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5 Ways Your Data Strategy Can Fail

Harvard Business

Paradoxically, “data” appear everywhere but on the balance sheet and income statement. Organizational capabilities include talent, structure, and culture. Structure and culture are also a concern. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. It takes a lot to succeed with data. Insight Center.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business

Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5 Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. times global GDP).

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Harvard Business

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. If there are debts owed by each organization, then the M&A process may increase the total balance sheet debt of the combined company. Conclusion.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Different companies can pursue quite different platform strategies based on what kinds of capital they choose to network together. Intellectual capital. Consider the different paths of Waze and Google Maps as mobile apps.

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Create More Management Transparency

Johanna Rothman

They create and refine the organizational culture to free the teams to solve those problems. We need to understand our organizational constraints—the policies, procedures, and everything else that creates our culture. Some people don't know how to read a balance sheet. What do technical teams do? Don't keep secrets.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

That's a cultural change to self-managing teams. That's why we need managers to understand how to create and cultivate an agile culture. Managers Create and Refine the Culture. When I talk about culture, I mean the ideas from Edgar Schein's work about organizational culture and leadership : How we treat each other.

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