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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. But all assets are not created equal, especially as the technological landscape changes. In this business model, you will also both share in the value that your network creates.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? The CHRO must step up to the implications of the new world of work.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

There’s a demand for this type of information, and thus product and market opportunities, but in an information services marketplace where people want everything for nothing, it is not easy to monetize information products. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

There’s a demand for this type of information, and thus product and market opportunities, but in an information services marketplace where people want everything for nothing, it is not easy to monetize information products. In short, from many to one to many. “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”