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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? Who is responsible for regulatory compliance? And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools?

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Audit software and human monitors were soon installed to assure compliance. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

“First, the costs of compliance with these stress tests and disclosures and new capital rules on banks and other financial firms are extremely high. Ideally, if the need to accumulate more capital is diminished, and the costs of compliance are reduced, there should be some savings passed on to customers in the form of loans.