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

Harvard Business Review

By including them in discussions about immediate and long-term business priorities, customer issues, and overall strategies, directors can ensure that the company’s security plan aligns with the company’s business goals. Their job, in fact, depends on it. Insight Center. The Human Element of Cybersecurity. Sponsored by Varonis.

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

Harvard Business Review

Get Started With Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance. Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking. The Apple Maps Debate and the Real Future of Mapping. More >>.

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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

On April 1 of this year, the Department of Defense announced that the US Navy would embark on a strategy to migrate its services to the cloud. When I''m asked to advise people on how they might craft strategies to get to the cloud, I give a four-point overview based on my own experience. Create a long-term flexible strategy.

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IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Let''s say that a company''s sourcing strategy calls it to move all IT requirements to best-of-breed cloud-based providers. It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. The reality is that the organization still requires a strategy for information and systems.

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

Harvard Business Review

The Mississippi-born former IBM salesman, FedEx COO, and CEO of AT&T Wireless and Netscape Communications argues that funny sayings, especially if they involve animals, stick with people in a way that PowerPoint strategy slides usually don’t. Where do you want to be in this strategy? These companies have effectively no capex.

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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. The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have.