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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. This example also speaks to the obligation of management and boards to challenge high-performing units as much as they challenge those that are troubled.

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Six lucrative career options for health leadership degree holders

Strategy Driven

As a chief executive officer, you must balance streamlining operations and taking strategic initiatives for long-term success. Healthcare managers work in a hospital or clinics and in all sorts of healthcare organizations. What sets apart an exceptional care facility is efficient leadership or management skills.

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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business Review

While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. And if you end up with a negative ROI, the project is harder to justify on financial terms. Comparing marketing efficiency with competitors. Holding themselves accountable.

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

Harvard Business Review

Unlike the world of the CFO, management and staff generally do what they like when it comes to creating and (not) disposing of information, creating a cavernous gap in accountability. There are no overarching frameworks, few controls, little guidance, no audits, and seldom consequences when staff create and hoard information.

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The Ultimate Productivity Hack Will Be Robot Assistants

Harvard Business Review

developers has long been to help humans be more productive. Suggestion engines that offer alternative terms to help a user find what she is looking for will be a particularly useful aid in efficiency by consistently stimulating our thinking process, ultimately enhancing our creativity, not preempting it. Productivity Technology'

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Seven Tips for Shifting a Mindset in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

To illustrate, let me introduce Samantha Joseph, who works for Iron Mountain Incorporated , a leader in records storage and information management services. Sam didn''t have that long, but she did accumulate enough material to make her the "resident expert." The answer is yes, with some modifications. Align with a metric.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.