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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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

Harvard Business Review

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Without strong support from executive management and the board, companies are unlikely to develop strong cybersecurity practices.

CAPEX 8
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Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature

Harvard Business Review

They can help us manage rainwater and wastewater. and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs). In all of the completed corporate projects, the green option won out toe-to-toe on capital expenditures and operational expenditures. Is it cost competitive?

CAPEX 10
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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. 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 15
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IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. Unfortunately, we have found that the focus of governance around IT continues to be on the more operational IT issues of delivering technology capabilities and IT services.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

Identity Access Management (IAM) vendors have been forced to consider brokering authentication for Active Directory because companies feel like they must stay on it as an internal authentication platform. These should be rolling strategies that are flexible enough to consider the dynamics of the industries you will operate in.