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How Companies Can Champion Sustainable Development

Harvard Business

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. The problem is that the private sector is not easily organized to create or bolster public goods.

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Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Tom Spencer

In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all. Jason Oh is a Senior Manager at TD Bank’s Enterprise Strategy team.

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Consultant Ninja: Booz & Company consultant-ese: Management.

Consultant Ninja

I hope not all of Booz & Companys insights are as ridiculous as this: Firms everywhere can learn much from companies in developing economies that are leveraging the Internet to increase competitiveness and develop strategic partnerships globally. Booz & Company consultant-ese. Related Posts. 1 comment: univ. Love your post.

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Why Every Company Should Consider Creating a “Cyber No-Fly List”

Harvard Business

The Transportation Security Administration’s machines, checkpoints, and rules are analogous to many of the security devices that enterprises use, which include network monitoring tools, firewalls, and endpoint management systems. A large enterprise easily records over 1 billion network and system events per day.

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Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?

Harvard Business

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. Perhaps not surprisingly, American Airlines leads in magnitude for U.S. airlines — but not by as much as you would think. Digital share.

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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

I was buried in the enterprise.” I’ll let you in on the six-step technique I have developed over many years, working with clients and in teaching my public seminars on strategic planning. ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. But methods can be learned.

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The Barriers to Recruiting and Employing Digital Talent

Harvard Business

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live.

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