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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. Another critical piece of the puzzle is acquiring the right capabilities.

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Capitalism’s Future Is Already Here

Harvard Business Review

They constitute a coherent constellation of leadership and management practices, as described by more than a score of books. These problems hardly arose overnight; they began brewing early. However, it was after the advent of the internet that the challenges to the shareholder value maximization became forceful.

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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.

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. We believe that business-friendly candidates could win, but companies should make sure that their Mexico investments have an acceptable rate of return even under this populist scenario. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.