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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. enterprise systems, data warehouses, cloud, blockchain), but these new systems have missed the mark. Except for very few, this hasn’t happened. Indeed, the cold reality is that for most, progress is agonizingly slow.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balance sheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers). Failure to act may consign many large players to the continuing trust deficit or, worse, irrelevance.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Experiment with the numbers on your organization’s balance sheet by going through a series of “what if?”

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business

Such knowledge does not come easily, but the increasing density of digital information, deeper automated connections across companies, and increased storage and computing power create new options for enterprise leaders. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet.

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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

They belong to a class of small-to-medium German enterprises that are outperforming the country’s top public companies. Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. The company also looks outward for global management development and recruits and deploys up-and-coming managers abroad.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business

And we call this a move from a business enterprise to a social enterprise—one where businesses need to understand what’s happening in the broader society, in their workplace, and with a rapidly changing workforce. Cognitive and AI are really changing the kind of work that employees are doing in the workplace.

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

Harvard Business

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Think of E as Enterprise Value. In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods.