CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, long-term business viability depends on it. The hike is long, tiring, and full of obstacles. Bill Gates’ vision for Microsoft (“A computer on every desk and in every home”) would have been a lot less tangible had he written it as: “Becoming a world leader in the software industry.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. According to Williamson, a current concern among many institutional investors as well as corporations is that long-term investments in R&D have little payoff. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” The glacial pace at which banks have moved SME lending online has left them vulnerable.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized. To answer that question, first decide what stage you are in with your data operation, and second ask how vital data is to your product. This includes tools for data lineage and data security.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

In terms of finding the right career, research shows that it’s really hard to predict what you’ll be good at ahead of time, especially just by “going with your gut”, and it turns out career tests don’t work either. It saves a lot of time and heartache in the long run.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The statistics behind these programs indicate promise that graduate schools and other intermediary organizations can make a meaningful difference in not only attracting MBA talent to social sector jobs, but also supporting long-term careers focused on social change. And what does it take to keep them on this path?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Instead, it is a long drive across the entire country that requires a look at the roadmap to avoid the roadblocks while understanding the routes and the detours along the way, long before the drive begins. But, at the same time, what most people learn the hard way is that it is not a short drive in the beautiful countryside.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

IT leaders have long embraced the idea that the role of the IT unit, and of enterprise IT systems, is to enable business. We argue that leaders should stop thinking of IT as Enabling and start thinking in terms of fully Exploiting IT to strategic advantage. The word, Exploit, makes some IT leaders squirm.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Over the years, as I’ve tried to patiently persist and actively trust, I’ve found that God’s plan always unfolds for my long-term benefit, even if things get rough in the moment. So, to last the long haul, you got to love those processes. How exactly?

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It has a lower cost-per-lead-acquisition than paid traffic when viewed over the long-term (2+ years). Neil Patel Neil provides constant value to his readers through amazing long-form content with tons of strategy built into every post. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate. It grows sales.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

And he has assembled a high-powered Western fan club consisting of, among others, Howard Schultz, Bill Gates, and Tony Blair. It describes the country''s successful efforts to build what Porter long ago dubbed "clusters," concentrations of industry and expertise that enable it to build competitive advantage. This, for me, is the focus.

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