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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

The same happens when an engineer is tightly managed on their code velocity — in making sure to reach their goal, the engineer becomes far less likely to be creative or raise problems. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Related Video.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. This clean-sheet customer experience prioritization over more traditional call center KPIs had a huge effect.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Some women wanted to advance to senior leadership roles so they could influence business strategy, lead change, and advance the goals and values of the company.

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Three Questions to Consider Before Deciding Where to Locate Your Start-Up

Harvard Business Review

Being disadvantaged in pursuit of your goal is not the same as resigning yourself to failure. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many. billion dollar sale to Oracle. The list goes on and on.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

The goal is simple: put the right people with the right skills in the right work. Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007. So early on, Finance and HR collaborated to simplify the process, reducing the number of data metrics.

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

Strategy Driven

In fact, real AI is mostly applied to business development and science projects where data-driven derivatives and goals are the primary focus of a given strategy. Dick would have us believe. In simple terms, AI applications are primarily focused on gathering, analyzing, and sorting data, much like any other computer program.

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