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How Generative AI Will Transform Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

New generative AI-enabled tools are rapidly emerging to assist and transform knowledge work in industries ranging from education and finance to law and medicine. Companies are starting to introduce generative AI-powered innovations into their processes, and to promulgate policies on how to use the tools safely.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done.

Finance 11
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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

I''m fascinated by how deftly conversations about information growth turn immediately to hand-wringing over how to store and secure it, avoiding the issue of its creation. The time is ripe for CIOs to take a page from the CFOs'' playbook to ensure both accountability and responsibility for information creation.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

And the impact of competitive information on an organization’s decisions is one of those things that can hardly ever be measured. Since impact can’t be measured and therefore results can’t be directly attributed to the competitive information, management resorts to measuring the wrong thing, exactly as Drucker feared.