence. He thought in broad terms about what human beings might do with powerful new tools, and went about creating them. No driver necessary. Same for Elon Musk.

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Lost in Translation

Strategy Driven

It means distilling raw information into a “story” about our customers, our business growth levers, and the business challenges we face – all with a view of moving the business forward. SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ®. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com.

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5 of the Most Useful AI/Machine Learning Tools for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Over the past few years, the power of machine learning and AI has become a viable tool in business development because of the analytical and data processing capabilities of modern hardware and accompanying software tools. Both of these are focused on business intelligence and deep learning with traditional ML at their core.

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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference. Chief Operating and Finance Officers side-step this issue given the broader power-base of their positions.).

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. They're simpler to implement than their enterprise-wide counterparts and business people see them as worthwhile and cost-effective.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business Review

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. CRM is an important tool, but it is just a tool.

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