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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Business Software

Strategy Driven

Realising What Software Can Do. At the end of the day, computers are dumb, Without input from somewhere, they don’t know what to do because they don’t serve a purpose. You might think about hiring a new employee because it seems like your finance department isn’t being productive enough. Remote Working.

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Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry?

Harvard Business Review

Yet while passively managed, much-lower-cost index funds have been available since 1976, when Bogle — who had a change of heart and, perhaps more to the point, had been ousted from his job running Wellington Management — launched the Vanguard 500 Index Fund , most investors still put most of their money in the hands of active managers.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Is Improving Companies’ Work Processes

Harvard Business Review

Today’s leading organizations are using machine learning–based tools to automate decision processes, and they’re starting to experiment with more-advanced uses of artificial intelligence (AI) for digital transformation. Last year alone saw $5 billion in machine learning venture investment. Related Video.

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Spain Is Now Making Ireland's Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Spain simply cannot do this even if it wanted to: the problem is too big. The parallels between Spain and Ireland are striking. percent to 102.9

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) A few key characteristics distinguish superstar firms from the rest, that perhaps others could learn from. The bottom 10% destroy roughly as much economic value as the superstar firms create.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.