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Venture Capitalists Are Looking for Failures

Women on Business

The fact is that businesses will not assume the risks necessary for innovation and development if they’re not ok with the idea of failing on some level. The problem with fearing failure is that you ultimately avoid risk, don’t bet on yourself or your business, and stunt your richest experiences.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

After the initial “quick wins” are wrung from cost-reductions, executives are turning their attention to new ways to innovate using data. Of the executives who report starting such a project, only 40.2% The next phase will be to use data for new products and other innovations. report having success.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Whether it’s called reflection, feedback, or postmortem – debriefing after every project or event is not an option – it’s an imperative! The first of the immediate and tangible benefits of debriefing is that it formally concludes a task or project.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

The lender targeted those customers with more attractive rates—rates that reflected the total life cycle value of these customers—allowing them to grow at a faster pace than peers while keeping losses within acceptable risk levels. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. Marketing Risk management Collaboration'