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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

Commit to ongoing learning from everyone Research conducted by Richard Boyatzis at Case Western Reserve University highlights the importance of learning in business. He offered to update my uninspiring site at zero cost and designed a website that has consistently maintained a page one search engine ranking in many key phrases.

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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. Visibly demonstrate across the organization the commitment to security.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds. And efficiency in pursuit of decision reached without rigor is just doing the wrong things more quickly.

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Is Your Organization Ready for Total Digitization?

Harvard Business Review

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. News Corp ) commits a firm to local innovation, often organized by products or stand-alone businesses. This approach brings all digitization investments together and places them under a single executive.

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How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand

Harvard Business Review

When I joined in 2007, it was obvious Sephora had the right ingredients to become a world-class digital brand — willingness to take risks, commitment to customers, and passion for educating clients. In 1998, the company launched its website, making Sephora an early player in e-commerce.

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