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When It Pays to Think Like a Finance Manager

Harvard Business Review

Most finance managers in both large and small businesses encounter numerous proposals for capital investments and many of the people proposing these investments don’t have a clear picture of what the return will be. Everyone always wants new equipment — new computers or other hot technologies. Finance & Accounting Tool.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Create a knowledge management system. Triage the failures.

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