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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities?

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Don’t Play with Dead Snakes, and Other Management Advice

Harvard Business Review

So, it’s not just the fighter, it’s the terrain that they’re on, the market they’re in. If it doesn’t, it’s market research.”. Barksdale: It’s market research, that’s right. One of which was market research. Companies used to spend a ton of money testing products with focus groups and market research teams.

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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. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. That was the challenge.

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

Harvard Business Review

And in the market more broadly, there is a sense that certain kinds of bad assets should be avoided.” Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power. There is a lot of market power for banks over the individual businesses that borrow from them.