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Google Restructures Finance Organization to Prioritize AI Investments

CEO Insider

In a memo circulated on Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat unveiled Google’s plans to restructure its finance organization, signaling a strategic shift towards prioritizing investments in artificial intelligence (AI). Copyright CEOWORLD magazine 2023.

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What It Takes To Turn Your Failing Business Around

Strategy Driven

To get their interests and commitment back to where it was before (or even a notch higher), you must engage them fully. Perhaps, finance is an issue, and paying for their training isn’t a feasible idea. According to entrepreneur.com, 70% of business failures are primarily finance-based. Be receptive to innovative ideas.

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Transforming Finance: The Role of a Financial Technology Company in the Digital Age

Strategy Driven

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Conversely, superior user experience designs frequently inspire insight into innovative use-case opportunities.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Then came sales forces, finance departments, and R&D labs—including the original labs of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.

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What Happens If Apple Starts Making Cars

Harvard Business Review

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. They should. Could Sir Jonny Ive be the next Battista Pininfarina , Harley Earl, or Akihiro Nagaya ?