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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Ensure that the organization develops and implements a cybersecurity curriculum for all employees. Their job, in fact, depends on it.

CAPEX 8
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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. It might take a scorecard approach for you to figure out that the sales peak coincided with a particular phase in the staff-training schedule.

CAPEX 15
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Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. Here’s one of the more compelling examples highlighted in the paper: One of Shell’s joint ventures, Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO), uses constructed wetlands to treat produced water from oilfields. PDO’s extraction activities produce a lot of oily water as a by-product.

CAPEX 10
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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

Identity Access Management (IAM) vendors have been forced to consider brokering authentication for Active Directory because companies feel like they must stay on it as an internal authentication platform. The last bit of wisdom is to develop the most thorough 1-, 3- and 5-year cloud strategy that you can put down.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

We recently conducted a survey of CI managers and analysts who’ve been through our training program to see how much their findings influenced major company decisions, and why. and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields.