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StrategyDriven Enterprises Partners with Xen Wireless to Form StrategyDriven Analytics, a Utility Industry Asset Management Blind Benchmarking Service

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business Review

Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

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Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT

Harvard Business Review

But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g., online idea markets), the center of expertise for innovation support, and analysis across the enterprise. Improving Operational Efficiency. Participating in Strategy Formulation. IT management Information & technology'

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We Need Both Networks and Communities

Harvard Business Review

Marshall McLuhan wrote famously about the “global village,” created by new information technologies. In the traditional village, you chatted with your neighbor at the local market, face-to-face: this was the heart of community. Especially for operating around the globe, electronic communication has become essential.

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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. We want to participate in U.S. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.”

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Three Examples of New Process Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Chris Plescia, Marketing, Collaboration and Corporate Internet Solutions BSA Leader, told me that they are moving from an information "push" environment — sending out lots of messages on things workers need to know — to a "pull" environment, where workers search for information they need, get answers to questions, or access services.