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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. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

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Six lucrative career options for health leadership degree holders

Strategy Driven

With a leader or proper management, healthcare facilities can avoid becoming chaotic and putting patient care at risk. Career pathways for healthcare leaders There is no denying that healthcare organizations demand well-rounded leaders capable of managing a diverse workforce. Let’s find out.

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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

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. Regulatory requirements for information governance exist for every enterprise.

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The Ultimate Productivity Hack Will Be Robot Assistants

Harvard Business Review

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. developers has long been to help humans be more productive. The future of productivity is coming, and it will rely on Artificial Intelligence. And one of the principle goals of A.I.

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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.

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Seven Tips for Shifting a Mindset in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

But do their methods of idea-spreading apply to the office-dweller, the organizational citizen, the manager or executive? To illustrate, let me introduce Samantha Joseph, who works for Iron Mountain Incorporated , a leader in records storage and information management services. The answer is yes, with some modifications.