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Balancing Profit and Purpose with Your Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

In response, the company proposed implementing a “KPI butterfly” to balance doing well (making money) against doing good (protecting society) as part of its digital transformation process. Its success offers other legacy companies lessons in how to navigate this process.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants. First: Market share is a dangerous key performance indicator (KPI). However, they are not as strategic in their thinking about how to capture value.

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Organizational Performance Measures – System Implementation Challenges

Strategy Driven

Consequently, there are often many people, process, and technology challenges associated with the implementation or significant upgrade of such monitoring systems. Technology Related Challenges. There does not exist a single, organization-wide application for collection of non-system related data needed to generate metrics and reports.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. The technology held appeal for network engineering departments at both telecom providers and digital service providers. Digital technology — and its post-industrial pervasiveness — clearly and convincingly disrupts the legacy economics of innovation partnerships.

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Strategic Planning Steps

CO2

It’s better to explore many possible outcomes, barriers, and opportunities, and pre-decide how to act should key assumptions come to pass. You’ll know how to act no matter what the future holds. Agree upon what data to collect, how to collect it, and how to use it. The more democratic the process, the better.