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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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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games." Since the 1980s, however, Games organizing committees have increasingly invested in teams and systems dedicated to the management of risk through internal controls.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations.

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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. When a request arose for a new service that was not operational within our own system (e.g., Knowledge management Mergers & acquisitions Collaboration Healthcare'

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

Generating new knowledge by conducting research, benchmarking, or bringing in “resident” artists or scientists whose interactions with employees can spark creativity. At multiple levels in the organization, key personnel are responsible for such capabilities and hold much of the know-how in their heads.