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Steps in a Buying Decision

Strategy Driven

Determine if it’s possible to fix what you’ve got (to save the time, money, human capital) or figure out how to work with the internal Tech folks if absolutely necessary. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). Majority decides to use vendors to do all the work rather than in house, but need buy-in from CFO.

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How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive

Harvard Business Review

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Agapol Na Songkhla – Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President of Human Capital Group at Thai Beverage (ThaiBev). Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Alex Osterwalder – Co-founder Strategyzer. Faculty of Columbia Business School. Entrepreneurs.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. Financial capital is assumed to be virtually unlimited, while certain types of human capital are in short supply.

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

She changed industries from private equity investing to technology; she changed geographies by moving from New York to San Francisco; and she changed functions from M&A and investing to HR. “I was surprised by how much I personally enjoyed running the HR function versus taking on a CFO role,” said Reses.

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The Bias Undermining Your People Analytics

Harvard Business Review

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another. There is a better way.

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Balancing Parenting and Work Stress: A Guide

Harvard Business Review

Over the past decade of leading human capital, diversity, and retention efforts in several demanding U.S.-based The same kind of technologies that enable you to compete at work — the calendars, the shared work tools — should be used at home. ” Have a Plan B — and don’t wait for a crisis to use it.

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