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3 Major Challenges Financial Institutions Face When Implementing Business Insight Technology

Strategy Driven

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation.

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How “Strategically Aligned” is your Leadership Development Program?

Great Leadership By Dan

I haven’t – but would really like to , I just wouldn’t know how to. FORGET everything they taught you in that training book you read on “How to conduct a Training Needs Assessment”. These are the big kahunas at the corporate office making decisions about how much to cut your training budget. What’s a C-level executive?

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4 Questions to Ask to Select the Best Executive Search Firm

Great Leadership By Dan

By and large they’ve been surprised to see how differently we evaluate their potential executive search partners than they would. The problem is: many hiring managers just don’t know how to evaluate external recruiters. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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

Harvard Business Review

But while cybersecurity is now on the agenda at board meetings, this doesn’t mean that board members understand how to tackle the issue. After all, most board members have expertise in other forms of risk, and not in how to protect corporate assets from nation-state attackers and highly organized cyber adversaries.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies. If we could spend twice that amount productively, we would happily do so though short-term results would be further penalized.

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7 Principles to Lead with Imagination

Leading Blog

Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. Lead with Imagination he writes is about “how to lead and how to do it with imagination. It is first about how to be, about character, before checklists and a list of to-dos.

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How U.S. Health Care Got Safer by Focusing on the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses.