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Understanding the Role of Technology in Growing Your Business

Strategy Driven

The secret to ticking all of these boxes and optimizing the potential for business growth lies in investing in the right technology. Financial management is arguably the most vital operational aspect of any establishment. The right marketing technology can help a business to reach its full potential. Inventory management.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done.

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How Generative AI Will Transform Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

New generative AI-enabled tools are rapidly emerging to assist and transform knowledge work in industries ranging from education and finance to law and medicine. Generative AI can be a boon for knowledge work, but only if you use it in the right way. However, there is no need to wait for these externally-imposed changes.

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Moving from Transaction to Engagement

Harvard Business Review

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. You know them as ERP, finance and accounting systems, or even payroll. Factor in new types of information management.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. That''s a lot of money for digging through old e-mail. How did we get here?

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.