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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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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. His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions.

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

Harvard Business Review

He talked about the boat men of the SEAL teams, and how it was not necessarily the biggest guys who could get the boat out and back as quick, but the smaller men who just had more heart. Companies used to spend a ton of money testing products with focus groups and market research teams. These companies have effectively no capex.

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