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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? Citibank Asia, which has a strong customer loyalty position in most of its markets, decided to change its operating model to double down on customer relationships to counter locally based competitors.

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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

And yet for almost every company that uses CI in their decision-making, there’s another that disregards CI’s mix of industry analysis, rival positions, and market insight to their detriment. For more than 30 years, most large corporations worldwide have adopted competitive intelligence (CI) as a way to expedite good decisions.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. A company is creating value when its economic profit is positive, and destroying value if its economic profit is negative. We assume long-term companies will invest more and more-consistently than other companies.

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Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

The report finds that investment in technology such as robotics has a greater positive impact on the economy than almost any other form of technology. Indeed, a 1% increase in investment correlates with a growth in GDP per capita of 0.03%. Suffice to say, investment in robotics and automation has not been spread equally around the world.

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

Harvard Business Review

How do you deal with the reality that very large financial firms are riskier and take advantage of their position in the system when you know that ignoring that can cause harm?” And not very much capex , not very much innovation. This is a core dilemma of Dodd-Frank, and all financial regulation.