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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. So how can you chart the shortest, surest path to success? These from/to statements are real examples from successful executives who made tremendous progress once their needs were made this clear.

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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

If the finance person frets about keeping expenses under control, discuss expense numbers,” says Sheen. “If You can then salt their recommendations into your presentation, which will increase their investment in your success. And in short order, the company achieved consistent double-digit sales growth — and a successful IPO.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Sales, as well as Production and Quality all produced large amounts of data that could be interesting for data science pilot projects. Key Success Factors. In particular, we found three more ingredients to be crucial to the data lab’s success: Executive support. ” Domain experts.

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