Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2019

There are thousands of cloud apps in existence today and this technology has become a vital part of every enterprise. Forbes conducted a survey in 2016, which found that even the most basic organization was using at least 6 cloud apps. Most popular apps are constructed from existing technology that is combined to create unique APIs.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. These are rich questions that do not yield to simple analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

More than once you’ve probably looked at some new digital or technological development and asked yourself, “How did we miss that?” My 2016 trends offer early warnings and opportunities for managers in all industries. Here are eight to note for 2016. Expect to hear more about “glitches” in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Over the years, there have been numerous efforts, ranging from the Bayh-Dole Act , of 1980, to numerous initiatives to revamp technology transfer offices within government agencies, but nothing really seemed able to speed new discoveries out of the labs and into the marketplace. This, of course, was not an entirely new idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Due to the drop in costs for solar technology and increases in electric utility rates , solar photovoltaic-generated electricity is now less expensive than grid electricity, and adoption is rising rapidly throughout the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

On November 8, 2016, India’s government did something that had no other government had attempted before at the same scale: it decided to remove 86% of the country’s currency notes by value from circulation. Ashima Narula/EyeEm/Getty Images. The country is moving rapidly toward a digital-first economy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. Our study , published in the Journal of Corporate Finance, found that CEOs with strong connections to people of different demographic backgrounds and skill sets create higher firm value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Tesla Motor. Automotive. Alphabet (Google). Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But in 2016 the exchanges will open to companies with 51 to 100 employees. In 2017, they may open up to still larger businesses and to state and local governments.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. The history of internet-based technology platform businesses shows that in the growth phase, rapid losses of position are possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Almost 400,000 Uber drivers in California and Massachusetts reached a $100 million settlement with the company in 2016 (a settlement that was later thrown out by a federal court as insufficient in the compensation it provided the claimants). Payments for the vehicles were then deducted from pay, leaving little in compensation for the workers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. billion in 2016), and Mobileye (the software and chip provider for autonomous vehicles acquired by Intel for $15.3 That, at least, is what the hype around disruption would have you believe. billion in 2017).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale. Not surprisingly, more and more businesses are becoming certified for their social responsibility practices.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B By almost all accounts, companies at the digital frontier such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are investing vast amounts in AI—somewhere between $20 billion and $30 billion alone in 2016. . $5 trillion to U.S. $7 300 billion today.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. ” Immelt notes that success requires GE’s willingness to change on many levels—from recruiting, to customer management, to technology. .” We need to be more like Oracle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

By all accounts, the Chinese state is on all-out drive to move the country up the technological ladder. Yet, along other dimensions, the state is unwittingly hindering China’s emergence as a technological giant. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. About three-fourths of short-term acute-care hospitals lost money treating Medicare patients in 2016, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent agency established to advise the U.S. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. In 2016, 50% of the Executive Medical Directors group were women and 29% of the Health Plan Organization’s C-Suite were women.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Andy, of course, had already shown his interest in academia much earlier by writing a widely used textbook on semiconductor technology and teaching that subject at Berkeley. In January 2016, Andy’s High Output Management was reissued, and Ben Horowitz (who wrote the foreword) organized a small party at his house to celebrate Andy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. ” Senior executives hedge their plans because they don’t trust the numbers from finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. These attacks can bring mission-critical transactional systems in finance, retail, and other industries grinding to a halt, seriously impacting operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The immediate emotional response may be to wait until all the details are available and carefully messaged, but it is negligent to withhold information that could help people keep their data and finances safe. It appears Whole Foods had a plan in place as the company reported its most recent breach five days after detection.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

could harness technologies like 3D printing to build affordable houses faster and cleaner and make them accessible to most Americans. Adding 20,000 new customers a month and with a 97% customer satisfaction rate, Compte Nickel expects to close 2016 with half a million clients.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

and European companies restricting their presence in Iran or exiting the market altogether — and they continue to dampen foreign direct investment prospects in 2016. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions, which were initially enacted in 1979 and strengthened in subsequent years, resulted in many U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The rate of technological innovation, data analysis, and interconnectivity are pioneering new business models, security breakthroughs, and consumer convenience at a dizzying pace. More than this, as we’ve seen from virtually every major disruptive technology, those that act deftly are best placed to benefit.

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