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Strategies for Successful Business Finance

Strategy Driven

Here, we will delve into some key strategies for successful business finance, highlighting the importance of financial planning, efficient budgeting, smart investments, and risk management. A well-crafted financial plan considers revenue projections, cost estimates, cash flow management, and growth strategies.

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Three Questions You Should Ask About Your Cyber-Security

Harvard Business Review

For their most sensitive projects, they are providing specialized information security training and sometimes investing in technologies such as digital rights management so only authorized personnel can see a product plan, no matter where it's forwarded.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business Review

It could upend supply chains, business models, customer relationships, and even entrepreneurship itself. This will not only challenge tax departments’ current calculations, but will also put increasing pressure on legal departments wrestling with IP asset and risk management.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

His group’s data science, procurement, and supply chain teams crafted algorithmic ensembles that, by all measures and simulations, would save hundreds of millions. Their loyalty and accountability belongs to top management. The Autonomous Outsourcer. Yes, that’s exactly what it meant.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing). Similarly, whether the Brexit vote last June will help or hurt businesses in the UK and EU is still uncertain.

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From BP to Boeing, Supplier Safety Is the CEO's Problem

Harvard Business Review

In this era of complex supply chains and the hiring of expert sub-contractors, taking such responsibility is crucial for preventing events with the potential to adversely affect the corporation and its reputation. In this section (at p.181),

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A CEO’s Guide to Navigating Brexit

Harvard Business Review

Both internal and external factors drive uncertainty about the duration and outcome of the reconstruction challenge — for example, the UK’s ability to negotiate agreements, having outsourced this task to Brussels for 40 years, or trade partners’ willingness to engage with Britain in a constructively and timely manner.