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Transforming Finance: The Role of a Financial Technology Company in the Digital Age

Strategy Driven

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The finance team in a Health Care Company. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do?

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. Knowledge management Mergers & acquisitions Collaboration Healthcare' But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

Soft-wiring relies on more informal, organic, voluntary, temporary, or one-off instruments, such as an ad-hoc multi-dimensional task force, an annual corporate planning cycle, an advisory council, a central coordination function, or a company-wide knowledge management system. For example, the U.S. Don’t pretend.

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Be Forewarned: Your Knowledge is Decaying

Harvard Business Review

A friend of mine, for example, was speaking recently with an older hedge fund manager who began a story with the following: "Since we all know that there are 4 billion people on the planet." This finance expert is dead wrong — in fact, he's billions of people off (we're now over seven billion). This is a problem.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

The other crucial aspect in which the IOC has reshaped the way in which risk is understood by Olympic organizers is through its attempts to formalize learning between events under its Olympic Games Knowledge Management program.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., Competitors copy or suppliers commoditize to erase these advantages.