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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Within the core business, digital technologies are fundamentally changing the way Honeywell creates and captures value for its industrial customers through new efficiencies and services that unlock new value.

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A Look into Microsoft’s Data-Driven Approach to Improving Sales

Harvard Business

Based on this finding, we initiated a program to coach our sales teams to focus on efficiently building and growing their internal and external networks. Deeper analysis showed that investing more time and energy into partnering with some of these lower growth accounts could improve them.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. Cable companies enviously and despairingly benchmark Netflix and Amazon to learn how they quasi-autonomously cultivate subscribers and binge viewers.

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

Harvard Business

Or it could be indirectly, as Opower does in giving people benchmarking data on energy usage to foster conservation and efficiency. The job of the CEO should be changing the KPIs and shifting the capital allocations to reinforce a culture of collaboration and realign the business for exponential growth.

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The 6 Ways Business Leaders Talk About Sustainability

Harvard Business

For example, in the 1990s, leading businesses like 3M adopted concepts like eco-efficiency, focusing on saving and making money through the better management of materials, energy and waste. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.