Harvard Business Reviewflipped into All Stories6 hours agoA Unified Enterprise Performance Management Platform Can Help Your Finance Team Make Real-Time Decisions - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM WORKDAY DELOITTEverified_publisherHarvard Business ReviewMost organizations are in a state of perpetual motion, and their finance operations reflect that. With business constantly changing, the most successful enterprises are those with finance teams that can quickly respond to change and seize new opportunities. For a finance team to manage continual …
Harvard Business Reviewflipped into All Stories10 hours agoWhy Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Strategic Choiceverified_publisherHarvard Business Review - Steve DennisIn the current era of digital disruption, the pace of change has dramatically accelerated, leaving traditional risk management wisdom lacking. Across a variety of industries, technology-enabled disruptors have changed the rules. Many brands that moved cautiously have dramatically increased their …
Harvard Business Reviewflipped into All Stories9 hours agoGetting Your Company’s Data Program Back on Trackverified_publisherHarvard Business Review - Thomas C. RedmanMany senior managers find themselves wondering: If data is such a game changer, why is it so hard to extract any value from it? For companies struggling to actually see results from their data program, it might be time to make a fresh start. There are three important issues managers need to …
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Harvard Business Reviewflipped into All Stories1 day agoHow a Generic Marketing Strategy is Captivating Consumers on the Values of Natural Diamonds - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM NATURAL DIAMOND COUNCILverified_publisherHarvard Business ReviewSome of our culture’s most influential advertising campaigns have come not from individual brands but from product categories. Since the 1950s, when tea and butter producers consolidated their resources to compete for coffee and margarine consumers, generic category marketing has raised the profiles …
Harvard Business Reviewflipped into All Stories1 day agoWhy Isn’t Your Strategy Sticking?verified_publisherHarvard Business Review - Andrea Belk OlsonIt’s insufficient to just share the goals and objectives of your strategy and hope implementation will succeed. In this article, the author explains how to shift from an operational to a contextual mindset so that you can better identify the hidden obstacles that may be thwarting your strategy’s …