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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

As “better, cheaper, faster, smaller, more convenient, and more personalized” became the new norm, the ability to innovate with committed employees and agile processes became critical. They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices, as described by more than a score of books.

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What to Measure If You’re Mission Driven

Harvard Business Review

Instead, its leadership wondered how to gauge the transformation of people that Bacon identified as the real objective. When the All Saints team focused on this, they made the same kind of discovery as many companies that use customer journey maps : people heading toward the same destination don’t always get there by the same path.