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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

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs). In all of the completed corporate projects, the green option won out toe-to-toe on capital expenditures and operational expenditures. Power consumption and CO2 emissions were reduced by 98%, which lowered operating expenses dramatically.

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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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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

If asked about cost savings, be ready to deliver your pitch on how you intend to reduce or eliminate capex spending, reduce personnel resources, move services to a pay by month model eliminating long term contracts and ultimately reduce your annual budget by a modest percentage year over year over a 3-5 year period of time.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.