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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Letting your ETR slip to the benchmark could risk your customers’ trust.

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Consultant Marketing Tech Trap

Jerry Fletcher

It can be the backbone of the sharing of your body of intellectual property or it can delay the release by days, weeks or months or, in some cases years. Engineers and software designers keep trying to simplify things and, in my view, have achieved wonders. Software is a tool. It’s great until it isn’t. Logging in.

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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Security is so much more than purchasing antivirus software and conducting penetration testing. Their job, in fact, depends on it.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. Despite the fact that these companies make money in different ways — Apple makes most of its money on hardware, Microsoft on software, and Facebook and Google from advertising — they do share a lot of similarities.

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Why African Entrepreneurship Is Booming

Harvard Business

The cloud , open source software, cheap computing resources, and ideas from local technology hubs are redesigning Africa. Today, we are seeing companies with core intellectual properties (IPs) emerging out of Africa. Even if the commodity boom returns , these structures will remain because they are homegrown and well-designed.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. And firms operating in more competitive markets incurred approximately $600M higher cost of self-disruption than those in less competitive markets.

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