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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

And yet for almost every company that uses CI in their decision-making, there’s another that disregards CI’s mix of industry analysis, rival positions, and market insight to their detriment. and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. That was the challenge.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. public market capitalization over this period. These indicators and hypotheses were: Investment: The ratio of capex to depreciation.

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

Harvard Business Review

And in the market more broadly, there is a sense that certain kinds of bad assets should be avoided.” There is a lot of market power for banks over the individual businesses that borrow from them. We’ve [got] growth prospects in the stock market. And not very much capex , not very much innovation.