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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). of their portfolio companies. The answer was interesting: “wow, we hadn’t thought about that.&#

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How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader

Skip Prichard

Digital Leadership. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. It was interesting to start writing my book during the longest bull market in American history and then to finish it during the one of the worst economic and health crises in history. You miss a few weeks of news and everything changes.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. In the same way that markets have always outperformed command economies, the transactional efficiencies possibly lost are more than made up for by the ecosystems value effectiveness. The Rise of the CIO.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. Candidates for newly created organization processes include those that are common across business units/markets, that are transactional in nature, and that can be “operationalized.” finance, I.T.,

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