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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Sonnenberg believes that leaders who have a jaded view of intangible assets will never make the commitment required to reap their full potential. Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals.

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How to Keep Your Team Agile and Aligned Under Pressure

Strategy Driven

You can see this play out in your daily operations and ultimately in the P&L. However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. efficiency).

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Begin with the easy things that you have always tracked — and physical assets such as plant, property, and equipment. The goal is to identify a way that your and your network can create value together, using both your assets and theirs.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets.

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

As banks rush to digitize their operations , many have found that closing their local branches can help maintain a high return on an otherwise pricy transformation. These meetings allowed for the exchange of important information about the business model, intangible assets, future prospects, and more. reduction in a single year.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. 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

Consider the example of a manufacturer of production equipment that collects sensor-based telemetry about its machines’ operations, the status of their parts, their performance, their resource consumption, and other data. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.