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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal. o Develop your subject matter expertise through social media, community organizations and board positions.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Consider how USAA – the nation’s 6 th largest consumer P&C insurer – has reinvented how marketing, finance and data analytics work together, starting with a first-ever partnership between the CMO, CFO and Chief Data Analytics officer.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Overly simplistic notions – “the people who do the advertising”– were based on stereotypes that never accurately reflected the range of responsibilities that many CMOs had. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful. The CMO role is undergoing a renaissance.

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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

All too often companies misunderstand the value of their cybersecurity teams and underfund their development. Security teams have to take an active role in protecting the company as products are being developed; patching security holes in products after they’re out in the world is important but not enough. Insight Center.

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What Is a Business Model?

Harvard Business Review

They are about technology and its dynamics, about a company’s strengths and weaknesses.” ” Firmly in the “a business model is really a set of assumptions or hypotheses” camp is Alex Osterwalder, who has developed what is arguably the most comprehensive template on which to construct those hypotheses.