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How To Ensure Resilience In Challenging Times

Chief Executive

Whether it’s ensuring your staff’s health and safety, transforming company culture, or constantly improving your business processes, being focused on how it impacts employees is a key factor for success. A self-sufficient business model, while somewhat capping growth rates, means the company is better able to determine its own destiny.

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There Is A Roadmap Through Today’s Financial Crunch

Chief Executive

CFOs have the data; you need to massage it, P&L and balance sheets, in ways that people can understand. But capital allocations for digital transformation are the exception. But if you’re not connected to your customer digitally and aren’t using that data for decision-making, you’re falling behind.”

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

So, if your company is beginning to talk about a digital transformation, make sure you ask three questions: What business are we in today? After all, they have many capabilities that entrants are racing to replicate, such as access to markets, technologies, and healthy balance sheets.

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Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Netflix’s digital transformation has led the company to even more dramatic innovations, including original programming such as “House of Cards” and “Orange is the New Black.” In September, Netflix became the first video distribution company to win a major Emmy award.

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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 Review

Third, they’re focused on optimizing what I’ll call the human capital balance sheet, making sure their workforce dollars are creating the right kind of impact in the way that their workforce is showing up day in and day out in the workplace. A lot of companies are facing this digital transformation.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud.

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

Harvard Business Review

” Publicly, CEOs talk about digital transformation, but privately, they wonder if their efforts will be enough. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. When we asked one successful online retailer “How do you compete with Amazon?” Intellectual capital.

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