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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 8, 2020

If there is Capex involved, engage early enough the person who will cut the check. Involve trade partners: they will open up more than in your buy meetings. You will find gold. – Dictatorship: someone needs to say yes, in the end. But the dictator’s focus is on results more than money.

Creativity

Creativity CAPEX Wilde Fashion

Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Let's say, for example, that you're seeing a pattern of strong store sales for a group of products that were previously perceived as unrelated.

CAPEX

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software

Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

The report includes case studies for Dow, which also utilized a constructed wetland at one of its facilities, reducing capex expense by a factor of 10. Shell isn’t the only company that discovered the savings from green infrastructure.

CAPEX

CAPEX Cost-Benefit Analysis Construction Cost

Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives. If the chief executive is unmarried, maybe he (or she) is just trying to attract a mate.

CAPEX

CAPEX Scientific Management Taylor Taylorism

IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. They never have! What the cloud does is make the technology-supply side more efficient and perhaps more agile. It may even lead to access to leading-edge technologies.

CIO

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM

Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Directors should make sure that OpEx and CapEx are aligned with risk reduction priorities and projects; security is not done for security’s sake. Ideally, boards should eliminate obstacles that prevent organizations from developing a culture of proactive security. It’s done for the business.

CAPEX

CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term

You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

If asked about cost savings, be ready to deliver your pitch on how you intend to reduce or eliminate capex spending, reduce personnel resources, move services to a pay by month model eliminating long term contracts and ultimately reduce your annual budget by a modest percentage year over year over a 3-5 year period of time.

Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

They were evenly distributed between pursuing opportunities (46%) and reducing risks (44%), and ran the gamut from product pricing and features, capex investments, manufacturing processes, market expansion, joint ventures, M&A, and more.

Competitive Intelligence

Competitive Intelligence Company CAPEX Analysis

Don’t Play with Dead Snakes, and Other Management Advice

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

These companies have effectively no capex. It’s four kids and their laptops, and the entire company is run on the cloud, on Amazon Web Services, on Salesforce.com, NetSuite, and Gmail. It’s literally their laptops and their ramen noodles, and that’s it. And they walk in the door, and sometimes they have five million users in 170 countries.

Advice

Advice Management CAPEX Wireless

Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? None of these are easy questions.

Strategy

Strategy Company Banking Apparel

4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have.

Outsourcing

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage

Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ.

Long-term

Long-term EPS Short-term Management

Do We Need A Recruitment Agency For Robots?

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While the financials of shifting expenditure to the opex budget rather than the capex budget do undoubtedly support adoption from smaller enterprises, the McKinsey findings remind us that there are a broader range of barriers to overcome if the benefits of the latest technologies are to be spread across society.

TCO

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry

What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And not very much capex , not very much innovation. .” The real problem with the economy isn’t too little lending: “We’ve got low interest rates. We’ve [got] growth prospects in the stock market. Dodd-Frank and Dodd-Frank rollback is unlikely to address that.”

Banking

Banking Crisis System Compliance

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