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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. I observed that leaders often treat security as a liability cost — until the company experiences a security breach, after which increased support is a given. This isn’t the case.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

The vast majority of physician visits in Qatar end up costing a lot because they’re with specialists, and the remedy proposed often involves hospital stays and procedures. All of this requires a better understanding of how health transactions work and how much they cost. They are fix-what’s-broken visits.

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There Are 4 Futures for CMOs (Some Better Than Others)

Harvard Business Review

Most marketers recognize that marketing is much more than running campaigns and managing brand identity. CMOs need to define a broader vision for marketing as the orchestrator of the customer experience and prove that marketing is not a cost center but a revenue generator.

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Charlie Ackerman on Winning A World in Flux

HR Digest

We’ve had the opportunity to interview Charlie Ackerman who provided some illuminating insights on how Bosch is equipped to drive change in its workforce, and what lessons have been reinforced over the past year to help the innovation engine become future ready. . How are you going to shake things up next?

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.