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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

That fact becomes apparent when you juxtapose the balance sheet of a company like Microsoft with the balance sheet of a company like Siemens. Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. It’s as simple as that. The challenge?

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Sheer computing power isn’t the key differentiator either, because the predictive future relies less on additional statistical mastication than on a greater diversity of inputs.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

They had surged with the rise of digital camera only to peak in 2012, coming back down as smart phones became widely used. It would enhance its governance structure, improving transparency in leadership appointment, adding more diversity to the board and installing a more effective system for evaluating executive management performance.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

No wonder, then, that executives have placed predictive analytics at the top of the executive agenda since 2012, according to a recent Accenture survey. Sheer computing power isn’t the key differentiator either, because the predictive future relies less on additional statistical mastication than on a greater diversity of inputs.