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Reputation Risk Management Is Vital For The C-Suite

CEO Insider

At a time when corporate leadership is in the crosshairs of investors, regulators, and everyone in between, risk managers are moving from back offices to corner offices and becoming leaders of enterprise-wide strategic teams, supporting the corporate mission by protecting the firms’ intangible assets.

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. Most intangible assets are real but invisible, and the most important invisible ability is the ability (or, perhaps better said, the probability) to collaborate. So, the question is: What are the most critical intangible assets in your company?

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How to Keep Your Team Agile and Aligned Under Pressure

Strategy Driven

However, there is an intangible asset that is very difficult to quantify — but without it you cannot ultimately succeed. This asset is, of course, alignment. Too many leaders assume that just because they have spoken, their teams are all on the same page with them — and everything will proceed from there. efficiency).

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Today, the majority of market value is made up of intangible assets (networks, platforms, intellectual property, customer relationships, big data) more than physical assets. In fact, it’s not even close: intangible assets make up over 80% of the S&P 500’s market value — a complete reversal from 1975.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Begin with the easy things that you have always tracked — and physical assets such as plant, property, and equipment. This will require building out a team, funding them, and giving them a lot of space to learn and change quickly with little bureaucratic oversight. If not, your transformation is sure to stall out.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets. But, as with CFOs before them, the solution resides in CHROs and the teams that support them.

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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Example: Ann just switched to a new CRM platform and has heard from the sales team that it saves time and increases conversion. Evaluate your leadership team’s openness to co-creation as well. The biggest hurdle to co-creation is usually shifting the leadership team’s mental model.

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